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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1897
Page
6
Opuliste and Repadeens clash over control of the Stab ard politics. The piece alleges schemes to secure more offers and public funds, portraying partisan maneuvering and calls for better oversight by officials.
J. W. Johnson denounces the governor and a fusion majority for delaying reform, funding abuses, and a brash bid to place Kirkpatrick on the Supreme Court bench. The letter accuses officials of embezzlement, patronage, and subversion of honesty in state government, urging voters to reject bossism.
Fashion notes celebrate a tenacious French pelerine as a spring vogue continuing into summer. Fabrics and millinery rise with Venetian glass material for dresses and hats and promise bonnets that can be cleaned with soap and water.
Dashaway and Uncle Jasper exchange a humorous bluff about whisky and trousers. Uncle Jasper frets over appearances while Dashaway offers a cheeky choice, highlighting social pretensions and rustic wit in dialogue.
A man voices confusion over editor actions and the source of pasted newspaper clippings. His wife questions who creates the cutouts and who starts the process, while the man dwells on the idea of why editors assemble such material. The dialogue hints at newspaper pasteup practices and curiosity about provenance.
A dispersed set of short notices and tidbits from Nebraska towns. It reports editorial leadership changes, agricultural outputs, weather and crops, local crimes and incidents, school funding, marriages, settlements, and local politics with scattered names of towns and individuals.
The readable text is garbled and lacks coherent events or identifiable names. No clear person, place, date, or organization can be extracted to form a factual card.
A fragment notes that an essence obtained by distillation of leaves or needles is credited with medicinal virtue by several German practitioners.
The note from Mr G Williams of Conoty ML describes Salzer's German Coffee Berry as yielding coffee worth 3800 pounds more than store coffee at 80 cents a pound. A package and seed catalog are sent by John A Salzer Seed Co Croisse Wis upon receipt of 15 stamps. The fault finder mocks weather if it could raise money.
A Union veteran and Shiloh Post commander, J. M. Baird of Cherokee Kansas, lauds Dr Williams Pink Pills as cures for his rheumatism and his wife neuralgia. He credits Rev. J B Wiles for the recommendation and notes the pills restore strength, with the medicine sold by dealers or mail order from the Medicine Company, Schenectady New York.
A fragment notes a trend in Modine style with violet clothing. It mentions violets, pink silk, and pink veils as popular items and hints at a fashion movement focused on color coordinated costumes and toiletries.
A fragment lists various seed packs and a postal offer for a Mammoth plant and seed catalog with 14 cents postage. Also referenced are Hall's Hair Renewer, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and Piso's Cure, with witness quotes and health claims amid miscellaneous lines.
A veteran claims catarrh is a constitutional disease requiring systemic treatment. F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio markets a remedy with a promise of 100 dollar reward for any failure to cure. Local druggists sell the preparation as a lifelong health aid.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses No-To-Bao and 400,000 cured, with garbled phrases about regulation of tobacco and health. Mentions Savoy, mikes healtth, amnhood, starsnieed, 5Ce aid pl orf droggelst. Overall unclear, but implies public health regulation discussion.
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