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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1929
Page
4
Ownership filing lists W. J. Herbes as publisher and sole owner of Osceola Record of Osceola Nebraska. No bondholders or other security holders. Sworn before Notary A. F. Nuquist on April 1 1929.
A man named Johnny Johansen died instantly when the hammer of a gun discharged while he tried to retrieve it from a wagon. He was buried at Wesley Chapel. The item also notes Easter egg donations, a congressional salary bill for rural carriers, a birth, a church meeting, a wedding, a clothing sale, a church supper, and several Polk County farms for sale near Osceola with details on acreage and improvements.
The Missionary Herald notes native trained medical assistants as key to a new Africa. Louis Franck’s humorous portrayal of confronting a witch doctor mirrors missionary experience. A doctor’s microscope reveals disease as the cause, undermining ancient charlatans and ending the witch doctor’s influence.
A traveler describes seeing abacuses used in shops in Finland and Reval Estonia. He recalls exchanging sovereigns at a bank and paying at a post office with sums tallied on the colored ball frame. He admits he is not a mathematician yet can compute totals first.
A Greenwood farmer wins radio reception from a saucepan on his electric range after a hole the size of a plate in his cottage door acts as an improvised antenna. Flo’s door hole, covered with wooden pitch, allows evenings of entertainment though no channel selection is possible.
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