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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1911
Page
4
William J. McGreer recalls severe rattlesnake bite on his right arm between wrist and elbow near Antelope Oregon. He details intense pain swelling and blue color, doctor draining blood, and long wait before proper medical care after the bite.
A prehistoric skull reportedly dating to biblical times was found at an ancient site. The specimen is described as well preserved though details on location and researchers were not fully disclosed in the fragment.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania Alderman John F Dono hue devises a playful settlement for a goose ownership dispute. He proposes each party to bring a flock and place ganders on opposite sides while the goose chooses. The loser must take the goose home and divide it after killing it, considering the road fare.
A historical note documents Madame Jenny Porchet as a jailer. The record outlines her role within a penitentiary system and notes her duties and status in the era. Further specifics are limited in the fragment.
Bara Meeker, a Northwest pioneer who sixty years ago crossed the Oregon trail, arrives in Chicago behind oxen to advocate marking the old Lewis and Clark route. He has driven his team Dave and Duke from Portland to Washington and back, meeting historical societies along the way.
Pittsburgh man George Kossuth 23 fatally bursts into rage during a fit of violence. He wounds his wife Mary 20 after being tormented by their crying five month old daughter and then turns a gun on the infant’s crib, causing a deadly outcome.
Geneseo New York Robert Hanna reports his hay crop ruined by a decisive swarm and rout of bees from a small haycock. The incident ended with a total loss to the farmer and highlights bee management challenges in hayfields.
New York news reports urgent $600000 appropriation discussion for Letchworth Village at West Haverstraw. Dr. C. B. Little notes first inmate quota of thirty five and plans to form a baseball league with teams from Romnie and Sonyea institutions. Inmates to perform work as part of village development.
In New Orleans a lavish Chinese Masonic funeral for Ching Sing featured robes, banners, and incense. Chinese guards, Grand Master Charley Foo, and assistants led rites with tom-toms, chants, and food offerings at the grave before the casket was sealed and prepared for shipment to China.
In a city yard Martha Quis four years old and her dog Toto were playing when Toto chased a neighbor dog. Martha scratched heat sores till blood, Toto licked the blood, and the child later fell ill with hydro disease. Doctors used chloroform but she died.
Boston police take on fly control claiming success against tens of thousands of insects and aiming to curb an expected flood of hundreds of thousands more. The piece uses dramatic metaphor to describe the challenge as a war against an elusive army of flies.
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