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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1896
Page
6
Fragmentary OCR text mentions medical company in Schenectady New York and prices quoted as 100. The readable items are names and a financial reference without a clear event or outcome.
The text notes a discussion of a boyish pride in a historical notice and an opinion about public figures. It mentions Mrs Leslie Carter testifying about dancing with Mr. Fairbank and his denial on the witness stand, plus a question about what caused his apparent digression. The fragmentary source suggests unsettled commentary on manners and accountability.
A Hermansville pastor Mr Kirby stirred the community during a notable church event in Marinette, recalling a past revival two years earlier that drew wide attention in Wisconsin.
Advertisement notes Hall's Catardh Cure as a dematitational remedy priced at 75 cents and asserts Piso's Cure as the only medicine to cure consumption. It also promotes White stock as a wash for infants to ease colic with a 25 cent bottle.
A line expresses that only with a steadfast heart to do good work and move forward can one truly live well. It links moral resolve to lasting achievement beyond life, suggesting that true victory comes from consistent effort.
Compressed air propulsion shows promise as a new street car drive system. The New York experiment suggests potential economic benefits for future line construction, though immediate widespread adoption is unlikely.
A large adult bull roamed Central Park for much of Sunday blocking paths and scaring bicyclists. The piece notes urban grass cutting habits and warns such neglect invites cattle disruptions for Gotham residents.
The passage argues that all have guiding ideals even when deeds fall short. It holds that no one upholds wrong yet all condemn neglect of right. Ideals are essential to character, and without them life would show a sorrowful record.
Despite a somber mood, Duluth’s claim department grows with steady activity. The 1895 census lists 69,896 residents, but hack drivers estimate 70,000, suggesting rapid growth since 1890. The piece imagines Duluth becoming a western metropolis and hopes revival spreads to Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Tacoma, and Seattle as prosperity returns.
The Chicago Post notes rural crime processes in Greeley Iowa where four case-blowers faced vigilante pursuit, praising country methods while hinting at lingering violence and jail time. The piece contrasts country and city approaches to theft and law enforcement amid community tension.
The text discusses Sumatra's oil transport advantages and routes using river and port access. It notes pipelines and refined petroleum movement by rail as a cost factor, with ships delivering to refineries and unloading into tanks or barrels, highlighting geographic and logistical considerations.
A collision on the West Jersey line near Atlantic City kills and injures many excursionists. The Reading train breached signals and struck the West Jersey excursion train, causing extensive fatalities and injuries. The incident casts a pall over a day of seaside pleasure and prompts questions about signaling and engineer vigilance.
Lord Cecil’s mild bee farming hobby caused a neighborhood uproar when a telegram about a Carniolan queen was misread as a royal visit by Her Majesty. The Hatfield station drew a throng as gossip spread from Welwyn to Hatfield about the Queen’s arrival.
The text recalls Thackeray facing criticism for copying real people into his fiction, especially portraying his friend Arthur Archdekne as a character in his work. Archdekne confronted the author after a lecture at the Cellar Club, expressing mixed feelings about the depiction.
A traditional iced rice pudding method is given with steps to boil rice in water, add milk, cook until soft, sieve, reboil, thicken with eggs and sugar, chill, whip cream into the pudding, flavor with vanilla, and freeze like ice cream. The process emphasizes a double boiler finish and a creamy texture.
Advice on cleaning habits and tools from Ledger guidance. Recommends whisk broom for fine carpets and sweeping in one direction to avoid pushing dust in. Discourages feather dusters and promotes cloths, cheese cloth for fine furniture, blue handkerchiefs for ordinary tasks. Also includes a berry pudding recipe with butter sugar milk flour baking powder eggs berries and hot sauce.
A recipe for Poor Man's Pudding uses stale biscuits or biscuits and corn muffins with raisins currants brown sugar flour suet and baking powder steamed for about two hours and seasoned with nutmeg or mace. Also tips from Ladies' Home Journal explain removing kerosene grease with wheat flour and repeating, and removing grease spots from book leaves with French chalk.
Prepare slices of bread roasted and toasted. Cut each slice into diamond shapes and butter. Arrange on a platter. Boil the juice from a quart of large oysters, skim, then add two tablespoons of butter and the oysters. Shrivel, season, and pour over toast to serve.
Soak a pint of bread crumbs in milk for two hours then mix in the yolks of two eggs, a half cup of sugar, and the grated rind and juice of one lemon. Bake slowly about an hour, then top with a lemon meringue made from two whites and a touch of sugar and brown lightly.
Select medium carrots wash scrape and slice then boil until tender in salted water Drain while warm and pour dressing made of oil or butter pepper salt and eight tablespoons of vinegar over them Mash sugar with blackberries water and lemon juice to make sherbet Serve dessert and salad in sequence from the same recipe notes.
An old advertisement fragment references a California Fig Syrup Company and notes the product syrup is sold by responsible dealers. The text discusses a remedy claiming to purify the blood and aid health as part of a sales pitch.
A woman should not travel the road until she can mount and dismount with confidence and fully understand her machine. Fear of an early accident may break a new rider's nerve, making confidence difficult to regain later.
A Paris lamplighter rides a bicycle on duty with a long pole bearing a light at its end. He lights all the lamps from his seat, without dismounting. The scene also notes extraordinary concoctions prepared at codas water counters.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions an abroal matter linked to Vana Academy. It names Pomtisy and references an arrest or disposition but lacks clear details or dates. Further readable context is needed to craft a complete record.
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