Local Brevities Reflect Steele City News and War Efforts
Steele City updates show visitors from Fairbury and Lincoln, Navy enlistment at Great Lakes, farm improvements, and frequent train freight for shipbuilding. Third Liberty Loan oversubscribed. local Red Cross work expands with hospital shirts and pajamas. A M E church program praised patriots and school efforts support Uncle Sam.
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Steele City
M. E
Liberty
Clark
Wilfley
France
Supt. Hoff
Uncle Sam
A. H. Gretzinger
Patriotic Meeting Urges Patriotism and Red Cross Support
Residents fill the Steele City church for a wartime program led by Editor Rough and speaker Lloyd Taylor. Red Cross and Y M C A workers urged greater effort, while Joe Davis departs for Camp Funston on military training with promises of future return and victory over the Kaiser.
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Jefferson County
Camp Funston
Steele City
Joe L. Davis
Byron G.henderson
J. W. Roseman
M. E
E. Hamiley
Red Cross Society
Hamley
Sam
E. Hamley
Red Cross
Rough
Makig
Ona. Cassell
Lloyd Taylor
Camp Cody
Mr. Taylor
Uncle Sam
Y. M
Taylor
Bessie Rucker
J. H. Boggess
Joe Davis
Joe
France
Ramona photo play at Majestic Theatre May 8 and 9
A delicate Ramona story teased as a photo play by W H McClune shown at the Majestic Theatre Fairbury on Wednesday and Thursday May 8 and 9. The plot follows Ramona Gonzaga and Angus Phail amid love betrayal and a wrecked wedding, framed as a poignant romance.
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Ramona
W. H.mcclune
Majestic Theatre
Fairbury
Ramona’ Phail
Ramona Gonzaga
Angus Phail
Angus
Adv
Orchid's Drinking Tube Curiosity
An orchid in South America has a unique tubular mechanism that lowers into water to drink and folds back up when not in use. This curious adaptation showcases plants with water-uptake features.
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South America
Spectacles mark rank in early Italian society
Spectacles appeared in Italy around 1285 and were costly at first, worn only by the wealthy or nobility. The large size of glasses signified higher rank, and reports note a few Italian gentlemen with oversized lenses, some described as three inches in diameter.
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Italy
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Lincoln
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Trinidad
Colorado
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J. F. Hoett
Mr Hoett
Bossie
Art Hamley
Kansas City
Art
J. W. Hicks
Fay Clark
Creasey Shoe
J. E. Kerr
Steele City Friends
Jim
M. G. Evans
Maude
Thornberg
Nebr
Hazel Harris
Danbury
Neb
Henry Harris
Hazel
Bruce
Emma
Bessie Hoeft
Omaha
the Methodist
Newton
Main Street
W. L. Curtis
X. P. Wilfley
St. Louis
U. S. Senate
Stone
R. S. Wilfley
Kensington
F. W. Hanson
W. BE
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C. I. Clark
May Cranehan
Telephone Co
E. L. Jenkins
D. B. Cropsey
Jenkins
C.C. Andrews
St. Joe
M.E
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Imp. Co. Hall
Sec
J. D. Minkler
Fern Townsend
Baileyville
Kansas
Clarence Wilson
Axtell
Mrs
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St. Joseph
Reanetta Kennedy
C. C. Daugherty
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Reanetta
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Omana’s
Fur Centre
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