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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
4
In Hallenberg town notes several residents are listed with short updates. Frank Rose visited from Fairbury on Saturday while Earl Faris conducted a business call at Hanover. A basketball game against Fairbury is set for October 5. L L Earhart returned to take charge of the depot. A surprise party at Reiber's honored Mrs Reiber with about 40 guests and oysters served.
The article notes Washington Kansas grower George Renz returned home with an oats yield claimed as the heaviest in these columns for the year. Details on exact figures are incomplete but indicate a notably high harvest compared to prior reports.
At a Linnean Society meeting in London Professor Paulton read a letter from Sir Paul Scherdin noting that centuries of pigeons nesting atop Strassburg Cathedral have diminished recently. The author argues the decline results from street paving and cleaning around the area, which removed food sources for the birds.
A New York press account describes women in certain South American tribes being barred from public amusements while men host feasts. Women allegedly prepare food and intoxicants, with some tribes practicing polygamy and abducting young girls.
After Saturday October 5 motor car service on the St Joseph and Grand Island line will be discontinued. S. E. Stohr, general freight and passenger agent, cites a general decline in Westbound passenger travel. The Grand Island motor car ran about three years, with a brief winter closure and a June resumption, operating between St Joseph Hanover Kansas and Hanover Grand Island Nebraska. Regular train schedules remain unchanged.
A brief neighborhood notice mentions a barber shop chair being used in the area. Details are limited and the entry appears to reference a local feature or reminiscence without a clear event or date.
A large woman blocked the gangplank in New York delaying a Bremen bound steamer until her husband, declared deserted, was found. A meek man hurried toward the ship with bags and packages and was hauled aboard as the vessel finally sailed.
A Pittsburgh Post report notes that a champion golfer wed last Friday in East Liverpool to a woman famed as a champion bridge player. The couple will live with the bride’s father, described as a champion bricklayer.
Secretary of State Addison Warth certifies a proposed amendment to the Nebraska Constitution, submitted to voters at the November 1912 election. The amendment would set term length and salary for legislators and restrict perquisites, with passage conditioned on a majority vote and gubernatorial proclamation.
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