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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1927
Page
6
A London Tit-Bits item recounts an ostrich at a zoo that swallowed five yards of stout rope left in its cage. The keeper freed the bird after a struggle, but the incident underscores the bird’s appetite for unusual items.
A Pathfinder Magazine passage explains that the ancient key to a city symbolized real access when walls surrounded European towns. Surrendered cities gave the keys to conquerors and gates closed at night, shaping the modern ceremonial gesture of granting a key to distinguished visitors.
The article discusses Hippos Susita as a Decapolis city in Palestine with uncertain exact location. It lay opposite Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee and gave its name to the surrounding region Hippene.
The finest cashmere shawls come from Cashmere in Asia north of the Punjab. Sheep and goats in the Himalayan range supply wool for shawls. Punjab’s top industry is shawl making, with Antvitzur noted for the best, though Cashmere shawls surpass all others.
Dora interviews her fiancé in the drawing room after he asks to marry her. The father consents quickly while the mother, unsure and wary, disapproves and worries that the actor’s profession makes him seem effeminate.
A Washington man recalls the tale of an old English tenant who saved scarce wealth to protect handed down treasures. He refused to sell books worth $4,000 to aid a sick friend found on a park bench, choosing personal privation over parting with his legacy.
Hindu pilgrims performing prostrations around a sacred site carry a stone and mark their length by lying flat and stretching arms to drop the stone. They rise, walk to the stone, and repeat the process for miles. Circuits exceed three miles and can take a full day, with about a thousand prostrations per mile and hundreds of kilograms of strain.
Napoleon jokes about women influencing men more than he realizes. He notes women have changed since his return from Elba and now talk politics rather than clothes. Queen Hortense’s memoirs are cited as source for the remark.
Della J. Akley notes in the Saturday Evening Post that trained monkeys living with humans become outcasts among their wild kin. Escapes lead to attacks or death, and observers report wild monkeys chasing pets and even an execution. She compares monkey hatred and suspicion to human social dynamics.
The American badger inhabits pine forests to dry lowlands and northern plains where small mammals abound. It is a powerful digging machine able to catch mice, gophers, ground squirrels, and prairie dogs. Though related to weasels it is slower and relies on strength and courage, has short legs, and fights fiercely when cornered.
A childhood memory recounts a western town smallpox epidemic. A pest wagon halted before a home as two men in rubber coats approached. A child fled to a culvert, later learning the illness that struck his family.
In Polk County Nebraska a petition for probate of the last will of Anna Kropatsch has been filed. Oswald J. Kropatsch is named as executor and a hearing is set for May 7, 1927 at 10 AM in the County Court. Dated April 12, 1927.
Notice to creditors heirs and interested parties that the Polk County Court has filed a petition to declare Olof Anderson deceased intestate and owner of a described NW NE 28 14 3 land parcel. The hearing is set for May 2 1927 at 10 A M in the County Court room. no administrator appointed and heirs listed Lotta Anderson widow. Judge W W Norton seals the notice.
Andrew J. Swanson deceased. petition filed for appointment of Albert J. Swanson as administrator of the estate. Hearing set for April 22, 1927.
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