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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1914
Page
2
The article recounts remarks by Anne Steele, an English sevei ist, claiming writing success in New York. It includes a Sioux Indian asking to buy a gun from a reservation storekeeper who jokes about not selling a gun that could kill soldiers. The dialogue hints at racial tension and violence.
A Jackson Missouri notice recounts a ten month old girl’s severe body eruption. After trying various ointments, the family reports immediate sleep relief and full recovery within a week following use of a marketed Soap and Ointment sold worldwide. Signed by August F. Bartels on November 25 at Cuthara.
Fragmentary line suggests reflections on what people see in each other and mentions scars. No identifiable persons or organizations.
Weetern Newspaper Union News Service reports Mexico City officials led by Jetava Ruiz, acting foreign minister, complain to South American mediators that American troops are landing at Vera Cruz and war material moves violate the armistice. Mediators will present representations to President Wilson. The Mexican foreign office thanks the mediators for prudence and impartiality. Secretary Bryan notes Huerta’s note claims violations and says a reply will be made.
Desperate clash reported as Juarez battle rages in Tampico. Fires from burning dwellings and oil tanks light the town while rebels fire heavy guns against Gen Amacio Morelos Zaragoza’s federals. Americans are said to be evacuated aboard a U S ship.
The initial war memorandum outlines expenses for Vera Cruz and Mexican border troops. The largest item, 1 485 074 dollars, covers army transportation, plus 946 241 dollars estimated earlier. Additional requests include 406 825 dollars for mounts and equipment to meet authorized strength.
Investigation found two German ships loaded with munitions for Huerta bound for Puerto Mexico on the eastern Mexican coast. Secretary Bryan said arms aboard Kronprinzen would be returned to Germany, avoiding landing near Mexico City amid tense diplomatic warnings.
General Carranza, entering Torreon to a cheering crowd, credits the United States with aiding the constitutionalist cause and even echoes Villa in praising Washington. The report notes hopes that U S arms and ammunition will soon resume.
War department officials receive a cipher from General Funston in Vera Cruz warning of Huerta’s possible collapse and potential anarchy. Villa urges lifting the arms embargo as constitutionalists push for pacification while Tampico braces for a final assault with naval observations noting rebel artillery and urgent evacuation of foreigners.
Washington officials weigh whether General Huerta approved the near fight at the Vera Cruz water station as the president and advisers express cautious belief that he did.
Warnings from the state board stress strict quarantine to prevent hog cholera outbreaks on farms. Precautions include avoiding hog lots near highways or streams, restricting visitor access, cleaning shoes with cresol, and separating sick hogs while burning carcasses daily. Notify the state veterinarian if cholera appears. serum is distributed through the state agricultural college, not directly to farmers.
The state museum in Omaha gains a rich consignment from R F Gilder featuring decorated pot rims bone and stone tools shell spoons bone needles punches arrow heads and stone axes. The collection highlights digging tools from buffalo shoulder blades and sandstone arrow shaft smoothing tools, enhancing the university anthropology holdings.
Second annual beef producers meeting scheduled at the Nebraska University Farm in Lincoln on Friday May 22. Winter fed experimental cattle will be on exhibit and visitors can inspect lots of cattle and rations, with year’s results announced. Forenoon will cover grounds experiments and livestock. program resumes at 1 p.m. Last year’s event was a season highlight.
Actor James K. Hackett narrates of a merchant who learns of a friend's death and visits the widow to offer sympathy. He asks for a memento of the husband, and the widow implies a test of memory and sentiment. The piece also reflects on words as symbols of thought and the link between thinking and speaking.
A Scottish orchestra replaces its regular trombonist with a brass band amateur due to illness. After the first show the substitute asks how he did and is told he did fairly, to improve next night. He replies in broad dialect that the music isn’t familiar tonight but will be tomorrow night, and none of the Oddi e will be heard.
A famed hunter recalls in a lecture how India makes billiard balls and muses on the surprising skill of animals. The fragment hints at a conversation about training great beasts for delicate work and a remark about a lady seated nearby.
A fragmented note cites medical discoveries favoring men around forty for creative work. It asserts forty four marks a poet’s peak, implying aging advantages in literary achievement while hinting at shifting notions of youth and talent.
Charles F. Murphy compared the Liberal government to the anti physical force party in a discussion on home rule. He recalled Ulster’s boast and the conference in Dublin where patience met violence before any outcome emerged.
A three year old boy walking with his grandfather points out the moon appears without a lamp, noting in a solemn tone that it does not look like it does at night. The anecdote captures a child’s literal view of the celestial body.
The passage recounts Giussopangelo Fonzi as an early inventor of dentures. He began practice in Paris in 1798 after gaining fame for treating Lucien Bonaparte, earning a French Academy of Science medal. He fitted notable figures including Russia’s empress and King Ferdinand VII of Spain, who rewarded him with an annual pension.
Nine hundred young French women petition the war minister to let them join the army in auxiliary services. Patrice quips they could use powder and arms without enlisting.
Native belief centers on a silk covered wood idol tied to a wire. Priests pull the string to induce moving gestures seen as the god’s life. Houses of wood shelter the idol which is kept horn shaped by pins.
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