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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
6
A compilation of diverse Nebraska notes reports guardianship of John Quinn by Lewis Lesure after court action amid neighbor complaints. It covers numerous accidents and incidents including runaways, fires, drownings, and injuries across Beatrice Creighton Grand Island Kearney North Platte DeWitt Oak Island Plattsmouth Riverton and other towns.
A cow wandered into the first floor of Miss Mamie Davis’s Little River Kansas home causing shock and disbelief. The rest of the clipping offers assorted home remedies and household tips, including baths with alcohol and oatmeal, scalp care suggestions, and cosmetic recipes.
Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot Ease a powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet and cures corns burrens biralien sore hot callous aching sweating feel ingrowing nails. Allen's Foot Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Sample mailed free address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY.
Use boiling water as soon as it reaches a full boil to prevent gas escape and keep the water from becoming flat. Waiting after initial bubbles risks loss of volume and altered texture.
FY. H. Green's Sons of Atlanta advertise as the only successful Dropsy Specialists worldwide and invite readers to view their liberal offer in a column of the paper.
Reports from Helsingfors and Sveaborg describe heavy cannonading, fires, and shortages as mutineers resist. White flag rumors spread on an island while loyal forces bombard fortifications and a powder magazine exploded. Casualties rise and civilians fear further bombardment.
New York reports that Mrs. William Thaw dismissed Black Olcott Gruber Bonynge and reengaged Hartridge as Harry Thaw faces murder charges in the Stanford White case. Family conflicts over defense strategy unfold as Thaw clings to a not guilty plea and possible unwritten law justification.
L A Thompson general manager and W W Mather foreman of Tempest Apex company were found dead under debris in a small tunnel half a mile from the Mickey Breen mine near Ouray Colorado. They disappeared a week ago and appear to have taken shelter in the tunnel during a cloudburst overwhelmed by rocks and dirt.
Chicago officials say John D. Rockefeller will not be served a subpoena to testify before the grand jury probing Standard Oil and railroad relations in Chicago. If he testifies, immunity from further prosecution would be required.
Walter Degarmo, jailed in Beaver City, faces wife desertion and bigamy charges after marrying Muss Luella Thompson in Furnas and Red Willow counties in a double ceremony. He admitted a prior marriage and lack of divorce, and was captured in Red Willow following a disappearance.
PLATTSMOUTH Neb W C Williams a Council Bluffs man who disappeared earlier was located near Oreapolis working for a farmer Williams says he did not desert his family and reports of his absence were unfounded He had gone to Plattsmouth and could not find work before taking a job nearby
Roland McDonald of Pell Nebraska admitted stealing a horse from his employer in a special district court session. He rode to Julesburg and traded it for another horse. The deputy county attorney said a guilty plea would yield a lighter sentence, and McDonald received a one year term.
Eli A Gage son of former Treasury secretary Lyman J Gage reportedly died by his own hand in a Seattle tourist hotel. He fired a 38 caliber revolver after drinking his wife hired detectives tracking him. He registered under an assumed name and left behind a bank statement showing $21 835. He had earlier worked as an auditor in Alaska and for the Northern American Trading and Transportation company.
Notes cover a monument in Auburn cemetery, Sofia adding English studies, William’s color photography, a straw mortarboard, London jokes on royal children, Bolton profits, a pheasant near a rifle range, Japanese rail bridges in Manchuria, an ash tray warning, a movable pulpit in Carlisle, Lord Curzon’s India viceroy dream, Senator Spooner’s smoking, snuff in Commons allowances, Arenenberg castle gifts from the Empress, and etymology of journal journey spanking and related words.
Newport Rhode Island reports the board of inquiry continues aboard the Illinois to study the collision between the Illinois and Alabama near Brenton's reef light ship. Damage includes bent shafts and gun deck damage on both ships. one Illinois seaman had a leg and an arm amputated after injuries. Both vessels to be repaired at a navy yard.
Major General Arthur MacArthur, commander of the Pacific division, arrives aboard the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria after an eighteen month absence in the Orient. He was sent by the president to observe Japanese operations during the Russo-Japanese War and served with the second army under General Oku.
William Weber a prominent government contractor died by his own action in Huntington after reportedly taking opium with suicidal intent. He had held the contract for a government building. His wife had committed suicide by drowning in the Sabine River at Beaumont Texas two months earlier, and grief was believed to have caused his death.
George W. Davis, an elderly farmer northwest of Humboldt Nebraska, was injured while working with a haying gang at his home when a large hay fork fork prong loosened and struck him near the temple, gouging a deep facial wound. He narrowly escaped a head injury and is expected to recover.
In 1850 William Cotton Oswell described his elephant hunt in Africa. An elephant charged, dust flew as a shot hit. The beast turned toward the hunter then joined its tremulous retreat. Oswell followed through thorny brush and forest, catching a wounded animal until the chase broke away.
The 18th century document records Apropos a slave in Newburyport and his family rights granted by Patrick Fraes. It details land and garden rights for life, an annual six pounds for accommodations, and a directive to Fraes’s heirs to aid Apropos and his family as needed.
A wart on the coast sees Clarence Barclay lead ferrets and terriers in a rat extermination in a building. The fight lasts days with ferrets driving rats into barrels, and a dramatic early morning run ending in the capture and dispatch of several rodents.
Fragmentary 19th century prose ponders aging and legacy as portraits fade and new ones form. It contemplates family memory, affection, and the tension between old and new generations in a reflective, archival tone.
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