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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1909
Page
3
A New York Times writer recalls a Civil War era incident where a young lieutenant rebukes a venerable veteran dressed in faded blue. The veteran, claiming thirty five years in the service, proves the value of salutes and etiquette in military life.
A Baltimore Sun report quotes a physician describing Papuan hair fashions in New Guinea. One group wears seven inch upright hair greased with coconut oil and painted red resembling a rising sun. Another style features hair brushed back to waist forming a dense mass like a cap with a downward visor. A third fashion gathers hair to create a basket shaped cylinder atop the head with ends spread outward.
A New York rancher recalls a humorous yet embarrassing scene in a big store. He argues with clerks who mock his attempt to read a price tag while a girl at a desk and a floor walker scrutinize him. The tale ends with him vowing to avoid challenging clerks again.
Speech fragments feature a candidate promising to reflect voters’ will and a rejoinder from a commentator about counting words. The quirky exchange hints at political rhetoric and public talk in a district setting with observers reacting to the dialogue.
The ballad recounts Lord Lovel's departure for distant lands to win Nancy Belle's love. Upon returning, he finds Nancy dead and, in grief, dies himself, with their entwined roses symbolizing a tragic true lover's knot. The stanzaic tale preserves desire, death, and a haunted union at St Pancras.
An electric motor is described as a general household helper saving the housekeeper time. It can power a meat chopper and connect to washing machines gas mangles wringers coffee mills sewing and grinding machines ice cream freezers and more. The unit mounts on an adjustable stand is one-eighth horsepower portable and fully enclosed for safety.
The Wolcott Hotel will begin daily finger nail care for staff in contact with guests. Miss Cora Rarker, official manicure, will trim clean polish and file nails from 9:30 am to 5 pm. The service, free of charge, follows a management push for tidier appearance. Two waiters immediately requested treatment Serath Carros and Antipolus Choganos praised the process.
A collection of short vignettes about children and parental or teacher guidance. The stories feature Fred and Edgar debating honesty and prayers, a math riddle about a pie, and Clifford craving cookies at his grandma’s house with humorous defiance.
An article notes the evolution of railroad safety devices, focusing on the subway death button. It explains the device's placement in the motor controller handle, its spring‑loaded plunger, and how it automatically cuts current to stop trains if a motorman is incapacitated.
Excerpt discusses a married man hiding income with a keen sense of running and concealment. It notes his wife’s perceptive knowledge of his deception. The New York Herald comments on prudent financial judgment and caution in backing stock markets.
Ancient Egyptians molded stones into beetle shapes as symbols of immortality and the afterlife. Counterfeit beetles were buried with the dead, bearing inscriptions wishing future repose, happiness, and soul dedications to God. Other carvings included a hawk with two human heads for resurrection, a vulture for maternity, and a goose signifying the son of a king.
The Yonkers Statesman notes experiments on bacon and sugar revealing sugar’s potential as a muscular energy source for French army provisions. Egbert comments that this is a fact and Jos observes the sugar trust’s strength.
A nameless speaker debunks the idea of college education as a fast track to riches. He recalls losing his first job after attempting to correct an employer's grammar, arguing that wealth comes more easily through marriage than through schooling.
A collection of brief anecdotes and wry observations from clergy and layfolk. The pieces sketch misunderstandings between bishops and laypeople, a sculptor’s humor, Rossetti and political apathy, waiter tipping, a blind chaplain’s courtship of the Senate, an Italian’s view of church music, and Bishop Brooks’s joke about new religions and customs duties.
A columnist describes East Side work patterns where laborers juggle two jobs and long hours. A factory man on Essex Street rests only briefly between shifts at a slaughterhouse, a theater usher, and a downtown office cleaner, while his wife labors sixteen hours daily for six families. Similar cases include police officers doubling as dance-hall enforcers.
