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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1926
Page
3
An advertisement touts Dave's Mentha Pepsin as a powerful stomach remedy. It claims to restore order and vigor to a troubled stomach and promises a money back guarantee if it does not help. The elixir is sold by local dealers and druggists nationwide.
The text provides a vintage salted recipe listing ingredients like evaporated milk butter and flour with baking powder and instructions to mix into a well greased pan and bake in a Dutch oven for forty minutes. It repeats a Lavater quote about actions looks and words forming an alphabet for spelling character.
Brandon Cathewe acquires a local paper to gain influence and woo Betty Mansfield daughter of steel magnate Dunleigh Mansfield. He prints a tale accusing Mansfield of defrauding a workman of a valuable invention. Doctor Madox discovers Cathewe is Digby Hallowell's son as Nancy and Betty read the story and Cathewe becomes editor. Betty, drawn by anonymous love letters abruptly cut, plans to meet Cathewe while Betty’s dog Sandy is injured.
Betty learns of Cathene, a mysterious reader of Fabre and fixture in the town, while Mansfield’s banker warns Dunleigh that Cathene finances his antiestablishment paper. The young man’s knowledge and wealth threaten the political balance as Bet ty contemplates his identity and motive.
American author Lafcadio Hearn, born to an Irish father and Greek mother, left London at sixteen to work in the United States before moving to Japan. He naturalized as a Japanese citizen, adopted Buddhist faith, wore local dress, and married a Japanese wife, spending the rest of his life there and detailing Far East life with rare insight.
A London dentist reportedly sings during tooth extractions. The lighthearted claim notes the practice of singing to ease pain, though no extractions are truly painless.
The article explains astronomers favor reflectors for future work due to easier construction in large sizes. A concave silvered mirror replaces lenses, avoiding defects of glass disks. current largest objective is 40 inches. Light reflects off the concave face, with a silvered surface created by chemical deposition.
Time recounts a historic Ynys Maelgwn Gwynedd episode where sixteenth century Welsh harpers cast harps into the Conway River and swam to shore. Prince Maelgwn Gwynedd welcomed the singers and proclaimed a trial by water, endorsing the primacy of song over instrumental music.
In a Kansas City federal court Ruth Kelly, aged 25, was charged with selling morphine. Prosecutor Margaret Latchem, 21, attempting her first case, watched the defendant cry as the judge set a seven month sentence. The moment tested the prosecutor’s poise in a narrow margin between professional dignity and sympathy.
The report recalls Cortlandt Bleecker denouncing an undressed dancing group at a New York supper club and a confrontational reply from a young woman. It also notes a lost dog ad, a large skin collection sent to the American Museum of Natural History, and assorted odd lines about explorers and a geologist’s view on volcanic eruptions.
A playful exchange reveals Harold's nightly visions of a cat, with playful questions about whether the cat is his only sighting when he dreams. The brief exchange hints at an intimate domestic moment.
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