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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1922
Page
4
A garbled excerpt discusses the moon's influence on tides and a claim about the nearest bird species. It references the American Forestry Magazine and comments on plumage and filament structure while noting the slow rate of Earth rotation.
Henry Ahren ds announces candidacy for county commissioner in the 1st district subject to democratic electors in the November election. Probate notice sets November 22 1922 as bar date for claims against the estate of William H Harris with creditors meeting November 23 1922 in Jefferson County Nebraska Court.
In Jefferson County Nebraska Receiver R S Willey appointed for Endicott State Bank must file claims by September 14 1922. Order requires posting notice on bank door and publishing in Steele City Press for three consecutive weeks prior to the deadline. Deted at Fairbury Nebraska by Judge Leonard W Colby.
A literary fragment presents nature imagery and seasonal change with lines about meadows, gardens, birds, and harvest. It shifts to news notes: Mrs. Chas Hunnicutt and Miss Elma Bloom return from Fairbury hospitals. Then a W C T U convention announced for Fairbury September 14 with a noon basket dinner. Lincoln Journal ad touts records and a $1 trial offer through January 1st, promoting daily and Sunday editions at affordable yearly rates.
A Detroit Free Press report notes a New York man entangled in a court case after a pocket pick incident. The piece frames going to court as a losing gamble regardless of outcome.
Report from Diller Record details an incident where three men rammed a car to threaten a couple, splintering a tooth during a mouth strike on Stucker, with Mrs. Stucker assaulted. Police arrested the trio, releasing one the following morning.
The first Jefferson Co Sunday School picnic drew about 3000 attendees at Fairbury City Park with 36 schools invited and 20 sending strong delegations. Bower school won the rural attendance banner with 119 percent turnout and also beat Fairbury 8 to 2 in baseball. Mennonite school won the song banner. Steele City sent 100 form of its enrollment. Columbia district jotted an annual platinum output of 30,000 troy ounces.
In Russia a passport is a valued asset used to trap marriages before crossing borders. Foreigners bribe to secure a wife, escorting them toward Poland Romania or Germany where the couple parts. Turks reportedly can take four women, while a Baku case shows a husband’s claim over a wife after a love-driven custody dispute.
A New York state health department bacteriologist contracted an infection from a rat she examined while researching the germ of epidemic jaundice. The incident provides the first direct evidence that microbes carried by rats can infect humans.
In Morelos Mexico the government has dispossessed 22 landowners depriving them of animals and leaving men to plow fields. The report notes widespread shortage of horses hindering farming and daily labor across the state.
Mr Grampeon notes the proprietor of a summer hotel advertises common benefits and adds a new pledge. He claims radio outside will be strictly prohibited, a condition that interests him.
Under English law it is legal to play card games for money in a private house if the games are games of skill such as whist or poker. The text notes that certain circumstances may still breach the law.
Thirty six students are enrolled in the high school with fifteen freshmen. Ninth grade Latin declines. Tenth grade studies Persus. Arithmetic review uses Monares Diagnostic Test. Seventh grade to retake test Friday. Pedagogy class focuses on physical factors of the classroom. First observing session Friday will assess lighting heating ventilation and seating in lower grades. Russell Andrews arranged for a high school magazine club. Ninth and tenth grade girls met Tuesday and prepared lunch. Convocation planned for Wednesday. Solid geometry covers obtuse, acute and right angles. American history studies early explorers. Agriculture class reviews seed germination. Civics covers town and village organization. Chester Scharmann and Reed Ellermier visited Tuesday. Grade enrollments: primary nineteen, room two twelve, room three seventeen, room four seventeen, eight beginners.
Brief readable fragment notes an incident described with unclear wording. The text mentions a head impact and steam rising, with partial sounds of tapping, but lacks coherent details about people, places, or outcomes.
Detroit physicians report that goldfish swimming in four pools help soothe patients in sick rooms by moving objects to distract from pain. The effect is said to be stronger in the elderly and the very young, with canaries sharing the honor of serving as chief animated entertainment for the ill.
Sunday visits and school notices from Hollenberg and Fairbury include Frank and Mary Brenner at Jas Alexa's, Edna and Elva Roberts entering Hollenberg High, Bernice and Rose Haverty hosting dinner, Leonard Foster and family at the Sunday School picnic in Fairbury, Ernie Fielder visiting his parents Lee and family, and Rose attending the Farmers School northwest of Hanover.
Traveling couple Mr and Mrs Frank Miller have spent three months in Colorado. Washington residents Mr and Mrs Clarkson Davis, Beaver Kansas hosts Mrs Fred Feyerabend and children, joined Saturday evening at the Jos Brenneis home for a social visit.
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