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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1916
Page
2
A House resolution seeks a Commerce Department probe into newsprint supply. Debates fail to raise the regular army to 250000, while Mexico and Sussex sinkings strain diplomacy. Burleson aims to purge postmasters. Lansing eyes German submarine attacks. Villa retreats. Russia suffers heavy losses. Tornado near Davis Oklahoma kills a family. rail and border troop movements intensify. debates on constitutional amendments stall.
A fragmented 19th or early 20th century reminiscence surveys wedding customs from various regions. It notes left hand for rings, garlands kept in church, feast bequests for poor couples, honor roles like pride knights with gloves, Greek rites delaying entry, and legacy of formal kiss at the ceremony.
Reporter notes a claim that the inspector said a fire escape exists in a nine teenth floor room used by a small group linked to a church. Details are unclear and fragmented.
An unclear fragment mentions a leading citizen praising a record breaker. The text includes stray phrases like wonderful young and world references, but lacks coherent detail. No concrete people, places, or organizations are identifiable.
The Deer Creek district in Madison county voted a 5000 levy to build a two room school 33 by 33 feet with a 12 foot ceiling and a community assembly space. Plans include basement fuel room gymnasium manual training sewing domestic science and girls toilet with windmill water supply and 180 foot sewer.
Twenty two Nebraska towns will run public school gardens this summer under the agricultural extension service guidance. Each town will hire a garden supervisor from Alliance to Peru listed with names such as B Q Perry and L F Carey. The plan also notes possible large scale maneuvers at Fort Robinson in Nebraska if National Guards are drafted for action on the border or in Mexico, as discussed with Nebraska lawmakers in Washington.
President Ollis and Secretary Mellor of the state board of agriculture accompanied Jacob Sass to Seward to audit records of the late treasurer G. F. Dickman before turning them over to the new official. Sass, a Chalco resident, is a legislature member from Sarpy County. A seed corn survey shows 2 to 50 percent of farmers may lack seed supply, though most expect no regional shortage. A list of 95 farmers offering seed corn is available from the Department of Experimental Agronomy, University Farm, Lincoln, and 41 thousand bushels of corn suited to various parts of the state are for sale in this list.
Buck, Buck, chairman of the university fraternity council, reports all active chapters voted not to pledge or initiate any high school fraternity member after September 1919. The date is set three years ahead to allow current prep school members to join university societies.
Prices and demands shape the reply from the Western Railroad Union News Service in Washington. General Funston is instructed to proceed with shipments to General Pershing under conditions set by the Mexican de facto authorities. Extension of the agreement will not be pressed unless prompt, safe transport becomes impractical.
New York officials of Eastern railroads respond to the eight hour day and overtime pay demands by proposing their own terms for discussion. The employers reject no request and insist on an open door for negotiations, sending the reply to the four brotherhood officials after receiving the employees' demands.
Washington reports meat animal prices rose 16.4 percent on March 15 from a year earlier and 12.17 percent above six year March averages. The Department of Agriculture notes an 8.4 percent producer-price rise from February 15 to March 15, with hogs up 1.53 per 100 pounds and beef cattle up 45 cents from last year.
Congressman Shallenberger has introduced a House resolution authorizing the president to place an embargo on the exportation of gasoline and other petroleum products used by the army and navy. He argues the move would reduce gasoline prices and conserve military petroleum supplies in the United States.
A Saloniki dispatch reports five German aeroplanes bombarded Saloniki early Monday. Eighteen civilians were killed and twenty one wounded, including a Greek finance official. The Germans lost two aircraft, one shot down near Lake Amotova.
Paris reports a violent bombardment from Avocourt to Bethincourt west of the Meuse followed by a German attack on the Haucourt Malancourt line. The offensive was repulsed in successive waves with heavy losses, according to the French war office.
The Independent Telephone Company banquet in Lincoln Nebraska linked guests to New York and San Francisco by live two way audio. The one hour ten minute demonstration began at 9 15 p m in Lincoln and reached 1 15 p m in San Francisco and 10 45 p m in New York. Ambassador Gerard inquiry on Sussex remains unanswered. No official German stance yet on attacks.
A Southern Pacific statement says arms, munitions of war, and high explosives will not be received at border points or Mexican destinations until further notice. The action reflects changed border conditions and the role of United States customs officers.
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