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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1912
Page
3
A husband returns home tired to find his wife gently pressing him about a letter. He admits it was addressed to him though he hadn’t noticed. The ensuing moment becomes a humorous exposure as the truth lands in a light domestic trap.
Dialogue shows Miss Philis requesting payment for laundry while the laundress’s daughter explains the mother urged her to come tonight fearing the laundress might be gone by morning. The girl defends paying the bill as proper behavior.
A New York Press remark notes Sir Frederic Treves as one of history’s great surgeons who operated on King Edward with calm efficiency likening the royal procedure to slicing an apple. The anecdote underscores Treves’s famed steadiness in high pressure cases.
A relative questions New York underworld but Mrs MecGuchey casually claims she saw it and adds that she finds subway systems in large cities neat and interesting.
A fragment from a late night exchange shows Mrs Klatter and Mrs Klubmann debating a sign of confusion and political arguments. The dialogue hints at social friction and the cost of discourse in elections.
Reported mobilization of suffrage demonstrators in New York and Washington as passions rise amid wartime tensions. Earlier notes describe federal actions with revenue cutter Unaiga sailing maiden voyage to Asian shores to safeguard American lives and property during unrest.
Fifteen thousand cheering women and men celebrated with a brilliant parade Saturday night through Fifth Avenue, marking the recent addition of four states to the woman suffrage movement. Bright hotel canyon lights highlighted the celebratory route.
Washington reports a corn yield of 3,169,137,000 bushels far surpassing any previous total. The crop’s value to farmers on November 1 reaches 1,850,776,000 dollars with total value of major crops around 4,171,134,900 dollars. Including cotton tobacco and others, aggregate farm product value exceeds 5 billion dollars.
Massive tourants and streams of flaring vermillion lights stretched for miles as ardent votes for women supporters guided the procession. Ten suffrage states were represented by women leaders in the equal rights movement.
Rev Paul Leinach said 15,000 Americans worship the sun and a similar number accept Buddha and other oriental deities in Boston Pa. Ebensburg WA reports 15 men overcome by gas in the Northern Pacific tunnel under the Cascade crest with nine rescue units and doctors sent from Cle Elum and Auburn.
Washington reports a direct wireless connection has been established between Colon and the new Arlington wireless station spanning 1,780 miles. Colon answered a message by radio with the phrase Get you fine.
The report claims Turkish authorities will destroy St Sofia Mosque to block Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria from attending mass there, should he proceed with his threatened visit.
London reports Constantinople losing hope in Turkish resistance at Tohatalja Mine. Greek forces seize Saloniki after a fierce campaign. It remains unclear if 15,000 Turkish troops evacuated or surrendered, but evacuation is believed.
The European situation is viewed as serious by unofficial circles as cabinets meet at the Fiysel palace. President Falleries and Premier Poincare read dispatches from French ambassadors in St. Petersburg Vienna and other capitals. A long discussion followed with no public statements amid obscurity about major powers' intentions.
The state teachers association annual meeting closed Friday with a Mendelssohn society concert. The final business session passed resolutions including electing officers by referendum, adopting a seven months term, and removing politics from schoolhouse supervision and superintendent appointments.
Seventeen sailors were sentenced to death and 106 others to four to eight years at hard labor by a Sebastopol naval court for mutiny. The proceedings aimed to promote friendly US China relations through the China Society of America, recently formed with leaders including Prof. John Bassett Moore of Columbia University.
A Modern Woodmen insurgent committee in Lincoln and the state, led by Walter Leese, will request Governor Aldrich to convene a special legislative session to pass laws shielding Woodmen and other fraternal societies from outside head camp actions. The insurgents met with 448 present. John L. Sundean spoke as principal speaker. Washington reports indicate 32 states have ratified the proposed income tax amendment, four rejected, 36 needed. several states including Delaware Florida Louisiana Massachusetts New Jersey New Mexico Ohio Pennsylvania Vermont Virginia West Virginia Wyoming have not notified ratification or rejection.
A crowded day report covers postal strain near Princeton with extra help, a wedding in Dayton between Booth Tarkington and Mrs Temple Robinson, a deer killing by Clark Griffith in Helena, a Nashville waterworks failure, and Balkan casualties totaling about 190000 with officials weighing the toll.
A collage of Nebraska items reports revival meetings at Wymore Methodist church led by Evangelist Freud A. of Kewanee, plus a fatal shooting near a farm, Halloween damage costs in Lincoln, and a two week Catholic mission in Alliance. Also noted are a failed gas suicide attempt, a moving picture exhibition in Diller, fair preparations by Wyrre volunteers, and the State Teachers association meeting in Omaha with 5 700 attendees. Other items include a missing Lincoln boy, new Seward Burlington station opening, Grace Eliison sailing for China, a York telephone merger vote, prairie fire near Stuart, first corn heard in Omaha market, rising corn yields, Greek labor impacts on railroads, a hay stack blaze in Hastings area, postal savings bond deadline, Deshler power plans, Kamensky statue fund drive at the university, a Crab Orchard telephony accident, and Aurora Burlington depot opening.
Miss Lyon is the only woman in New England living in a house she built with her own hands. She belongs to a 40 member farm club near Westwood that holds $1,000 in property and about 70 acres of land. Each member owns one acre, with the rest held in common for rental to members seeking larger farming interests. Paradoxical misfortune follows as locals remark there is nothing but soft drinks in the place and the subject laments hard luck.
A spoof piece from Old Spinney mocks stump speeches with clipped gibes about government pay and daily routines. It parodies wartime railings and social chatter, weaving jests about breakfast tables, phonographs, and married life into a chaotic, satirical flavor.
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