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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1922
Page
4
The article notes seven and eight graders finishing their first six weeks of agriculture books and beginning cement study. New student Kenton Hicks joins seventh grade. enrollment now twenty.
This week or next I will have a car load of fine western potatoes grown and shipped by B. V. Miller. If you want potatoes, get them from the car at 85 cents per bushel. Clyde McCurdy.
Sprayed and irrigated apples to sell 3000 bushels two miles northwest of Morrowville at 75 cents 100 dollars and 1.25 per bushel for hand picked apples 50 cents and 75 cents per bushel for wind falls Sale begins October 1 W H Kozel Morrowville Kansas Adv.
Fragmentary notes from a 19th century editorial lament about gender roles and commerce. The piece hints at women paying for goods and a future shift in social norms with medical and economic implications.
A stone marker four miles north of town at the old Oregon Trail crossing on Louis Barber’s farm stands five feet high and three feet wide with a concrete base. Sixty three markers will mark the trail across Nebraska and sixty are already in place.
On Friday evening October 20 a literary meeting will be staged at the opera house with a full program. A business meeting will follow to decide if winter sessions should continue and a 10 cent fee will be charged to defray expenses. Steele City records show strong interest as past entertainments drew large crowds.
Mrs Ray Thomas and children visited Mrs Charley Compton on Saturday. Mr and Mrs Mike Banahan and Alice visited the John Malady home on Sunday. Minnie Malady stayed with Fern Kiskall in Steele City. John Malady and Walter James helped Granvil Williams grade roads. Rolland Wiebe, working in Fairbury, stayed with relatives. Mrs Sandman and daughter Elizabeth from Fairbury visited the Cuthbert family. Alva Belding and family of Tarkio Mo visited relatives for a few weeks.
Betty feels insulted when Bob whistles to gain her attention. The brief dialogue hints at awkward social friction and a misunderstood cue. Further context unclear due to garbled OCR text.
Local notes report a Friday no school due to a stock show. Residents attended the Washington stock show. Miss Lucy Weber visited Mrs. Allie Jones. A cistern is being built for the Diller druggist. Mrs. Fee returned home after a lengthy state trip. The teeter board accident left a boy with a broken arm at school. Ditch work continues south of town. Mrs. J. B. Stack is ill after a stroke. Mr. J. B. and she have taught in Washington state.
Chinese currency uses ingot forms shaped like a woman's shoe with value tied to weight and fineness of silver. The purity and weight are certified by a Chinese official titled Kimu Ku TMLan and Shoe Recorder.
The Farmers State Bank of Steele City Nebraska Charter No 623 reports cash assets totaling 5 615 97 in interest deposits 31 201 02 from Nat banks 2 000 00 in coin and currency 1 622 23 The cashier S WILFLEY swears the copy is correct and true to the report filed with the State Bureau of Banking The attestors G L Wilfrey and Luther Bonham Directors Subscribed October 10 1922 before J W Hicks Notary Public
A Lincoln Star reader’s whimsy notes the Giants celebrating in baseball to match a light pun on luck and aging odds. The column weaves in farm mishaps, rising paper costs, and a sudden baby boom among local threshers.
The text notes a shift to cooler weather with a light frost marking autumn onset. It mentions winter chill and ice forming on outdoor water vessels, alongside practical notes on setting type and printing, urging one-sided paper use and a firm pen or pencil grip for legibility.
The exchange depicts a speaker calling a woman deaf and ugly with false hair and teeth while another character comments she is also deaf, revealing crudely insulting language about appearance and disability.
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