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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1877
Page
2
The piece warns Nebraska farmers about eastern swindlers selling fake luxuries and patent rights. It cautions readers to distrust unusually low prices and sales pitches promising instant wealth and urges discernment between honest dealers and smooth talking liars seeking to steal money.
The piece contrasts Nebraska favorably with other states noting rains, no tornadoes, and absence of mobs while urging more cultivation and 200000 new farmers to settle in five years. It cites a crying woman seeking her drunken husband, grain prospects, and calls for farmers to move to market quickly.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate celebrates Illinois General Assembly action to pass the cruelty to animals act. It credits progress in civilization and rising public empathy for animals, noting shifts in moral perception, science, and literature since the French Revolution. July shipments report 2,500,000 pounds freight received at the Sidney depot.
The excerpt argues appearance matters in social circles and recommends Trall's Hair Re newer and Buckingham's dye for facial hair. Both products are sold at local drug stores, urging readers to note them if friends look worn.
In Polk County Nebraska a County Court session in Osceola on August 8 1877 presided by James W Snider reviews Urania A Seaman petitioning for letters of Administration for Peter H Seaman deceased. Hearing set for September 6 1877 at ten in the forenoon requires heirs and interested parties to appear and show cause, notice to be published in Osczona Recoup for three weeks prior to hearing.
The August issue showcases an illustration of Jews in Amafrica with thirteen engravings of ceremonies and portraits, plus pieces like A Run Along the Smyrna Coast by Leonard Scott and The Provisioning of Paris. It includes short stories and biographical paragraphs across 128 pages and is offered at $2 per year or 25 cents per issue by Frank Leslie's Publishing House.
The Pullman Palace drawing room cars are the only ones on this road for through trains between Chicago and St Paul Minneapolis Chicago and Milwaukee Chicago and Winona and Chicago and Green Bay. Connections at Chicago link to Lake Shore Michigan Southern Michigan Central B&O Pittsburg Ft Wayne Chicago Kanawkee Panhandle and Panhandle routes for all points east and southeast and with Chicago Alton and Illinois Central for points south. Union Pacific connections at Omaha for west. Tickets sold by coupon agents in U S and Canada. Request Chicago North Western Railway tickets only. NYC Broadway Boston San Francisco Chicago offices listed for rates and info via general agent William Stuxnet.
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