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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1909
Page
8
A report notes that a long open sea current runs parallel to the shore and remains offshore, preventing water from piling onto land as seen in the Gulf of Mexico, per the St. Louis Republic.
A Toledo Blade editorial argues the unwritten law fuels mob mentality and is misused to excuse murder. It critiques emotional homicide claims, juries swayed by sensationalism, and politicized gun violence, urging an end to tacit approval of violence.
The article notes Galveston’s sea wall protected the city from floodwaters during a Gulf hurricane, avoiding loss of life and limited property damage. It explains hurricane patterns from the Atlantic and Caribbean, with August and September being peak months, and recalls past storms that impacted nearby Gulf coast regions.
The New York World argues the day of cheap food has not passed. It notes high city prices vs rural scarcity and blames transportation, middlemen, and delivery costs for rising costs. It contends fair farmer earnings would lift workers nationwide.
The essay argues liberal education requires knowledge of current world history, science, and democracy. It urges reading textbooks on chemistry physics geology biology astronomy sociology political economy and world history, plus selective literature. It notes Shakespeare and others enrich but are not essential.
The article recounts LSIE SIGEL a granddaughter of a Civil War general entering Chinese settlement work in New York City. She is found murdered her mutilated body packed in an old steamer trunk with suspicion falling on a local convert and rumored letters suggesting romance jealousy and treachery. The piece raises whether missionary sacrifice justifies risking lives for religious conversion and asks for answers.
A Chicago Tribune summary notes U S forests are shrinking faster than they regrow amid deforestation and fire. It cites a Department of Agriculture pamphlet detailing original forest areas, current scrub lands, and an annual growth of less than 7 billion cubic feet, signaling a need for forestry reform.
The report notes that some groups in Norway may be barred from voting if unvaccinated, amid broader coverage of comparative European and Commonwealth statistics. It also mentions June trade shifts and historic textual curiosities from religious translations.
The excerpt notes that Eskimos are said to avoid ailments like arteriosclerosis and Bright's disease due to pure Arctic air while criticizing Western meat holidays and citing references to Geneva and Breeches Bibles. It also mentions Argentina irrigation bonds, coronation era meat consumption, and a New York preacher's daughter teaching English.
Legal summaries discuss Shum vs Rutland R Co ruling that a killed pedestrian cannot be assumed to have shown due care in absence of witnesses. It also notes appeals on damages for humiliation from loss of an eye in United States Express Co vs Wahl and cites McDermott vs Severe for allowance of recovery when mental suffering follows physical injury. Additional text references Oregon Washington boundary and a boy’s aspiration to lift heavy weight.
A reflective poem fragment contrasts graveyard calm with spiritual hope. It contemplates sleepers in the ground, a shipwrecked sufferer seeking shelter, and the belief of a divine immortal soul awaiting reunion. The text attributes the voice to John Burroughs and Henry Moonitkomers Seréie in a meditation on destiny and eternal life.
Edgar French argues in The World's Work that San Francisco has evolved beyond its old self with fireproof concrete and steel districts, improved architecture, safer Chinatown, and a shift from freewheeling morals. Prohibition pressures saloons, race tracks vanish by law, and frontier spirit yields to eastern norms as California enters a new era. A Cassell’s tale and a note on Charles Sumner’s name conclude this page.
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