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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1916
Page
2
Senate approves substitute for free sugar repeal extending 1 cent a pound duty through May 1920 by 40 to 32. Secretary Lansing denies troop withdrawal from Mexico. Villa's fate unclear as punitive expedition continues.
First Lieutenant Walter G Kilner, an expert aviator, serves in Captain Foulois grand squadron during the Mexico campaign. He is recognized among the top pilots for skill and leadership.
A barber offers a bottle of hair grower to a customer who then answers with a sharp line. The exchange reveals a joke about needing a divorce, delivered by a married man who remains silent afterward.
The quote reflects on a carefree childhood beneath a memory that can be touched for gentle issues. It evokes Eliot's voice recognizing enduring, tender recollections shared by readers.
Mr Chuggins recalls a shift from choosing a personal name to focusing on his numbers and business, saying he was too busy to think about names. He describes becoming interested in the automobile and keeping track of figures rather than naming.
A roundup of varied statistics and curiosities including cancer deaths rising to 78.9 per 100 000 in 1913, overall body composition, meat consumption, accident versus sickness costs, chemical waste in distilleries, a Minnesota pressman anecdote, word frequency in letters, and a German hydrogen peroxide process.
Governor John H. Morehead issues a proclamation designating May 14 as Mothers Day. He urges Nebraskans to honor their mothers with a flower, noting the long tradition of the second Sunday in May and calling on societies churches and individuals to observe the day. The proclamation is dated April 8 1916 and bears the state seal.
Deputy State Veterinarian McKim halted a Chadron sale after uncovering untested cows advertised for range stock. He tested eight animals at the sale and six at the ranch near Wayside, finding one tubercular. No cattle were sold.
State house chatter hints at a proposal to amend the constitution to form a new state body like the state board of control. The plan would place duties now handled by multiple commissions under one board, with governance by governor aligned officers.
The state insurance board limits expenditures of assessment hail insurers and grants a one year license to Nebraska Hail Insurance of Hastings if W M Franklin is not an officer. Licensing of Cooperative Hail Insurance at Grand Island is discretionary, with officers to be reported. Hastings paid 25 cents on the dollar. Grand Island 50 cents. The state banking board refuses a Creston State bank charter to limit bank numbers amid no new law. The boards previously ruled state banks chartered by reliable persons could not be refused.
Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of agriculture, will give the commencement address at the School of Agriculture in Lincoln on April 20. The graduating class has 98 members, the largest except last year, including 34 girls and 64 boys from 38 Nebraska counties, plus Iowa and Kansas represented.
American troops in México engage in their first battle near Parral in western Chihuahua as General Car ranza urges withdrawal. Major Tompkins and the Seventh Cavalry are involved with Mexicans in a Villa stronghold and a night skirmish follows. Reports of casualties are unofficial but indicate an American cavalryman killed and machine gun use.
Washington reports that the United States believes Germany in its submarine note virtually admits a submarine commander torpedoed the Sussex. President Wilson and Secretary Lansing studied the Berlin text and may take drastic action if Germany does not clearly admit the attack on the liner carrying more than twenty American citizens.
Comptroller Williams reports March 7 bank call shows total national bank resources at 13.838 billion dollars, deposits at 10 billion, loans up 999 million, surplus and profits up 18 million. Resources exceed Reichsbank and approach combined major European banks’ totals.
Cheng Yi governor of Sze Chuen says a truce with Tsai Ao leader of the Yunnan rebels is under negotiation. Tsai Ao demanded Yuan Shi Kai resignation as a peace condition, a demand Cheng Yi reported to Peking with a recommendation to compress. He warned that failure to resign could trigger Sze Chuen’s independence.
Judge Snyder in county court refused John Kirkman of Omaha an order to exhume John O Connor’s body citing insufficient evidence. Attorneys McKenzie and Harris represented Kirkman and said they would seek to establish heirship by comparing bone formation between the two bodies.
A manifesto issued last week by General Gonzales urges Mexican farmers in Peabla Morelos Tlaxcala Hidalgo and Oaxaca to plant fields to avert a nationwide cereal shortage. He promises a prize of 1000 dollars to the planter in each jurisdiction for the best field.
The Senate late Tuesday approved its substitute for the House free sugar repeal resolution, extending the 1 cent a pound duty on sugar to May 1920 by 40 to 32. Four Democrats Broussard Ransdel Newlands Lane joined Republicans against the substitute. The House had passed repeal. A sharp conference is anticipated.
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