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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1899
Page
4
A garbled jumble of health testimonial snippets, stray recipes, and street scene vignettes. The text includes a patient praising Vegetable Compound, stray farm notes on thoroughbred breeding, and a comic anecdote about a streetcar encounter.
A fragment notes that European communities in 1417 believed Gypsies originated from Egypt. The text hints at origins and contemporaries’ views but is incomplete and lacks further detail.
An old advertisement text promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure as the only known medical remedy. It lists F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio as distributors and mentions a druggist selling the product. The passage also lightly notes hair claims by a married woman and humorously notes marriage effects on a woman’s water.
Cam eras given away absolutely free in a Brooklyn address ad from Dep t Co 916 Avenue. Beger s Seed urn promotes seed corn test northern grown early and profitable. Salser Seed Co offers low prices per sere with 16c request. Mrs Winslow’s Scormtme Syrup purports to ease teething pain and wind colic for children.
The notice promises all night trains with free chair cars and Pullman palace sleepers. It emphasizes an all night service pattern along the route between Joseph or Kansas City and Wisconsin towns.
A collection of old time patent medicine claims touts Hale's Honey of Horehound as a winter tonic and cites Druggist Pike's Toothache Cure. The text mentions multilingual translator Jeremiah Curtin and a snippet about Allen's Foot-Ease for sore feet, reflecting period advertising style.
A notice promises a weekly salary of 15 dollars for a position introducing Poultry Insect Lee-5 Parsons, Kena, with unspecified duties and terms. The fragmentary text offers limited context on roles or employer.
A purchase offer claims Lexative Bromo Quinine tablets cure colds in one day with a money back guarantee. An attached note cites Mrs Luc Allace from Kansas giving Dec 12 as part of the testimonial. An unrelated cooking tip describes onions and steak on a spider rack to cook in grease.
A jumble of literary quips and book sales is paired with a cabbage dish recipe. Sydney Smith, references to The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, and Que Vadis selling over 600000 copies appear alongside kitchen instructions for stuffed cabbage prepared with rice and meat then simmered in cream or butter sauces.
The article contrasts the Ainu practice of keeping a bear as a pet from cub to fattened hunter, noting the eventual slaughter for feast amid rejoicings and the use of the skin for clothing or a blanket. It also discusses farm wealth tied to soil and atmospheric nitrogen, claiming extended value from stored nutrients and the cost efficiency of nitrogen-rich feeds.
A recounting of the April battle near Quengua northeast of Malolos shows Colonel Stoteenburg of the First Nebraska killed leading a charge. Seven Americans died and forty four wounded as reinforcements under Major Mulford entered, with heavy combat and trench fighting described.
A reader letter endorses Peruna from The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing Co. of Columbus Ohio. The writer James Lewis praises the remedy for catarrh and claims the treatment stops mucus waste, offering a free catarrh book and urging others to try the product.
The Siberian Railway is now fully running to Omsk 2,200 miles from St. Petersburg. The journey takes four days and a half. Russia accelerates construction to secure Vladivostoeck as a seaport amid tensions with Japan. Workers drained a sixty mile bog living in pile huts with boats as access. Mosquitoes forced masks, 4,000 in use. The route promises lively scenery for tourists.
The Monitor Vinticole reports world wine output at 3,262,103,820 gallons in 1896 and 2,843,478,920 gallons in 1897. U S production is listed as 806,17,965 p00 gallons for 1896 and 30,308,740 gallons for 1897.
George Meredith announces a new poetry volume titled Odes in' cemaieeee to the Song of French History. The work is described as more Meredithian than most and will be published in the fall.
Fragmentary text hints at a local holiday meal with eggs and a turkey theme. References to annual customs and possible egg servings suggest a seasonal cooking item. Details are unclear but imply a community event or home tradition.
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