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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1896
Page
3
The Steele City Camp No. 1685 M W A expresses heartfelt sympathy for neighbor F W Fehrenwald in his sudden affliction. The committee notes the surviving children and requests copies be sent to Steele City for publication and memorial minutes.
Local column from Steele City reports auctions at stock yards and new stock for dry goods as merchants promote bargains. It notes births and marriages, school data, revival meetings, and a mining interest near the gulch with a farm offer pending. The piece lists sales, shop warnings, weather hints, and travel notices.
Notice lists mail train arrival times and post office hours. Malis eastbound at 11:55 p.m. and westbound at 30 minutes past the hour, with Sunday open from 11:80 p.m. to 12:80 p.m. and 2:80 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. C. W. Simnop, P.M.
Local daily schedule excerpt lists transit times and freight departures. Includes notation No 15 No 68 Fast freight and morning departures with times, indicating a mail and goods service timetable for a regional line.
The Diller public schools were dismissed Wednesday and Professor Vanoil with Miss Edna Whittemore and Bertha Henderson plus about sixteen elder pupils visited Steele City schools. The state plan designates a day for schools to tour others to share methods and notes for mutual benefit. Prof. Geyer and staff welcomed the visitors who spent the day productively.
Rev Irl Hicks foresees extraordinarily cold and stormy weather from now until the end of March. He urges backup plans for livestock shelter and nourishment as a polar wave may arrive in the final week.
The Nebraska based Semi Weekly State Journal is emphasized as essential for Nebraskans in 1896. It pledges early delivery and extensive state news alongside national and foreign events. It highlights its foreign service for war scare coverage and praise for timely reporting.
Examination week keeps teachers and pupils busy as new pupils Robbie Packard Si Johnston and Mat Spence join the primary department. Nebraska map from State Superintendent Corbett aids seventh graders studying geography. County schools to receive select American poetry to foster taste for literature. Diller teachers and fifteen pupils visit Steele City schools. Prof Vanoil new in county shown as capable. Miss Whitmore and Miss Henderson lead departments. About fifty visitors attend the program held at the schoolhouse.
Community notes report a crowd of about 500 at Albiaiset Saturday night and a large Sunday turnout at the schoolhouse to hear Rev. Crumb. Ed Allen and Mr Yates are active with plans in Lond and funding projects while mining talk and farm trades fill the Hollow chatter.
The notice urges sending bills to Fowler and Ankrum for collection and offering property management in Steele. It claims they handle renting or selling properties, claim to protect clients’ interests, and promote low-cost risk insurance and farm setup services.
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