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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1912
Page
3
A cluttered extract recounts a phrenology lecture with a boy on stage, a courtroom quip about a pickpocket’s fine, and a tale from Young’s Magazine. It continues with a notable answer praising a farmer’s wife and ends with an anecdote on nervous trouble and Grape Nuts aiding digestion.
State capital notes discuss Lincoln city proposals to fund downtown campus expansion with $100000 yearly state money, city buying ground via bonds to gift to the state. Also debates Oregon plan signatures for United States Senate ballots and the timing of signing statements.
Citizens of Monroe file with the state railway commission to force Union Pacific to use the spelling Monroe with an O rather than the altered form. A local commercial club backs the change and urges immediate action by railway authorities.
A fragile copy of Fremont’s first daily paper, folded in a pasteboard spool box for 38 years, has been shown at the state historical society. Secretary Paine secured it from N W Snails during the Monument unveiling in Fremont. The item was given by the editor before the Board of Irrigation.
Grim notes from Lincoln to Fremont report crimes, dinners, church milestones, and courthouse plans. A Bloomfield resident dies in Chicago after cancer surgery while allies discuss railway policy and post office hours. Greyhound entries, a new St Mathews cornerstone, farm yields, and Obits color a broad statewide roundup.
A rainy day game uses a heap of 100 matches and a target series 1 12 23 34 and so on. The first player aims to reach a multiple of eleven plus one, ensuring the opponent cannot win. The trick rests on forcing sums to hit the sequence while counting backwards from 12.
An old trick details spinning a handkerchief on a whirling stick. The secret lies in inverting the needle end by a quarter inch so the needle point passes under the cloth. When caught, the handkerchief spreads and spins at the end of the stick.
Sir James Donaldson of the University of St Andrews urged the British Association for the Advancement of Science to adopt phonetic spelling. He argued current English spelling is absurd and that phonetic systems used by French German and Dutch nations would ease learning for foreigners and save education time. He criticized compositors and printers for shaping spelling and called for reform.
A tricky finger puzzle describes bending the second finger of the left hand forward and attempting to move the second finger out between the joined first and third fingers without separating them or using the thumb or any other help. The riddle showcases a clever manual maneuver.
A collection of short wordplay puzzles and jokes. Questions cover measurements clothing humor and puns about coal rings shoes and roosters with concise punchlines. The playful items offer quick reasoning and linguistic twists typical of old newspapers.
An advertisement asserts chronic constipation ties to catarrh and promises permanent relief after treating the catarrh. It promotes Peruna-Manalin and La-cu-p from the Peru-na Company of Columbus Ohio and urges inquiries if a retailer lacks stock.
Mrs Anna A Lew recalls two year battle with a spreading itchy leg rash that resisted many salves before using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She reports rapid improvement within weeks and no scarring. The ad invites readers to request free samples and the Skin Book from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
In this fragment appears sales language and inspirational lines about health remedies and personal effort. The text promotes Cole’s Carbolisalve as a cure for catarrh and includes exhortations to persevere, with quotation marks and fragmented phrases reflecting a period ad style.
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