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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1927
Page
4
Readers are informed of a General Motors sale highlighting seven GM cars with savings from large scale production. The notice promises features like engines Fisher Bodies and Duco finish, plus a free illustrated book on the GM Proving Ground to aid choice and potentially save money. Act today by clipping and mailing the coupon.
The notice promotes a CHEVROLET TRUCK CHASSIS in a six or one ton class with a strong 6 cylinder engine, smooth dry-disc clutch, overhead valve design, Alemite lubrication and Duco finish. It highlights Fisher Bodies, styling, and full equipment at $395 for %ton and $495 for 1 ton.
The ad promotes Oldsmobile 11 models priced from 875 to 1190 and 7 models from 1095 to 1295. It highlights Fisher Bodies with Duco finish, a powerful six cylinder motor, harmonic balancer, rubber silenced chassis, and 4 wheel brakes. It claims advanced engineering and precision construction as a GM product.
General Motors highlights Buick line claiming "The Greatest Buick Eyes Built" with vibrationless performance. Advertised features include a famous six-cylinder valve-in-head engine and bodies by Fisher with a Duco finish across many models.
General Motors presents a stylish new Cadillac model described as a fine car. It features a V8 engine and Fisher bodies with a showy finish. The car is now on display.
The ad touts Cadillac as the pioneer of eight cylinder engines and the standard of the world with an improved V type 90 degree engine. It notes marvellous bodies by Fisher and Fleetwood and Duco finishes offering 500 different color and upholstery combinations to emphasize individuality in ownership.
Miss Dorothy Koehler joined Nebraska Gas & Electric Company while Neola Miller moved to the county treasurer and county clerk’s office. Epworth League Easter breakfast planned. 7 a.m. hymn service with 8 a.m. breakfast, no evening meeting. The Farmers State Bank reports deposits up since January. Community notices include sales, club meetings, a missionary tea, and various local ads and personal notices. пол
Report of the Condition of THE FARMERS STATE BANK of Osceola Nebraska as of March 28 1927 shows total assets of 260 453 95 and total liabilities 260 453 95. It lists loans and discounts 192 830 58 bonds securities 200 00 cash in bank 4 561 68 U S bonds 3 200 00 and deposits 170 - detailed figures provided.
The piece outlines a range of bark used in early medicine, noting 17 officinal barks in the US Pharmacopoeia and 35 varieties employed in homemade remedies. It highlights cinchona for quinine, buck thorn bark cascar asagrada as a purgative, and barks aiding secretions, soothing sore throats, and tonic claims.
The article recounts quirky habits of composers: Haydn dressed for creativity with powdered hair and a diamond ring from Frederick II, writes on fine paper. Gluck had his piano in a meadow with champagne. Paesillo wrote in bed. Sachini claimed inspiration only with his two cats perched on his shoulders.
Naturalist Melia J. Akeley notes that colobus monkeys in the forest begin morning and daytime song fests with a troop leader directing the emotional expression by varying pitch. Other troops in the area join in, causing the green rafters to ring with their remarkable sounds.
Joseph Conrad writes to a cousin on January 21 1898 three days after his son's birth. The doctor calls the child magnificent with dark hair and huge eyes the writer jokes the baby resembles a monkey and notes his wife claims the child resembles him with a hint of playful doubt.
A man named Brown travels south to visit his son and wife for weeks. Mrs Brown drills him in table manners as part of their curriculum. At dinner Brown pours coffee into a saucer and quips that down south he will drink his wife out of the cup.
The first English sparrows arrived in 1850 imported by Nicholas Pike and Brooklyn Institute directors to protect shade trees from caterpillars. Eight pairs were released the next spring but none survived. A further shipment occurred in 1838, followed by fifteen more voyages to the United States over the next two decades.
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