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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1915
Page
4
Article reflects on Booker T. Washington's life and legacy noting his role at Tuskegee Institute and its growth. It urges peaceful disarmament and critiques arms buildup, citing wartime sentiments and a call for US leadership in peace. The piece preserves a period tone and reflects broader social uplift themes.
The Endicott Literary Society has been organized with O. G. Foster as President and Miss Jane Jones as Secretary and Treasurer. Other notes mention the late Cartwright girl, Grandma Wells's illness, and family visits from Earl Wells of Gandy.
Grandma Moore on the sick list and Will Moore at Lou Moores. Ned Fred Perkins threshing for Phil Asche. Miss Kenton with the James girls. Sam Seifford’s Washington callers. Brenners finish corn gathering. Mr Heple in western Kansas seeking a location. Mrs Daugherty visiting daughter Mrs Goldsberry. Mr and Mrs Bon Justis welcome a baby girl. Zweifel family visit from Fairbury to Ed Zweifel. Ben Martin’s buggy accident near Hollenberg injures Mrs Eines but she unharmed. Perry Carrico sick. Flora Carrico visited Helvey over Sunday. Perry Cuthbert baled hay for Russell Troxel. Perle Roderick busking corn for Will Jones. Art and Emil Kenning at John Kenning’s. Greenwood family at Charley Wilson. Charley Compton stacked kaffir corn for John Malady. Clarence Price family at Frank Price home. Walter James family at George Schmidt. Mrs Cuthbert at Breazeal home Endicott. Perle Roderick at Andy Belding home. Norman and Mrs Finteman at Andy Belding. Henry Rader of St Joe came to work for Chas Troxel. Fred Kenning Jr with Mr and Mrs Wil Garrett. Rose Hill school entertainment and ribbon social on November 2. Wilsons at Roy Schell. Rosa at Charles Wilson. Wilson family from California also noted.
Mrs E Q Irwin of New Kensington Pa writes that her son Edwin is subject to croup and she has spent many sleepless hours at night before learning of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and its relief potential.
The article explains tone deafness as an inability to distinguish tunes, citing examples such as Te Kae-beem and Empress Catherine. It notes critics like Rowland EB Prothero and President Grant, discusses possible neural causes, and emphasizes the link between nerves and brain function in musical perception.
Shinebo Won, famed as a Burmese Sherlock Holmes, tracks suspects through jungles and rivers with a sixth sense like capability. He has over 3 000 captures and claims his gaze can read thoughts and see through solid materials, while facing poison attempts and lone jungle perils.
A poetic piece in a newspaper asking what answers a father can give to a child’s curious questions about science and nature. The speaker fears failing to satisfy the child's quest for wisdom and laments limits of learned knowledge.
Willemstad Curaao once a Dutch port features bright tiled houses and a pontoon bridge built by an American consul. The harbor water is bottle green and a sunken vessel remains visible at the dock as a mule drawn tramway serves residents. From Curacao American steamers carry cargoes to Maracaibo a key Venezuelan port for coffee and other eastern Colombian goods.
The passage reflects on how youth shapes perception of time and space, viewing days as epochs and summers as eternity. As age increases, the world and time seem to shrink, with ten years marking a lengthier memory than later years, challenging gratitude for growing older.
A simple improvised writing table is described using a kitchen table adapted to fit a green and white room. Legs were shortened for a convenient height and the top covered with green denim, a blotter case, envelopes, and a pen tray were arranged beneath, with blotter corners trimmed in steam and white chintz.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions numbers like 231,771 and 150,606 and references volunteers regulars and English shows with scattered names and dates. The passage is garbled without a coherent event or context to summarize.
The Milwaukee Journal reflects on learning from failure and success. Observation and experience shape better business practices and wiser adaptation to circumstances and people.
An 1915 letter from Canton Illinois mentions Mr A D Rough Dearth and Brother and recalling a move forty miles north of Steele City. It references fox shooting eight months ago and experiences with a school or lodge in Steele City and a promise not to forget the place or people involved.
Mr and Mrs C O Timerman write from Canton Illinois after moving near Steele City reporting a repaired farm near the public square a broken leg during an April motorcycle spill and their return to writing for The Press they send a dollar subscription and praise Steele City with upcoming electric lights a cinema and possible streetcars
A. D. Hedges died on Monday November 7 in Meridian Idaho while visiting his brother William. He contracted a cold that led to complications. Hedges was an early Fairbury pioneer who first ran a furniture business with his brother Cela before moving to Steele City for several years. His wife died in 1908.
The notice warns that repeated colds weaken the system and raise risk of chronic catarrh, pneumonia, or consumption. It recommends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a trusted, affordable treatment. advertised as costing a quarter and available everywhere.
The obituary notes that the veteran, without children, is survived by a Meridian brother William and two Wisconsin sisters, with three brothers named. He served in the Civil War, was wounded at Gettysburg, and was discharged as an orderly. He held Christian church and G A R memberships and will be buried at Fairbury Cemetery with Masonic honors after services at the Christian church Friday at 2 p m.
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