Dress Goods in Town Noted as High Priced Item
Fragmentary report notes high priced dress goods in town and mentions a MUS note of concern about who will hold the sale or account for the purchases.
13 Aug 1903
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
1
Fragmentary report notes high priced dress goods in town and mentions a MUS note of concern about who will hold the sale or account for the purchases.
Osceola dates show a bustling mix of births weddings and community updates. local visits from doctors professors and merchants mix with fair preparations school board actions and upcoming attractions including a large county fair and a regional baseball tournament.
Health forces sale of My Millinery Hair Good and Racket Stock. Citizens urged to buy several dollars of goods to keep the store in town. A 10 percent discount is offered for purchases of three dollars or more, aimed at reducing stock within ten days or until a purchaser is secured. Mrs EF Ei Griggs signs the notice.
15 good yearling Short Horn bulls offered at low price for the next weeks. They should weigh 800 to 900 pounds. Visitors welcome to inspect whether buying or not at 1 H. and C. E. Mickey.
The republican electors of Osceola Precinct are called to meet at the Court House on Friday August 14 1903 at 4 30 p m to select delegates to the County Convention and nominate a precinct ticket. Gilbert Johnson Commissioner
A Scots laird jokes of sheltering with sheep in a storm and a shepherd replies that if he were a sheep he would lie in the shelter. The tale pivots to a greyhound racing claim noting a top speed near twenty yards per second and about a mile per minute, rivaling a carrier pigeon.
An old chronicle notes that the King of Italy owns a vast stable of about 200 horses. The stalls line a double row, forming a street like passage. Each animal bears its name in large white letters above the manger, highlighting a prized horse once known as Humber.
Lincoln Star details the Methodist Episcopal Church’s vast properties and finances: 3 million members, 28 000 buildings, 12 500 parsonages, total wealth about 146 million dollars, annual running cost 24 million, 225 educational institutions, and 50 000 in attendance last year. It notes Freedman’s Aid Society with 43 seminaries and colleges, Civil War history of training 200 000 colored people, and 2 million dollars spent on benevolence. It lists press and publishing milestones, 17 500 preachers, global missions, and a 21 million bank offering in the twentieth century movement.
An experienced lightning rod salesman denies public fraud stereotypes about rod men, insisting integrity after thirty years in business. He promotes seven strand steel cable rods, claims rust proof and durable, and offers ready materials for immediate installation on houses or barns.
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