23 Oct 1909
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1909
Page
1
The speaker lists chores to do despite the heat including hoeing corn, raking drives, mowing lawns, feeding horses, painting fences, cleaning stalls, fixing leaks and roofs, and tidying the hen coop. The text laments hot weather and ongoing nuisance phones interrupting work. Eighteen holes with you is mentioned in a casual aside.
A furnace hand named Bob Jones, six feet two, famed for skill, risks his life at the furnace pit to rescue a colleague. Fire rages, a water blast cools metal, and Bob bears a second blistered man from danger, sparking town talk and a widow’s cautious gratitude.
A lengthy account recalls French polities and theatre protests at the turn of the century. The piece mentions M. Clemenceau, Lissagaray, and government bans on performances amid public uproar, alongside a modern note on Turkish women and an American Philadelphia landmark restoration.
The article outlines rigid customs and laws restricting Spanish women. It describes reliance on marriage, family protection, and legal constraints on control of property. It notes public opinion opposes female education and rural towns lag in women’s access to schooling and work.
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