Florence Augustine argues Americans vary in dialects yet share stubborn pride in local idioms. She cites Massachusetts Virginia South Carolina and the West as evidence that a universal standard faces no near danger from regional speech pride and a New York dictionary.
Yale University’s Warren W Hilditch studied highly worn money from railroads, theaters, banks and stores and found bacteria counts from 14 000 to 586 000 per bill with an average of 142 000 in 21 bills He inoculated guinea pigs but saw no illness He cautioned that conclusive proof requires hundreds or thousands of bills from hospitals sick rooms and drug stores A bank teller doubted money as a common transmission route.
A shipboard scene in New York features an English traveler listening to locals quiz him about the world’s tallest building while Americans relay its height and floor count. The exchange ends with amused restraint as the visitor prepares to boast to others.
A brief quip from the Houston Post frames plans about summer travel. The speaker recalls a resort last year described as heaven and admits choosing a new destination this year to meet men.
Bosioi Traveler notes that business has paused as the new filing system 2a receives attention. The exchange highlights concern over operational disruption and the need for effective implementation.
A historical line sketches life as a sentence tied to hard labor with a twist of improved conduct. The note hints at penal discipline and behavior incentives in past institutions.
Readers encounter notes on gliss building blocks in Silesia and a wide array of topics from rubber cultivation challenges in Britain to aluminum power in Scotland. The passage mentions population trends in Mussix, limited rail in Colombia, and Berlin’s Unter den Linden as a hub, along with assorted anecdotes and inquiries into eclipses, shipping barrels, pauper statistics in England, and Arctic temperature records.
A recipe for a dessert called Prime Jelly uses prunes cooked until soft, stones removed, and prunes pressed into a mold. It blends a jelly made from sherry lemon juice orange juice and gelatin dissolved in water, served with whipped cream.
Readable lines describe an apple fritters batter with one cup flour one teaspoon baking powder two tablespoons sugar two thirds cup milk one beaten egg two medium apples sliced. Sift dry ingredients add milk and egg then fold in apples. Drop spoonfuls into hot fat drain and serve with maple syrup.
Mix two or three tablespoonfuls arrowroot with half a pint cold water and pour off the water after it clears. Stir in pounded sugar boil a pint of milk and pour gradually over arrowroot stirring well until it thickens. Water may be used with lemon essence and a touch of nutmeg.
The recipe instructs cutting pork into small squares and parboiling. Soak five chiles, deseed and wash, grind with garlic pepper cloves and tomato. Fry the paste in hot lard, add meat and cooking liquid, season with salt, cover and simmer until thick.
Mixed hot boiled hominy with a small crenel and three beaten eggs and two tablespoons sugar. Bake in ramquins until custard sets. Top with crumbled popcorn melted butter and a touch of sugar, return to oven to brown lightly. Serve with sweetened cream or honey and maple syrup.
Sift corn meal graham flour and salt and sugar. Mix batter with sour milk and cream or substitute sour cream with melted batter. Bake in hot greased muffin tins using mixed fats.
To prepare tongue or meat place in a pan with water to cover. Add brown sugar salt saltpeter and garlic. Boil then cool before returning meat to pickle. Turn daily for three fortnights until ready.
Cut beef skin into small slices and marinate in vinegar. Stew slowly without water for three to four hours until tender and full of gravy. Serve with small roast on forms and braised carrots.
Instructions describe wrapping each apple in newspaper and packing in a box then storing in a cool place. Apples will stay usable for three to four months with this method.
A collection of practical cleaning tips from an old newspaper fragment. Advice covers stove grease removal with vinegar, ammonia on marble, wallpaper blemishes with pencil eraser, easing bureau drawers with soap, lemon peel odor control, wool brushes care, turpentine for pipes, oven cooling by drafts, starch for iron marks, lemon salt for copper, oxalic acid for canner and brass, India rubber hot water bottle cleaning, alcohol for grease stains, and soap washing to prevent clothing stiffness.
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