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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1911
Page
7
A Tama resident describes six years of illness with stiffness fatigue and body aches. After using Dean's Kidney Pills the pains eased and the person felt better, noting significant relief from ongoing symptoms.
Dialogue shows a couple humorously debating domestic life with bold affection and a playful clash over bread versus kisses as a future married pair. The fragment captures intimate tone and light banter.
Mrs Selby praises Cuticura Soap for her baby noting no sore or chafing and claiming it helped win a prize in a baby contest. She observes many homes show poor soap burns on babies and recommends Cuticura, saying mothers often report her recommendation helped. Signed G. A. Gelby, Redondo Beach, Jan 15, 1911.
Private Secretary notes a claimant named McCrankerson seeking a consulship. He insists he is the sole man not yet named as a governor candidate in [it aois], prompting questions about his political claim and status.
A Farm and Home note describes a simple seven by four foot corn storage rack. Built with inch boards and cross laths, wires spaced 2½ inches create per ear pigeon holes. Center wires prevent movement and each division can be numbered for ear testing.
The largest wheels ever used on a tractor are described, featuring feet in diameter and a bearing surface 18 inches wide. Designed for use on soft terrain, they were showcased to demonstrate extreme traction and stability.
The text appears garbled but indicates prizes awarded at two events, a critique and a fair. No clear names, dates, or organizations are readable to confirm specifics.
An article notes farm sizes shrinking from 146 to 188 1910 and shares a farmer's winter feeding routine for breeding geese. The writer advocates cabbage as winter feed, raises carp for feeding, and emphasizes range grazing when snow allows, while finding no advantage to various seeds over corn.
The Irish potato seed should be dug before full ripening to ensure vigorous growth. Home plan to let seed potatoes decay in autumn reduces vigor and yield.
Apple trees thrive when planted two rods apart in all directions, ensuring ample room for spread. Some upward-growing varieties need less horizontal space, and may be set 26 feet apart.
The article discusses choosing good seed corn and notes the cost parity between producing poor and good ears. It argues that increasing yield is economically sensible since labor and expenses per acre scale with output, suggesting higher yields in seed selection.
The article describes stretching wire between posts using one top wire and nails, noting a single person can stretch nearly as much as two with nails. It compares protein costs in cottonseed meal to corn, arguing dairy farmers lose money feeding corn if cottonseed meal is available, and suggests alternatives if not.
Readable sections advise planting practices for corn and millet, seed corn selection and drying, and methods to improve soil porosity. The text mentions using gasoline engines on binders, burning quack grass roots, and careful manure hauling on grass land, reflecting agricultural tips from a historic source.
A stray paragraph recalls a misheard line about a wife’s voice from a feckless chat near Putnam, with references to faceless dyes and a bemused neighbor who cannot catch the words. A brief tale touches on listener miscommunication amid social chatter in a late edition snippet.
A humorous dialogue notes the Venus of Milo explaining her lost arms and a joke about drying tan. The piece ends with a playful exchange about shopping and exchanges, presented in a light archive humor tone.
A dialogue argues that women can endure hardships but cannot become equals to men by nature. One speaker claims constitutional limits, while the other asserts women may endure as stoically as men but will wait for change, even if it advances only minimally.
A quip contrasts reading Homer with football speed. A coach quips about a player who struggles with The Iliad yet reliably runs ten yards around the left end, while a quote notes pessimism stems from experience.
The piece notes two national sanatoria for tuberculosis treatment run by labor unions specifically the International Typographical Union and the Printing Pressmen consumptive employees for a limited period. It also mentions support from tribute funds aiding these facilities.
In a western city primary class the teacher asks who can name the birthday. A timid girl answers as an older girl suggests judgment rests on accomplishments. The remark follows a line about marriage being a contract and contract jumpers.
A stir ring circular issues to the coffee trade prompts a debate over coffee’s future amid counter campaign claims by cereal coffee advocates. The piece denounces Pegrum and cites studies of coffee’s effects, referencing reduced consumption and a shift to Postum as a healthful alternative endorsed by roasters and pure food observers.
A brief local note from Battle Creek Michigan outlines a cereal company titled There’s a Reason by Postam Cereal Company Limited. The item highlights corporate identity and regional business presence in Michigan.
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