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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1911
Page
2
The Turkish ambassador to Acting Secretary Adee denounced Italian troops in Tripoli for barbarities against women and children. He urged U S influence to halt acts violating warfare rules and The Hague Convention, a matter presented in verbal and written form to the state department.
In Pedro, nineteen bandits attacked the town. Residents fired from houses, three bandits were killed, two wounded and captured. Bandits were repelled after a long exchange of gunfire with hundreds of shots fired.
The men and religious forward movement began with leaders Sepee 2 eats. and Kansas City, Kan. outlining five campaign aims. The plan focuses on Bible study evangelism social service mission work and work for boys as core objectives.
In Junction City Kansas bones believed to belong to a hitherto unknown gigantic race were found on John No land’s farm. The remains were dug from a cabin roughly thirty feet in diameter and five feet high, seemingly buried in a rough stone arched tomb.
Washington reports Taft back in the capital after two months away. Stimson backs school military training. Coleman dies on a train while headed home to St Louis. Treasury notes show a rare post office profit and postal savings bond adjustments. Shanghai revolutionaries seize control as cholera erupts in India. Local crimes and international incidents fill the week’s highlights.
Summary notes a campaign by anti-suffrage groups in Illinois. It mentions broader unrest and several domestic incidents including thefts, fires, and accidents across different states and regions, with varied financial and human impacts.
Secretary of State Wait reports eight new typhoid cases at Beatrice institute for the feeble minded after a visit from the secretary. A nurse and several workers are ill while the old water supply has been removed but some pipes remain in use. Plumbing replacement is hoped to halt the epidemic.
Secretary Henry Seymour and the state board of assessment released the abstract of property valuations by class. The statewide total rose from 412,138,607 last year to 415,670,075 this year, with a history of annual increases since the 1903 revenue law adoption.
Hastings inspector R D McFadden named W M Sloan of Columbus as deputy. A F Robinson of Hastings was previously appointed. McFadden oversees inspecting 978 Nebraska hotels and relies on traveling salesmen due to limited legislative funding.
Secretary W. R. Meller deposited 1225 dollars with the state treasurer as fees under the stallion registration law. The sum brings total fees collected to 9000 dollars in the months since the new law started. Fees are withdrawn to cover registration board expenses and salaries.
The October receipts for the secretary of state show unusually low totals across key revenue sources. Artisen of Incorporation yielded 2,584.49, certificates 54.57, corporation tax penalties 330.00, and occupancy taxes 60.00 with other items repeating small figures for the month.
The Nebraska state railway commission will argue before Special Examiner Smith of the Interstate Commerce Commission for a coal rate reduction on the Burlington route from producing points in the Wadsenburg district Colorado to Nebraska stations west of Hastings. If granted the reductions would be 25 cents per ton.
Secretary Clark Parking denies plans to retire from the railway commission to run for office next year. He states he has bought the Aurora Republican and will return to the newsroom for business reasons only.
Leaders of the Fifth district push W. J. Furse, now railway commissioner, as fusion candidate. Requests sent from multiple parts of Nebraska to secure his congressional run amid party negotiations.
Citizens holding general fund warrants face rapid sale as only 20,713.41 remains before brokers buy at discounts. State Treasurer reports warrants, to be registered, will pay 4 percent interest and proceeds must be realized quickly across Nebraska within weeks.
Carrie Le land, a Lincoln dressmaker, sues the estate of M M Coad for 500 dollars claiming he sold mining stock with a refund promise if dissatisfied. In Dodge County Lancaster County, Thomas Beale, 60, cashier of the State Bank of Waverly, shot himself at home, leaving a note that his accounts were correct and his act due to failing health.
Adams County reports oats rising from 22 cents to 50 cents per bushel due to a short crop and scarcity. Farmers and buyers face higher feed costs as oats become the stock feed choice.
Farmers in Jefferson County fear hog cholera as losses mount. Henry Traum, a farmer near Fairbury, reports the slaughter of his eighty head of Poland China hogs, illustrating the severity of the outbreak and its impact on local herds.
John Bos cerman and Ike Stansbery discovered a young unconscious woman beneath a haystack cover on the Burley Young farm half a mile south of Superior. Restoratives were given, she woke and could talk but would not reveal her identity.
Burt County resident Warren Everett of Lyons bought two mule hoofed pigs claimed to be cholera proof. The swine, traced to the South Sea islands, are said to resist cholera and remain healthy when kept with infected hogs.
E H Oberg of Lincoln appointed by the General Conference Committee of the Seventh Day Adventists to oversee publishing work in China. He will be stationed in Shanghai to supervise the empire wide effort.
A. L. Case was arrested by Omaha police upon information from Sheriff Kennedy of Broken Bow. He was brought to Custer County but later released after being identified as the wrong man.
Frank Newby, a farmer north of Tobias in Saline County, shot a large American eagle. The eagle measures nine feet two inches from wingtip to wingtip.
Two men captured at Central City and brought back by Sheriff West pled guilty before County Judge Coufal to robbing the central merchandise store of 3 J Matone at Abe. The confession confirms the charge and resolves the case locally.
A clever thief or thieves are blamed for taking forty pairs of shoes from the general store of the Towrtelot Barber company in St. Mary. The shoes were removed from boxes and the boxes were left closed.
Mrs. James C ott wife of the Republican candidate for Congress gave birth to a baby girl last evening. The community regards the arrival as a genuine mascot for Elliott and the county.
The new postal savings bank is now to begin operations at Sutton, offering savings services to local residents.
The advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound from Lynn Massachusetts. It claims thousands of testimonials from women cured of various female ailments including inflammation and prostration and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham.
Fragmentary church and quip lines mention Cain and humor about boy scouts in a Sunday School setting. The text shifts to advert style phrases for Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup and Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, listing teething relief and digestive benefits as a string of product blurbs.
A shipwrecked crew keeps hopeful with a sardonic captain remarking no danger as a moving pictures crew arrives soon to film their rescue sequence. The banter highlights the era’s lighthearted survive-and-film mindset.
A brief note highlights the versatility of horses across age groups and forms, emphasizing their varied roles and abilities in equestrian activities. The item foregrounds general descriptions without specific events, names, or dates.
A city cousin staying at the farm proposes a bridge party, but the country folk balk at the idea fearing pneumonia and the inconvenience of a rickety bridge far away. The tale captures rural humor and wary wit in winter.
A Kansas City Journal report recalls a summer event where Senator John F. Heasin and laughter of Manhattan joined a minister for a motor boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. After the trip the boatman quoted an exorbitant bill, prompting the minister to remark he understood why people walked on water.
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