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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1892
Page
4
A fragmentary notice discusses U S government report and fashion impact. It mentions hats and drawing faces, noting cost and perceived skill, with unclear attribution and period voice. The readable phrases hint at a critique of style and authority in historical context.
The text records overheard chatter about laxatives and health misunderstandings. It mentions dismissive remarks about cures and a line from Measlow claiming a sister and a summer boarder in New York, followed by a curt reply from Lawnmo and Meadow.
An 1888 Toledo advertisement markets a blood remedy named Haty's Catarbah Cure offered by F J Cheney Co. A notary public confirms the document and the firm promises a one hundred dollar penalty for non use. The page also includes a brief serialized dialogue about opera.
A mixed collection of clipped lines and snippets appears as a playful word hunt. The page includes word-search style prompts, banter about poets and a humorous exchange, plus derisive comments on hay fever and city folk.
A jumble of humorous vignettes and stray observations: a train held, sulkies for trotting races, bets and bargains, talk of wealth and life insurance, travel social cues in New York and Chicago, college talk, a farmer’s quips, and a Harrisburg turkey gobbler laboring to hatch five potatoes in five weeks.
A wife worries about reaching the theater before the overture ends while a husband grimly suggests a fire in town could delay their arrival. He contemplates riding a fire engine as a possible venture.
A Waverly Virginia resident, Norman Cheatham, claims his family has relied on Dr Bull s Cough Syrup for twelve years and keeps it in the house at all times deeming it invaluable.
A child recounts a playful mischief about Adam and the tree of knowledge. The boy quips that if Adam had left the apple alone no one would know good or bad and people could be as bad as they pleased without noticing distance. The exchange captures a humorous, didactic moment.
Globe offers a cost effective weight reduction feature with a small expense. Send two cent stamp for a copy to Retina Circulating ce at 3e E. Washington Street Chicago.
Mr Gotham recalls the De Styles. Mrs Gotham reports Mrs De Style met on the street and said Mr De Style’s health improved by ocean air, prompting them to stay in their seaside cottage all winter.
A fragment notes a remedy called Brown's Bronchia Traches for bronchitis and throat irritation. A brief dialogue implies a character planning to go abroad to seek fortune and a romantic exchange about loyalty.
A humorous collage recalls a boy awake at four as a hotel guest, explanations of sour milk by electricity, a comic exchange with a kindly newspaper seller, and odd notes about a meteorite at Legington Manor and Servian drum carriers.
A Paris hospital study of eighty three epilepsy patients found sixty are offspring of drunken parents. The report notes a strong association between parental alcohol use and epilepsy in their children, prompting calls for further investigation and public health awareness.
A father vents over a coat left in the hall torn on a fence. His daughter suggests the fault lies with the absent owner, hinting at a neighbor named Mr Nicefello who may have worn the coat last night. The dog’s restraint is also questioned.
An American Agriculturists description shows a twenty five by sixty foot sheep shelter for up to 100 sheep with a sunward south face and movable feed racks. It also notes shallow or no tillage for potatoes, eight inch row spacing, and that quality matters in potato production for family use.
The article notes a rise in sheep on farms, especially dairy farms, hindered by cur dogs. It suggests a NSW dog-law, but until then fences of chicken or woven wire, portable hurdles, bells on every eight sheep, and a ready rifle to drive dogs away are advised as protection.
A Practical Farmer gives a 12 by 4 foot three partition sorting box plan with a 4 foot high back and two inclined levels. Place potatoes close on the first incline and farther on the second to separate into three grades by sliding and shoveling to the top and down the incline.
A frugal home-based method lets a shop or shed warm with waste wood and start garden plants for neighbors. By using a second hand stove, glass, and modest boxes, a 10 by 12 room can produce cabbages tomatoes peppers eggplant celery and more, with plants ready in six months at about two dozen per dozen.
A correspondent explains a five year method for overwintering bedding geraniums. Plants stay in beds with nightly covers against frost, then are dug with roots, tops trimmed, packed in deep boxes with earth, watered, and stored in a dry cellar. In spring they sprout anew and bloom richly.
Experiments at the Utah Station tested potato depth for various purposes. Results indicate planting depth did not substantially affect total yield and when conditions allowed, other factors were explored.
A described homemade device uses a steel knife shaped like a wide sickle mounted between two bent iron bars to slice hay and roots from sheaves. The device is careful to avoid fingers, moistens chopped hay before feeding, and notes benefits of mixing grain with feed and easier consumption for cows and sheep.
The text advises giving chickens fine gravel and varied feed, providing shade in heat, accessible nests and roosts to ease lice control, and keeping waste chickens in small flocks. It notes ducks prefer larger groups, geese are hardy and low maintenance, and suggests large farm runs for chickens offer good returns.
Butter for immediate use need not be worked as clean as that which is to be kept for some time. Salt butter after washing thoroughly at a quarter to half a pound per tub to keep it from rancidity. Pack firmly to exclude air, leave a half inch headroom, and cover with salt and a cloth. Store tubs in a clean dry cold cellar.
A fall lawn treatment using equal parts nitrate of soda superphosphate and muriate of potash followed by a spring feeding of nitrate of soda is advised. Apply half a ton per acre in fall or a handful per square yard and in spring 300 pounds per acre or a handful per three or four square yards. This boosts turf and plant growth broadly.
Spruce carpets with a salt and turpentine wash then wipe with warm water to brighten them and deter moths. Label stored goods with contents on every box or trunk for easy retrieval. Recommend fine linen gifts to avoid duplications. linen endures for special occasions. Riley notes pyrethrum cones can deter mosquitoes though malaria link unproven. Cooking tip: asparagus stew with milk and butter, simmer until tender for soup base.
David S. Cook from East Worcester New York founded the Chicago Sunday School publishing enterprise. He built a mission on Chicago's North Side and expanded to multiple missions and schools while advancing affordable literature for Sunday schools. He employs editors and writers and is respected for Christian character and temperance work. The piece includes anecdotes and conversations illustrating his era and character.
A boy asks to go to the circus but his father calls circuses wicked. The boy mentions a man gave him two tickets to water the horses, and the father concedes they could go.
Paris investigation finds eight inch diameter stone formed from chemicals in the horse La Marchale's stomach. In other notes a joke exchanges about ventilation and colds, with a girl asking about her new school.
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