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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1912
Page
5
The production used vast fabrics and findings including gold and silver thread, 100,000 gold sequins, 600 yards of mink trimming, 8,000,000 bugles, 250,000 rhine stones, and 450 people worked fourteen days to complete the costumes for the show.
A letter from Mise Bridget Brannagan to Dunshaughlin district council prompts an ultimatum demanding 69 bachelors in Meath marry within three months or lose their cottages. The scene features several eligible women in the district.
The principality of Lichtenstein between Switzerland and Vorarlberg plans to issue its own stamps, altering the Austro Hungarian postal control. The relief stamps will feature Prince Jobo and reflect Vaduz as capital with about 1100 residents. The 12 member diet governs under a ruler with Vienna court ties.
A village schoolmaster near Moresnet reports being attacked by three men who dragged him into a car, cut his throat, and sucked his blood before abandoning him near the border. The doctor who treated him says the wound appearance supports the strange tale.
A Russian smuggler was shot by Cossacks near the Austrian boundary close to Czernowits as he crossed the frontier. The body lay with the head in Russian territory, trunk on neutral ground, and legs in Austria, complicating removal.
A Paris bootmaker at 26 Place Vendome announces high end service for the wealthy. Each customer receives a new shape, trials are free until satisfaction, and orders start at £4. A minimum order includes ten pairs, sixty pairs of socks, and trunks. £120 deposit as guarantee. cash on delivery for all accounts. The firm also bills itself as the only one to provide marriage trousseaux.
Brick wells, once buried, emerge from the sea near Plage St Gabri el close to Boulogne France. A hotel and bathing station at the location have been destroyed by the advancing tide.
A Michigan inventor patent a new milk bottle with a small opening near the cream line. A removable pin uncaps the hole to let cream flow, while air enters through a sharpened plug jabbed through the top seal. Each plug must stay with its bottle.
A writer from the Missouri Valley Farmer describes a simple barn gadget. He uses a strip of lumber with half inch holes to align with top stanchions and swinging bottom holes. Bolting the strip to the stanchions creates a lever system that closes all stanchions with a single lock.
The piece asserts there is money in dairying despite common belief, requiring a combination of high quality cows and effective management to realize profits.
Advice on calf rearing notes giving bran or ground oats to calves to stimulate early grain intake. Emphasizes that earlier grain feeding accelerates growth and reduces rearing costs, with quicker market readiness as young calves reach consuming grain sooner.
The dairy bull is often neglected since he does not produce milk, yet good dairy bulls are essential for transmitting milking traits. He must be saved and cared for with the same attention as heifers to improve herd genetics and milk production.
A brief note asserts grooming cows pays by improving comfort and farmer self respect, suggesting a well kept herd reflects on the farmer's means and status and an individual can’t afford poor cattle care.
The text outlines bull and herd management practices including housing in a well fenced pasture with a storm shed, mixed grain rations, and feeding schedules. It advises turning cows into the bull’s lot after service, securing the bull during breeding, and feeding to keep milk production steady while avoiding debt to cow dealers.
The Breeders' Gazette article describes a barn with an eight foot clear basement walls and a cement floor. It notes a driveway through the building at ground level, total cost about 3000 dollars with the basement and walls costing about 1000 dollars. The barn houses 28 cows, eight horses, and includes stalls and a harness room.
Illinois station estimates total yearly cost to maintain a good pure-bred sire at 75 dollars including feed care and depreciation. For a herd of 40 cows an extra two dollars per cow is needed to sire each calf with a purebred. The amount is small enough that any dairyman with few good cows can afford a purebred sire.
A dairy expert warns that careless or indifferent milking will ruin cows. The piece urges farmers to engage and improve milker interest to secure best returns from their dairy herds.
The text advises gradually changing calf rations, naming calves from the first to ease training, and feeding five times daily with about three pints per meal. It warns against excessive land, warns against cheap silos, stresses regular feeding and milking, notes udders can cake after freshening, and cautions that cold rain can reduce milk flow.
In Metuchen New Jersey a small mouse in Alderman Kramer’s barn gnawed through paper cylinders of rockets and candles from July 4 causing sparks that ignited some fireworks. The fire department responded and several injuries and damages were noted including a damaged hose, a barbed wire crawl, and a stolen keg from Jim Lawless’ cafe.
Chicago Cook county candidates in the primaries dispensed about 602000 campaign cigars per day totaling 37660000 during the intense vote drive.
Laborers uncover two ancient cannons in Battery Park New York during an excavation authorities cordon the area while inspectors examine the artifacts found in the trench.
New York, A. C. Johnson, secretary of the New York Golf club, was stabbed when acid sprayed from a golf ball into which he had thrust his knife. He mistook the ball for water and may lose an eye.
Los Angeles reports Jefferson Hampton deserted his wife after she refused his request to roam the country in a wagon as a gypsy. Judge Rives granted the wife a divorce citing desertion as the grounds.
A strong west wind blew ice cakes onto the D. and M. tracks near Saginaw Bay wrecking a passenger train. Two crew members were injured.
The big tail girl for musical comedy has passed says Charles Frohman. He declares the next great stage talent is the girl now sought for the production.
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