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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1911
Page
2
Following a large socialist demonstration at the Rathhaus protesting food price hikes, troops fired on rioters who built barricades. About fifty rioters were wounded as clashes continued with missiles thrown at soldiers. One hundred rioters were arrested amid a crowd of around fifty thousand. The protests urged foreign meat imports and other price remedies.
Marquisi Goff, 93, arrived in Stillwater after walking from Potatoe ll o Idaho to Austin Texas. A veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars he says he walks 33 miles daily to visit his three children aged 70 65 and 60. He took part in campaigns against western Indians and remains determined to reach his destination.
The governors conference selected Harmon of Ohio Hadley of Missouri and Aldrich of Nebraska to file a brief against the Supreme Court affirming Judge Sanborn's Minnesota rate case ruling.
Former U S Senator Thomas Henry Carter of Montana dies at home from lung trouble aged 67. A longtime figure in Republican politics he chaired the national committee and led the American section of an international commission.
An elderly hermit aged 75 who lived in a cave near Macon Missouri for forty years was found dead in his cave home with two bullet wounds in his head. Police say they have no clue to the killing or motive and that the man reportedly kept large sums of money at the residence.
Ten people are seriously injured after a derailment near Syracuse New York as nine others suffer minor injuries in a collision involving a freight and passenger train.
A patient experienced reduced heart action after an unspecified event. Medical staff monitored vital signs and prepared intervention options while continuing observation of the patient’s condition.
A digest of international recognitions and political happenings includes Britain recognizing Portugal, Taft's Leavenworth visit, Stolypin's assassination, and Taft's 13,000 mile speaking tour. It notes woman diplomat Clothilde Luise for Uruguay, bans on mineral stamps, timber sale plans, Rome’s fall of papal power, and flood and frost impacts across several regions.
Sugar prices rise daily while Admiral Togo returns home from world tour. Firemen demand higher wages on Erie rail line. Alexandria Louisiana bus race tensions push many Black residents away. Antwerp fire visible from Brussels. Chinese vessel Hai Chi nears New York harbor. South Boston coal yard fire destroys thousands of tons. New York garment workers strike looms. Mt Etna eruption damages property up to 20 million. Illinois Governor proclaims fire protection day. Prof Crabtree elected head of River Falls normal school.
A Progressive Republicans banquet at the Lindell hotel Friday launched La Follette to lead the Wisconsin senator bid. A committee named to advance his candidacy will extend actions into all counties of the state.
Commissioner Cowles acted as installing officer for governor appointees Commandant Hilyard and Mrs. Saummaton at Milford soldiers' home. The ceremony included a solemn moment where copies of Governor Aldrich's warning to inmates were pinned in the corridors.
Adams county prosecutor M A Hartigan asks the secretary of state to refuse reinstatement of Sperry and Hutchinson Trading Stamp Co in Nebraska arguing violation of the trading stamp law passed by the last legislature. He also protests Stein Bros of Hastings tied to a large trading stamp firm.
President O P Hendershot of the state board of agriculture offered his resignation but the board declined to accept it. He plans to move to Boise City Idaho after forty years in Nebraska most of that time in Hebron where he farmed and bred livestock and supported the state fair and university farm.
Secretary Mellor announced the Nebraska state fair poultry show was the largest ever in the United States with 2462 birds exhibited. He completed issuing warrants paying all premiums and all department claims filed.
The Nebraska farmers congress will hold its second annual session in York on September 20 and 21. The meet will coincide with the Nebraska rural life commission gathering and aims to present an interesting program. The congress coordinates the work of farmers organizations and does not replace any group.
Chief Game Warden Miller arrested two men at Ashmend for possessing a freight car half filled with fish seined from a public lake near the town. The haul included buffalo, carp and bull, caught with a 600 foot seine. Two suspects were from Iowa and two from Omaha.
Labor Commissioner Louis V. Gaye has received the program for the twenty seventh annual convention of factory inspectors. The meeting will be held in Lincoln Nebraska from September 18 to 20 inclusive.
President Taft will visit Lincoln on October 2 with BE. J. Burkett named chairman of the reception committee. A dollar dinner open to the public will be held at the Lincoln hotel.
A state rail plan will be commissioned as a program is set to be addressed shortly. Officials indicate the initiative will tackle railway development and coordination among carriers.
Nebraska brief items report political speeches by William J. Bryan and party tactics, a county mental health ruling, multiple local fatalities including a boy's death from a pony accident and a man drowned near Springfield, and a prominent cattleman found dead in Omaha. Also noted are a bank president injured in a runaway, a murder charge against a Franklin stone cutter, rising Douglas county university enrollment, and state fair poultry records.
A testimonial promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a safe alternative to surgery for women. It claims多年 years of use, cures for menstrual irregularities pains backache and indigestion, and offers confidential free advice upon request to Mrs Panis Mullux in St Eb.
A brief aphorism reflecting J R George Macdonald on wealth and self sufficiency. It contrasts desiring riches with the true strength of living without them as a sign of power.
An ad offers free samples of birthday flower and motif post cards from Topeka Kansas. It presents luxe designs while noting a grim contrast that working horses are fed while workers die of hunger.
Farmer Corm Jones remarks on Josh’s long hours, suggesting he is naturally suited to be a milkman. The dialogue questions Josh’s business, noting his sleepless schedule as a defining trait.
A curiously choppy dialogue features an insurance agent pressed about a life policy. The speaker counters with a boast of a lucky star and bets that a policy would end in a death tomorrow, hinting at distrust and risk in a tense encounter.
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