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Newspaper
Steele City Standard
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1899
Page
3
Fragmented OCR shows a 1699 issue with freight and general agent notices. Mentions General Freight and Passenger Company and W. S. Hall as local agent. Includes uncertain pricing and routing data likely tied to Josern GranpIsAnp Ry. in a city postal segment.
A fragmented timetable shows post office hours and schedules with lines about arrivals and departures. Marks indicate service times from 10:00 a m to midnight and morning hours as well as eastward and westward routes. The text references L Doune and unclear initials.
Fragmented OCR lists officials and duties in Fairbury including sheriff, county superintendent of schools, assessor, and other roles. Mentions Newton and Alex Bell in partial form and unclear roles. No clear event or outcome. text preserves names and positions with gaps.
The document lists notices for the BOARD and TRUSTEES including Fowler, J. A. Hicks, Joan Barlow and others. It mentions District Court terms on April Tth and June 15th, and County Court schedules with regular terms on the first Monday of each month.
Steele City lodges of Masons, Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen and Odd Fellows meet weekly. Regular communications are held on Wednesdays or Thursdays in the G. A. R. hall or A. R. hall at 7:30 p m with visiting brethren invited. Officers J W Hicks C L Fowussa and others preside.
Emma rf presides as Steele City WCTU plans a Saturday event at a local church with details for the meeting and possible offerings.
Steele Bore Lodge No 2% of the Degree of Honor and A Ridge Post No 14 G A R hold meetings on the second and fourth Saturdays. Mrs Alice Lambour is listed, with Paxure Recorder. Allen P and Fowler C L are officers. Carter and Starr are named as captain and sergeant.
Fragmented text shows a Baptist message with mentions of Friday activities and Ladies Aid Society. It references a church in Hobaal eye Alvin So South wick and ass’t roles, suggesting regular meetings and gatherings. The readable parts indicate community religious notices rather than a full narrative.
The notice states prayer meetings every Thursday night at 7 30 and services every other Sunday at 11 00 a m Rev F B Sucten serves as pastor with Sunday School at 10 00 a m each Sunday.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a Sony 5 Ww item and an apparent sunset oven. The text lacks clear names, dates, or events to determine full context.
Fragmentary OCR shows names Henry D. Meres and Vads Chancellor with mentions of July and August occurrences. Details are unclear but indicate a historical legal or administrative note referencing dates and persons.
A partial OCR fragment lists weekly markings and prices: 22cs, 83.80 to 4.00, 82.00. It mentions A. H. Phelps and refers to a listed week and creations. The unreadable text prevents fuller context, but the remaining data suggests a price or rate sheet with named individual.
Local brief items recount visits and visits by residents, subscription pitches for State Journal, political campaign kickoff in Akron with 75,000 attendees, church services by Rev. F. E. Smith, construction progress on Taylor's store, carnival attendance in Fairbury, shipments of grain, chatter on new buggies, a popular digestive remedy promotion, burglaries at Washington grain office and Braden house, gift book advertisements, and a large fire destroying J. P. Lowe & Son’s implement shop and the Record office in Diller with insurance coverage noted.
Probate notice in Jefferson County Nebraska States Melissa Kline executrix seeks final settlement and discharge. A hearing is set for October 9, 1899 at 1 PM in the county court room Fairbury with publication in Steele City Stamp and Carpenter weekly for three weeks. County Judge C Boyt signs.
Two eighty acre farm listings near Steele City Jefferson County Nebraska with cultivation, timber and timberland, houses, wells and price to 2500 and 2000 dollars with state or Brete contracts. Other notes include a Hanover versus Grand Island baseball win 17 to 15, a book and home craft notices, a fiftieth wedding anniversary in Endicott, and a Mother’s note endorsing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sold by R T Taylor.
The St J and G I By advertises round trip rail rates to Kansas City for the Priests of Pallas and Karnival Krewe event from Sept 28 to Oct 8. Tickets sell at five dollars and twenty five cents with sale dates Sept 27 to Oct 7 and return by Oct 9. Two daily trips each direction.
The October issue from Standard Fashion Company highlights artistic dress and literary skill. It features black and white and color plates and a continued story by Martha McCulloch Williams titled A Silver Sper, plus pieces like In Autumn Array Millinery Balbs and Their Culare Autgang.
A Virginia editor recounts a long illness in Hilstille and credits Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with his full recovery after a few doses. He urges fellow sufferers to try the medicine and praises his improved health and vitality.
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