26 Feb 1898
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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1898
Page
3
Community items report visits by Rev. Orr and Rev. Berkeley, moves of J. D. Minkler to Montejano, and social events for Margaret Baker and others. Local commerce includes hardware, hog remedy sales, express agents, and grain prices. Weather swings and a schoolhouse flag scene are noted alongside succession of small-town happenings and ads.
The ladies of the Congregational church announce an art exhibit on March 2 featuring fifty pictures including famous engravings. A table of antiquities and a short music and literary program will entertain. Admission is 10 cents for adults and 5 cents for children with afternoon entry for kids after school. Refreshments at 10 cents. Pictures to be sold at low prices after the program.
An old advertisement testifies to Chamberlain's Colds Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a top croup cure. It claims one dose suffices, with rapid relief for children. The text also includes endorsements from Geo. H. Wolff Fernandina Fla and Ward L. Smith Frederickstown Mo, listing G O Taylor Steele City Neb as sellers.
Mr. Baker’s improvements lead to continued operation in Steele City. The store pledges to sell at minimal margins and pay top market price for produce, offering items such as 800 gallons of stoneware at six cents per gallon, prints five cents a yard, muslin five cents a yard, thread and coffee prices, flour, and a few coats and vests at lower prices to attract customers.
Advertisement urging readers to send fifteen cents or postage for sixteen pages of latest popular songs and full music for piano or organ, with a three month subscription to American Popular Music via Popular Music Company in Indianapolis Indiana.
A Detroit Michigan reader endorses a Dr Cooney Medical to treat women’s ailments claiming quick cheap cures and humane care. The letter urges others to seek Preial Treatment and share this remedy to help suffering women everywhere.
Fragmentary medical prose asserts the bladder and womb have single primary functions and are not subject to disease except via two paths. It links bladder and kidney troubles to back and urinary symptoms often blamed on female weakness or womb trouble, noting errors in diagnosis.
An old cautionary note explains the value of insurance after a fire. It argues premiums as low as 80 cents and $10 to $15 can yield rapid $5,000 in cash after a loss, urging readers to consider neighbor risks and the reliability of insurers.
A brief classified notice seeks several trustworthy excusseaitecs and associates for unnamed duties. No further details are provided in the readable text.
A fragment notes travel in Chicago, Illinois. The readable text mentions the city and general movement but provides no specific routes dates or details.
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