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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1910
Page
7
Washington reports Capitol renovations by Elliot Woods as a small army renovates the building to provide private offices for all members. House members share offices with clerks while senators receive at least two rooms for clerks and personal use. Marble office buildings accompany each congressional branch.
Prince Tsai Hasyn, Chinese minister of naval affairs, will arrive Monday from the orient to study American naval construction. His uncle Prince Tsai Hsun also travels to observe and place orders. Charles M. Schwab, Bethlehem Steel president, is here to meet the prince, with Archibald Johnson and H. B. Snyder, Bethlehem executives.
Four Interstate Commerce Commission members Prouty Lane Clements and Clark will hear testimony in Chicago as the investigation into a proposed railroad rate increase resumes after a brief New York session. The probe began with a special examiner and moved to New York for eastern railroads’ testimony.
Atlanta hosts the eighty sixth annual meeting of the sovereign grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Grand Marshal E I Pilsbury of Charlestown Mass is absent due to illness and Samuel A Read of Windsor Vermont is appointed in his stead.
Mrs. A. D. Winship aged eighty and former Racine Wisconsin resident has enrolled as a student at Ohio State University. She will take an optional course and attend college to acquire more knowledge. She recently returned from Michigan where she attended a summer school.
Atlantic City hosts the forty fourth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. Hotels boardwalk and trains bring five thousand veterans and families to the Savoy theater for a patriotic Sunday sermon and crowded gatherings.
Captain Klaus Larsen and the Ferro completed a crossing from the Maid of the Mist dock to within a mile of Lewiston, tackling the cataract whirlpools. The 4.5 mile trip started at 4 46 PM and ended near 5 30 PM on Sunday afternoon.
Count Kielmansegg, governor of Lower Austria, his wife and nephew were returning from an aviation meeting attended by the emperor and archduke when a shot pierced the windshield of their large car. No injuries occurred.
General orders announce a state national guard court martial to convene at Lincoln Nebraska at 10 a m on November 15 1910 for trial of privates and officers who left Ft Riley en route or were absent without leave. The panel includes Brig Gen Joseph A Storch Colonel F J Mack Colonel G A Eberly Lt Col J M Birkner Major H J Paul Major G H Holdeman Captain L H Gage Captain C L Brewster judge advocate. The court will sit without regard to hours and jurists will be named by the governor.
The Commercial Club plans elaborate Lincoln street decorations for the farmers national congress and German societies event in October. Flags will hang across streets in artistic draperies with three wires per block and large flags at ends, pennants mid block, fan-shaped draperies from sidewalks, all in national colors.
The state board of agriculture estimates net receipts from this year’s exposition will total about 35000 after all expenses. The board began the year with 19000 and incurred costs of 60000 to 65000 for preparation and progress. Total intake approached 80000, plus the prior balance, yielding 99000 to manage. After deducting expenses, about 35000 remains, roughly equal to 1908’s fair return.
William M. Ely, Republican nominee for Fifty first district, informs the secretary of state he declines the nomination after his papers were refused for lateness. His name appeared on the ballot and he had a Republican majority. He asks the committee to fill the vacancy. Warrington of Ainsworth is the Democratic nominee in the district.
Chief Engineer K Hurd in charge of physical valuation of railroads for the state railway commission files a report showing $22,126.13 spent of $40,000 appropriated as of September 6. He notes he will withhold the railroad property valuation report until final reports on various railroads are filed simultaneously.
A university boxing program will involve students in physical education. A large class of male students trained in boxing under J. P. Hewitt and Jack Best over the past three years will lead the work again this year if plans materialize. Preparations have begun and the class will be organized shortly after the school opens.
The nurse recalls the doctor delivering a baby yesterday morning. Willie aged six jokes that the doctor lives somewhere and warns that if the baby needs a hand or a leg new parts would be required.
The advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for preserving purifying and beautifying skin scalp hair and hands. It claims soothing antiseptic emollient and cleansing effects with a promise of free Cuticura Book via Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston Massachusetts.
A satirical set of want ads mocks high finance with lines seeking elderly gentlemen to endorse dividends, financiers to supply colleges and libraries, stockholders to manage food supply, and social reps paid with no brains needed. Palm Beach in winter and Adirondacks in summer appear as fanciful perks.
Pietro, working with a Florida railroad gang, ignores the rattlesnake warning and nearly gets bitten when a large rattler coils nearby. He moves to avoid the strike as the fangs bite the bark beneath him, recalling several quoted maxims and scattered lines. The passage blends a perilous moment with literary fragments and aphorisms.
Letters from women in Hudson Ohio and St Regis Falls New York praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women's ailments. They report relief after using the product and encourage others to seek advice and try the remedy.
Col Robert C Carter narrates a wartime anecdote about Private Dash of Company A at a Nashville banquet. Dash, famed for sharp tongue, encounters a noblewoman on a rich estate and is refused food. He pressingly repeats his request, prompting a wry exchange over trespass and stubborn resolve.
A reflective quotation by W. G. Gannett emphasizes that true beauty begins in the soul and radiates outward, the face catching light only from inner illumination.
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