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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1896
Page
4
A guide warns against premature planting of tender vegetables and emphasizes delaying planting until after the last danger of frost. It notes tree health depends on strong roots rather than top size, urging patience for sturdy growth.
A York Herald piece describes fears of awakening in graves and suspicions of medicine as a cause of death. Deaf mutes are sent to bed when ill, and children taken to church show scant understanding of its purpose. A witness recalled confusion about the church’s purpose and spiritual concepts.
The Japanese have a long art of sword making with ornate fittings. Nobles wore swords at the sash, passing as heirlooms through generations. Scabbards are lacquered with silk bindings. blades are curved. Each tsuba guard carries unique designs, making many guards priceless to collectors.
The Maine paper cites shifts in payment practices from cash and good will to precautions such as a loaded revolver on the paymaster’s table on the Kennebec ice fields. It notes anecdotes from Cripple Creek about naming lore and odd travel hazards, and mentions a train engine’s fuel use per mile and fashion observations on bloomers versus sleeves.
A historical speech argues that a silver coinage standard would undermine the dollar’s gold value, destabilize contracts and credit, and paralyze business. It traces gold and silver values, warns of amid free coinage threats, and details potential cascading economic collapse across debtors, banks, and factories.
Five and one half days work at 76 cents per day plus 22 days of labor at 1.50 per day adds to 87.12 dollars. This pays for digging 2244 tons of beets at 1.65 per ton. Beets were removed by plowing a deep furrow near the crop and then laid into piles.
The Baltimore American editorial argues that the Abyssinia tragedy shows territories pay a heavy price for expansion. It warns that masses weary of resource drains and war losses will resist land grabs as colonial powers face increasing enlightened resistance and retribution.
Dr M W Stryker president of Ham discusses clothes as guests boast about new dress and hat plans for church. One guest claims to wear a lovely dress next Sunday while another vows daily wear of a new hat. A third quips about having heart disease.
A New York firm proposes a twenty five volume series titled A Library of the World's Best Literature with editor Charles Dudley Warner and contributors Henry Thoreau Peck Hae W. Mable W. D. Howells and Prof Biot Norton among others.
In a Berkshire church a tablet memorializes a soldier who lost his left leg to a cannon ball called the above ball the canard refers to the item being in serted at the top of the monument the unusual feature underscores local wartime memory and peculiar phrasing.
Farmers warn against wasteful feeding and stress the need for warm dry brooding quarters to improve early farrowing and pig health. A ladies’ review praises strawberry mousse as a simple dainty. Anna M. Ross touts Piso’s Cure as the sole remedy for consumption. A remark mocks the villain in linen as less offensive than a black eye and red shirt.
An 19th century catalog-like note lists Gall's Catarrh Cure with internal use and price of 75 cents. It mentions stale bread revived by dipping in cold water and rebaking. Also references bitter anecdotes about pocket theft, Dr. and Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup for teething with 5 cent per bottle.
A promotional note describes a book about Hot Springs and Wind Cave near Hot Springs South Dakota. The offer invites readers to write to J Francis General Passenger Agent Burlington Route Omaha Nebraska to receive the book free.
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