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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1922
Page
6
Washington scientist Dr. W. J. Humphreys explains in the Smithsonian annual report how rain dries the air and why the sun can rise before it is up and set after it is down. He cites atmospheric convection, evaporation, and refraction as the bases for these paradoxes.
Gillette residents declare open season on rattlesnakes. Betty Carter leads, with 56 snakes killed in Pleasant Hill, closely followed by Dick Bell and Bill Jones who have slain 64 from two dens.
New York leads with 9.07 billion in total income 1919 and state per capita income averages 874 dollars while Nevada lingers at 65.8 million. The report by the National Bureau of Economic Research analyzes regional patterns, farming shares, and the concentration of income across the United States.
John Brakke first officer on the Manitowoc weds Anna Vivdenko a Russian stowaway after immigration officials suspend deportation for six months and the State Department waives passport rules for humanitarian reasons. Anna a vocalist and Evguenia a actress had hidden aboard to seek a new life in the United States.
Elkhorn mourns three headed kittens Wyncken Blinken and Noda from Dr. L H Coulson's cat family. Born joined as one body with three heads the trio showed rare oddity until their mother left, bringing sadness to the town and owner.
The article promotes building a modest, well designed home for limited budgets. It highlights a bay window dining room feature, a six room layout with two porches, 10 by 10 foot bedrooms, and a large front porch, stressing quality materials and good credit. It notes costs vary locally and advises consulting contractors for estimates.
Judge Neterer in Seattle ruled Agnes Clafy aged sixteen inherits $9000 from her uncle Clarence Swank a soldier killed in action in the Argonne. Swank had named his mother and then his heiress in France before death and mother died soon after. The judge cited Julius Caesar noting such wills are carried out though written on a weapon or in sand.
A Black magazine writer argues Pepys’s Diary shows intimate letters but his real skill as a writer lay in private scribble to himself. The piece notes Pepys the industrial official hid behind the pen when writing to friends, keeping his style fresh and fearless.
A dramatic claim during Jefferson’s Louisiana purchase talks described a vast salt mountain north of New Orleans near the Mississippi river. It was said to be 180 miles long, 45 miles wide, with no trees and streams of salt water from its base, a tale later mocked by political opponents as a fairy tale.
Carl W. Mitman, curator of the United States National Museum, told the Horological Institute of America that watchmaking sparked modern industry. James Watt, who invented the Separate Condenser, started as a watchmaker and later built the steam engine. George Stevenson, engineer, earned extra by repairing neighbors’ watches and clocks.
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