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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1898
Page
3
Readable lines show a partial time table with station names and two arrival times 1 06 P M and 8 46 P M. Names such as Leva and Han appear as labels or passengers though many words are garbled and unreadable.
Post office hours updated with arrivals and Sunday hours. Mats open after arrival of every mail at 12:05 pm and 3:17 pm. Office hours on Sundays from 11:17 am to 1:17 pm and 3:17 pm to 6:17 pm. D. L. Fowran. P. M.
A flood of brief notices covers advertising, visits, sales, church events, and local happenings. Includes restaurant sales, restaurant owners changing hands, social visits from Fairbury and Beatrice, concert plans at the Congregational church, gramophone promotion, portrait offers, and a broken arm incident near Hotlenberg with Dr. Taylor attending.
Local agricultural prices for hard wheat oats and corn at Steele City on August 11 1898. Notices cover delegates to the republican state convention J F Ankrum and W Lambert leaving for Lincoln, inter state soldiers reunion at Superior September 19 to 24, and free tents bay straw and wood. Small items note donations from ND Willey and a 15 cent concert at the Congregational church. Several ads and errands mention a typewriter for sale, burro and cart trade, and ship shipments. Reports include typhoid cases at Endicott and local paper offers and doll carnival details. A medicine ad promotes Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with a local dealer.
A dozen youngsters gathered in front of Musser's store Sunday night shouting for over an hour, condemned as future criminals by a writer who fears lax enforcement will push them toward penitentiaries and workhouses.
The fourth quarterly meeting will be at the M. E. church next Sunday at 8 p m. Dr Huntington, Presiding Elder and newly elected chancellor of Nebraska Wesleyan University, will preach and lead the service. Everyone is invited. Rev W B Costley of Stockbridge Ga reports cholera morbus illness but credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for his recovery. Sold by O Taylor, Druggist, Steele City.
The Standard notes several Monday appointee committees refuse to serve, risking the Steele City Settlers' Reunion after extensive prep. If locals stay silent, the event may be canceled. A separate item introduces a document from the American Protective Dress titled The Blight of Free Trade The Blessings of Protection, by W. W. Wakeman.
Two piano and organ pieces issued by Popular Music Co Indianapolis are Bring Our Heroes Home and Dewey's Battle of Manila March Two Step. The former honors the Maine heroes with stirring words and patriotic tone, the latter a commemorative Spanish War instrumental. A Popular Music Roll of 18 pages is available for 25 cents. address Popular Music Co Indianapolis Ind.
The article highlights Adam Forgpaugh and the Sells Brothers as major exhibitors in a consolidated American circus circuit shaping national touring displays. It notes their prominence, scope of acts, and the era’s spectacle culture.
Ad claims Dr Coonley’s Olan Lily cures female diseases after years of suffering. Includes testimonials from Mrs H W Frerzen Detroit and Mrs C L Fowler Steele City Neb. Offers free ten days treatment and testimonials, with contact details in Detroit Michigan.
The New York Sun reports J A Bailey controls Barnum and Bailey and now has an interest with the Sells Brothers and plans a unified tour under one tent. Ephraim Lewy and Peter Sells are listed among top showmen, giving the combined venture world prestige and potential dominance.
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