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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1909
Page
2
A collage of comic exchanges and jokes from various voices. Snippets include a college note from Mrs Hardapple about trains and cars, a science quip on grammar, airship humor, marriage consent, and wordplay about ink and i dots. Several light banters contrast English American merchants, sea plowing, and humorous exchanges on theater and health.
The fragmentary note mocks plans and warnings about smoking and coupons, with stray phrases about an automobile and future luck. It hints at deflated ambitions and disjointed speech from an unnamed speaker in a casual or humorous context.
A brief, readable fragment notes Sadie’s activities with a reporter describing her as kind to everyone. The passage hints at interactions with reporters but lacks complete context or clarity.
Hungry Higgins recounts begging for two handouts at dawn then being asked to beat a carpet. Dusty Doolittle asks for clarification as Higgins explains she was exhausted from beating a railroad, detailing a rough morning.
A passerby recalls a blind man and a trade move as the cripple man explains selling his business to another and continuing the same line nearby in a brief Pele Mele exchange.
A witty exchange features a preacher described as a poor mathematician for pairing one and one to get a single total, with a listener challenging the claim and prompting the joke about marriage and numbers.
A fragment shows a speaker lamenting a marriage dispute. She condemns a chosen gift of bread over a stone, accusing her partner of forgetfulness and a cruel, twisting rebuke. The line hints at deeper marital tension and unresolved expectations.
A stockbroker describes his father’s age with a pun about stocks and bonds noting he is quoted at 80 but may reach par and rise to a premium value. The remark blends finance jargon with family humor.
A Baltimore Amer item voices ire over persistent pressure and imagined betrayals. The speaker rails against coercive tactics and recalls past influences while resisting alleged enforcement.
A fragment discusses a political plank labeled Only Way of Escape and mentions Willie in a rural Pennsylvania setting. The text references a son or speaker and questions whether someone disoffed or dissed the idea.
An advertising block promotes Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills priced 25 cents. It claims to regulate bowels and indigestion, alleviate constipation, liver issues, and skin eruptions while purifying blood and not causing griping or weakness. Address listed as Munyon's Remedy Co. 63rd and Jefferson Sts. Philadelphia, Pa.
Morristown South Dakota advertisement touts two month olds offering over 30 business places and prime farmland. It invites buyers to a Morristown town elite aketa and urges not to wear dirty glasses, offering antiseptic eye glass cleaner for 10 cents and lens wipe at P O Box 715 Buffalo New York.
Belle Barmor of Greenwood County Kansas announces farms Best corn alfalfa cattle and hay country in West with blue stem pastures. Prices requested from P D Stoughton Madison Kansas. Canada Alberta wheat output 20 million bushels this year and Saskatchewan may match. Port Vancouver could ship grain if facilities existed. Manchuria beans bean cake and oil main products with rising prices. Japan gold standard impacts silver price uncertainty. First bicycle with pedals circa 1846. Reading aloud cited as wholesome. World railroads valued at 27 775 000 090 00.
Fragmentary OCR shows references to a painkiller and security testing, with mentions of wage spending on food and public health notes. It notes whooping cough killing more children under five than scarlet fever, and a France Austria provision on mine rescue work becoming compulsory.
The piece touts Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women during the Change of Life and cites Mrs. Lizzit Holland and Mrs. Andrew Crosse. It also mentions fruitarian diet advocates from England and quotes Dr. Bell on fruit-based nutrition and longevity.
A damaged narrative describes a worker who deteriorated under coffee use after years as a clerk and telegraph employee. He quits meat tobacco and coffee, then starts Postum and reports immediate improvement and restored appetite. He claims overall health recovery and ability to eat freely.
The 1820 letter from Robert Southey to Miss Betham discusses the Betham family, Southey’s London friendships with Coleridge and Southey’s wife’s health trials. It notes their Suffolk return, Edith Lovell and Sars Coleridge marriages, and Southey’s aging view as he sends kind remembrances.
An 19th century note describes a rare plant known as the forbidden fruit or Eve’s apple tree, named diwt kadura. It details its orange exterior, crimson interior, and a bitten appearance while noting its deadly poison and the Mohammedan myth linking it to paradise and Eve’s bite warning against meddling with hazardous substances.
A New York paper notes a fashion trend where men abandon umbrellas in favor of a biscuit colored raincoat with upturned collar and derby, plus a walking stick. Some youths on the avenue go umbrella free even in light rain. The fad is spreading to women who wear sleeved waterproof cloaks with broad brimmed hats and no umbrella.
The passage argues that even a person who can consistently balance a trial ledger may fail to grow a successful Plymouth Rock crop. It links theoretical skill with practical farming outcomes, noting potential gaps between theory and agriculture.
A witty narrator recalls personal ties and social stereotypes. The speaker reflects on expensive tastes and the mismatch between refined society and household duties while noting a former engagement with a Boston girl.
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