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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1909
Page
3
A vintage guide notes Dutch Boy white lead trademark protects purity, aiding homeowners. It describes an improved clothespin design allowing multiple units on a line, firmer grip, less soil contact, and easier handling. Also includes a recipe for orange custard and a garlicky olive oil yolk paste with tabasco, oddly phrased.
Instructions describe boiling mashed berries then simmering for fifteen minutes and mashing again. For each quart of juice add half a teaspoon each of mace cinnamon pepper and white mustard. Cook down to a quarter of the original volume then add white wine or cider vinegar to reach desired strength and bottle seal while hot. Premiums advertised include jewelry novelties watches guns skates dolls cameras and more. send name and address to H. J. Teare 1019 Citizens' Building Cleveland Ohio for a trial lot.
Guidance suggests saving prepared mustard glasses for holding soda baking powder cream of tartar and similar items. Print large clear labels or type them to prevent rubbing off during washing, then paste the label inside the glass.
Three-fourths pint grated corn yolk one egg salt pepper beaten white egg. If corn is very dry add a little cream or milk. Drop from a tablespoon into hot fat and fry brown about the size of a large oyster.
A fragmentary note suggests a wire broom cleans a horseradish grater and a can of condensed milk keeps better when the top is left open, admitting air. The text hints at practical kitchen shortcuts and storage ideas.
The Wayne county teachers institute met in Wayne on Monday August 23. Attendance rose from ninety five to over one hundred by week’s end. In Filley Dall’s season, the team won 18 of 21 games, defeating Vesta 15 to 9 in the latest match.
Word has been received that Tarry Goble of that place and Miss Ethel Robb of Great Falls Montana wed a few days ago. Goble was a successful contestant in the Flathead Indian reservation drawing.
Mr and Mrs Michael Falk Jr celebrated their golden anniversary at their West Beatrice home with two hundred guests. They have four children and are grandparents to twenty three grandchildren and three great grandchildren. A fire in Kearney destroyed a barn on West Twenty fifth street and damaged three nearby buildings despite a hard fight by firefighters. A young boy with matches was blamed for starting the blaze.
The new Methodist church at Pilgar was dedicated recently. The building cost about 4200 dollars with 390 seats and new furnishings. 3900 dollars had been subscribed, raised in minutes.
Threshing proceeds as crops show yields from fifteen to thirty bushels per acre for wheat, twenty-five to forty for oats, and twenty to thirty-five for barley. Jensen, worker for R E Roberts, was struck by freight train No 602 near Ar Hneton while crossing, suffering a broken arm as a result of the mishap.
A fire swept through a grain storage shed near Third Avenue and the track at Kearney before firefighters could intervene. Only adjoining buildings were saved, and the shed was consumed by flames.
Beatrice suffers a 50 percent corn crop loss with no rainfall since July 4. A timely rain could save much of the crop, but prospects for rain remain none in sight.
Burlington crews between Kearney and Hastings have a force at work laying telephone lines to serve depots. Telegraph instruments will be discarded and telephone service used exclusively.
Nebraska City Democrats announce county primaries on September 4 to nominate precinct officers and organize local party leadership. The notice specifies the date and purpose for party members to participate in selecting precinct officers.
The twenty first annual Beatrice chautauqua opened Wednesday evening to a large crowd. The Dunbar quartet performed a strong show and Rev. A G Brown served as platform superintendent. Beatrice Military Band will provide music. No day sessions. the assembly runs through Saturday night.
Gloom settled on McKee’s Rocks as funeral processions for slain strikers moved to St Marys cemetery. Debs spoke as hope faded. martial law and a large police presence remained in the strike zone. Death toll rose to eleven with two more expected to die. 66 men were jailed after arrests for riot related charges.
Fire at Dempsey restaurant in Curtis Nebraska caused four merchants to suffer losses. R Dempsey $400 uninsured. Mrs. Jenkins $1,000 uninsured. J W Adams store $40,000 building insured. R Clint $500 stock damage. J W Eidgway building $700. The cause is unknown.
Representatives of labor and fraternal organizations in Fairbury met to initiate a Labor Day picnic to be held Monday September 6. Officers were elected and letters were sent seeking speakers of statewide renown in labor and fraternal circles. Fraternal groups and labor unions from Jefferson and nearby counties will be invited to participate.
L. B. Glavis of the general land office accuses higher Interior officials of pressuring the Cunningham coal land expedition to Alaska. The Interior officials deny outside discussion and await a presidential report while tensions rise between the Interior department and the forestry service.
Ed McConnell of Fairbury Nebraska had unusually lucky results in multiple government drawings. He registered during travel, drew district No 190 in Coeur d Alene area lands valued at about 20 dollars per acre, and his odds appeared to hold across two rounds.
A hayrack overturned on a Humboldt hike killing Valmeda Wilder 12 and Ruth Faucett 16 while injuring fifteen others. The disaster occurred as the wagon halted at a hill to let boys descend, and the team began to back up tipping the load down a seven foot embankment.
Southern Pacific sues the Interstate Commerce Commission as the Supreme Court prepares to review the circuit court ruling from Chicago. Attorneys expect reversal, arguing the commission cannot model every intermediate rate and must let carriers set rates under guiding principles.
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