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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1910
Page
5
Paris police uncover a youth led rescue circle in the St Louis district where 13 year old Louis Berbaud staged a dive and two friends rescued him. They confessed to forming a paying rescue association that rewards members and shared profits, with many members unnamed.
W H Kisinger of Truemans Pennsylvania owns a remarkable animal born to a cat mother with the body and legs of a rabbit and the head of a cat. It hops like a rabbit yet defends with cat claws and can leap six feet to snatch a bat. It has produced three litters of kittens unlike itself and keeps mostly upright seeking alarms.
Old Sevres porcelain draws top price as Joseph Duveen closes bidding at 45000 dollars for a fine vase in a London auction. The piece is hailed for its beauty though some connoisseurs favor other forms of blue and white china.
Four other known specimens of the vaisseau a mat exist beside a $1 500 example. The Windsor castle royal collection holds a grosbleu ground piece dated 1758, the Wallace collection has a grosbleu ground piece, Baron Rothschild’s collection contains a Rose du Barry ground dated 1752, and J Pierpont Morgan owns another. Morgan’s piece, once in the Earl of Coventry’s holdings, features a Rose du Barry and a green ground dated 1759.
During a thunderstorm in Brockton Massachusetts a bolt struck a second floor bedroom where Edward Bolles sat. The heat tore clothing and burned the mattress while the footboard was blown through a window. A gold watch chain attached to a vest was melted and the watch disappeared despite a thorough search of the house and grounds. Part of the roof was lifted and tipped. Wet clothing and curtains were damaged.
A washed ashore object in St. Margaret's bay near Dover England resembles an old man of the sea. It stands 15 inches high and remains unaltered from its discovery, pictured as found without modifications.
John Lebray a cooper at Cincinnati City Hospital has the largest nose six and three quarter inches long and three and a half inches wide. Elephantiasis of the nose causes interference with eating and talking and doctors have decided the nose must be amputated the plan aims to relieve the condition.
A Ward line steamship brought to New York a cargo of 88 five foot bags of dried fresa. The shipment, consigned by a Santa Cruz firm, was sent to Germany to be used as chicken food.
The Indian agent tells of a sudden demand for frying pans among western tribes. Heads of families and youths used the pans as earthen toboggans, sliding down a homemade slope on a forested mountainside. He supplied the last remaining pans and halted new orders.
At a Washington scientific society meeting a member questioned the origin of petroleum as coal supplies dwindle. The Caspian and Caucasus oil deposits challenge animal and vegetation origins, with Mendeleev proposing iron carbide decomposition as a source. If not from life, the supply may be inexhaustible.
A Newark to New York Pennsylvania Railways train carried a father mother and two young children. The man pinched the baby to distract the anxious wife during a Jersey City tube ride causing witnesses to question why he pinched the child rather than the mother.
Mrs Subbube Henry repeats forgetting lard at home while a playful exchange with Bubbubse reveals a creasy memory miscue. The humorous dialogue centers on domestic forgetfulness and affectionate reproach.
The article advocates using waste products to create balanced rations and urges thorough farm practices. It covers poultry hygiene, egg candling losses, horse handling, dairy herd management, beekeeping viability, potato seed stock, and stable care including proper feeding, housing, and disease prevention.
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