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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1911
Page
4
New York physicians report wireless toothache as a newly discovered nervous ailment among wireless operators. High tension currents from wireless telegraphy are blamed for toothaches and potential future nervous diseases. European doctors note the phenomenon and call for further investigation into electric exposure effects.
A New York milliner named Telia introduces a French style skirt that permits easy walking for women, showcasing ankle exposure as a fashionable feature. The item emphasizes comfort and movement while remaining stylish for contemporary wear.
San Francisco reports the christening party for the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Sr. arranged by family and friends with plans for a formal ceremony and celebration.
Federal workers in Seattle and along the Pacific slope are poisoning and trapping ground squirrels to halt bubonic plague spread from southern California to British Columbia. Officials warn bites from infected squirrels or rats could transmit the disease to humans and livestock.
Mme. Melia star at the Palace theater in London performed a striking act with her blindfolded dancing to Berlin. Hungarian by birth she trained in the premier schools now in existence in Europe.
Albert Woodrow of Brookdale described a 10 foot greenish creature with a doglike head surfacing in a canal, claiming it was the largest water animal he had seen after passing others in the water. Bloomfield plans to watch the area, but the alleged sighting remains unconfirmed.
A discussion of ancestral graves in China delaying rail and road projects abroad. It notes that despite modern railways, Chinese graves obstruct right of way, with a Canton Christian College monument to a grave owner illustrating stubborn local reverence. The piece reflects on foreign attitudes and geomancy as impractical obstacles to development.
A farmer recalls voting for a congressman for 15 years and expresses trust in his time in Washington due to past trade experiences. The exchange highlights loyalty and perceived safety from political representation.
Yolande Nero, an American pianist by marriage in New York, embarks on a prolonged European tour. She has given about sixty concerts last season and will perform with Frits Kreisser in Great Britain, with the London Symphony in November, and with orchestras in France and Berlin under Arthur Nikisch.
A constituent questions if the elected man grasps the office's importance and another replies his first act should be to raise the salary he commands, illustrating a public exchange on compensation and duty.
An emergency inquiry asks what a bank reserver is and how it serves the cashier during a rainy period. The discussion clarifies role duties and potential needs for liquidity amid weather disruptions.
A New York Supreme Court jury ruled that Alexander Miller of Brooklyn creator of Vulcan Iron Works could not legally make a will while wearing a cut glass bow on his head. The eccentric testator left most of his estate to siblings and left his widow $12,500, while entertaining barefoot at home with gas-tossed salads and public displays.
In St Louis report from Louis, Mo, the piece notes 60 percent of young trolley car divers are farmers sons. It describes farm roots among city clerks and railway workers, and the pull of city life versus rural work and failure to return to farms.
The National Association of Master Bakers denounces home baked bread as deadly and calls for all bread to be bought from sanitary bakeries. President Paul Schulze of Chicago warns housewives to quit baking and cites an unbaked center in a health bread example as evidence.
Police announce arrests of six men in connection with a firebug gang blamed for a $1,000,000 property loss over twelve months. The group allegedly included a former officer and was led by David Kor sheak who claimed the scheme paid by commissions from insurance money.
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