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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1915
Page
3
The article surveys modern construction shifts toward cement use and fire resistant materials. It highlights crushed slate surfaced asphalt shingles as a beauty upgrade, noting eight inch wide slates exposed four inches, natural colors, and no painting required. It cautions buyers to choose guaranteed, honest manufacturers.
The article urges improving home grounds for health and character. Emphasizes ample, well drained lawns, massed flowers, grouped trees, and pergolas. Recommends away from overemphasis on future land, values present comfort, and stresses tidy farm surroundings and sturdy fencing.
Garden hints urge planting perennials and fresh seeds when possible. Use Bordeaux mixture for milkweed rust and aphid control. tobacco water kills chrysanthemum aphids. Apply weekly wash to roots, dust rose bushes with ashes, and sow annuals like phlox candy tuft and poppy for a fine fall display.
A verse praising the hand of labor and its role in driving crafting, industry, and progress. It extols workers across mills foundries mines and fields and urges steadfast honor, integrity, and equal worth for all who labor under the guiding brain.
The piece surveys definitions of labor from Webster to Secretary Wilson and Powderly, then recounts Paul in Ephesus and Demetrius's riot over Artemis profits. It links early Christian preaching to a sympathetic strike example, noting the scene in the theater as a historic labor disturbance two thousand years ago.
A wartime editorial urges Americans to use Labor Day to focus on the future after Europe’s war. It predicts long readjustments in commerce and labor, stresses self sufficiency, and calls for proactive action to grow prosperity regardless of war duration. It praises Yankee confidence and urges study of American economies.
The article argues a shift from aristocratic privilege to a merit based ethic of labor and community service. It notes public demand that income be earned through valuable contributions and highlights the rejection of passive wealth and questionable practices like stock watering and melon cutting. It concludes society will pay for true value, not status.
A short woman asks for a hassock in a cafe while her tall husband orders. The waiter, puzzled, repeats hassock and finally asks if the lady wants it broiled or fried, causing a red faced moment of miscommunication.
An old promotional text explains using Cuticura Shaving Soap to prepare a lather with hot water and a brush, then shave and apply Cuticura Ointment after shaving. It markets one soap for shaving, shampooing, bathing and toilet, with free samples by postcard request. Also includes stray clipped anecdotes about a passenger and a mother in law.
A jumble of quoted remarks covers marriage humor servant pay disputes and rural life. It references a bride and a practical joker, a biscuit visit, a hammer, three months of unpaid servants, and a note on hay scent and a harp versus trombone, all reflecting light, scattered social chatter.
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