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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
3
In Philadelphia a professor deciphers ancient Mesopotamian tablets and translates an epic about Enkidu, a half barbarous chief tain redeemed by a woman’s love, while the world outside remains filled with war and woes.
A wartime notice declares Indian regiments will be recruited and deployed at the front. The piece notes German forces will face harsh responses as Indian troops engage, suggesting intimidating battle prospects ahead. It observes that men aiming for distinction often fade into the crowd.
Excerpt follows Kazan the wolf dog and Joan as they flee toward home. Pierre Radisson lies dying while Kazan defends and guides the pair through a brutal trek northward aided by Gray Wolf. Joan battles frost and wind, carrying the infant and driving the sledge toward the Little Beaver river in a race against death.
Dawn light falls as Joan tends a hungry baby and Hier wakes with its cry. The shadowy figure of her father rises cautiously beside them in a tense scene from chapter IX.
Commercialized dried buttermilk debuts as a new feed component. The first carload reached Chicago for a company controlling 20 million pounds yearly output. It will be used in special mixing feeds for erpoul.
Druggist Herbert Maxwel d writes that customers highly praise a kidney remedy. The ad urges sending 10 cents for a sample and a booklet from Kilmer and Co. It notes bottles sold in drug stores and references a promotional testimonial from Plymouth Massachusetts.
An old newspaper advertisement touts Cuticura Soap for night and morning baths and Cuticura Ointment for pimples and dandruff. It offers a free sample by postcard, with the product sold nationwide. The copy includes wartime economy banter and a jokey reference about last year’s fat.
Cincinnati authority promotes freezone as a painless method to remove corns and calluses. A small bottle, inexpensive at any drug store, promises to soften and lift away hard or soft corns or calluses without irritating surrounding skin. If unavailable, ask your druggist to order it.
A reflective line on fate shaping life with metaphor about taking a bit from the top. The phrase suggests inevitability and the idea that opportunity exists at the upper edge of effort. No specific events or people are referenced.
In a garbled exchange, a manager and Mr Brastue discuss avoiding a blast after a gasoline soaked worker fears not being good enough for heaven. The dialogue hints at a near accident in a garage named Yersur and a self described unsafe condition.
A damaged notice fragment describes Allen's Foot-Ease as a foot bath product. It mentions relieving feet and hints at a postal or address detail, but the text is incomplete and unreadable for full context.
The exchange notes that gunboats were named after birds and argues airships deserve similarly suggestive night themed names. The dialogue contrasts old naval practice with aviation naming conventions.
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