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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1923
Page
7
A vintage advertisement extols Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a universal cure for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It cites testimonials from a druggist and thousands of users claiming it relieves urinary issues neutralizes uric acid and aids rheumatism. Readers can order by mail from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY with a 10 cent offer.
William G Redfield recalls how President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson briefly gained access to the Bureau of Standards on a Sunday to view an all metal airplane. The custodian’s misstep left the couple locked out until a window gave them entry for the inspection.
A traditional advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria for children, claiming over 80 years of use to ease constipation wind colic and diarrhea, regulate the stomach and bowels and aid natural sleep without opiates. The genuine product bears a signature.
A group known for witty remarks comes together at a social gathering. The crowd appreciates clever statements and lively banter as conversations flow and music fills the room.
The narrative recounts Saint Louis’s costly Damietta campaign during the crusades, Joinville’s wounded stand on the bridge, ransom struggles with the Templars and the sultan’s host, and the king’s final Tunis voyage. It notes endurance, hunger, disease, and moral reflections on leadership and fate.
William A. Radford explains a low cost modern hog house with concrete floor and raised pens. The design emphasizes drainage, warmth, dry air, and reduced labor while protecting sows and piglets from cold and damp as spring pigs enter market.
The Concrete magazine notes bamboo treated with chemicals is used to reinforce concrete in Japan. Henry C. Hitchcock, American consul at Nagasaki, says the chemical treatments are known only to a few users. Untreated bamboo is used where sulfur in soil and air threatens decay, offering slower degradation than ordinary reinforcement.
A trust fund of 500 dollars created by the will of George Hart, theatrical lawyer of New York, is not awarded to the parrots. The case concerns the estate and its disposition under Hart’s will.
A new garden trowel features a saw toothed edge designed to cut thick weeds more efficiently. The tool aims to improve pruning and soil work in backyard beds.
The Appellate Division overruled a will provision to keep two parrots after the testator's death and ordered the executors to deliver them to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for humane care. The remainder of the will stood, including a $12,000 gift to the Society for Ethical Culture for sex hygiene education to children.
Scientists estimate the ocean’s age by comparing its sodium content to continental washings. The calculated range suggests the sea formed after Earth cooled sufficiently, dating it roughly between 80,000,000 and 170,000,000 years ago. The method reflects the uncertainties inherent in geological time calculations.
The weather bureau and Nebraska Wesleyan University researchers conclude no relation exists between barometric pressure and radio audibility at distant receiving stations. High static frequency and nearby thunderstorm activity can reduce audibility at the receiver.
The pilot fish, known for keeping company with ships and Tagger fishes, occurs in tropical and subtropical seas and the Mediterranean. Ancient Mediterranean seamen regarded it as sacred for guiding sailors and signaling land as it vanishes. Its color shows five to seven dark crossbands from back to belly.
Explorer Rev. John Chapman reports camel bones found along Yukon River in Alaska suggesting Miocene era camels originated in North America. Nebraska skeletons mounted in New York's American Museum support a broader prehistoric North American and North-South range before Bering Strait connections.
A line from Jane Doe's Through the Glad Eyes of a Woman argues matrimony can transform a dud, rake, or cad into a husband who will later appear more reasonable and respectable. The quote contrasts romantic writers with reality.
Builders of a bat-wing plane claim to cut engine loss from struts wires and fuselage by an internally trussed cantilever aerofoil. The 100 foot wingspan aircraft features a double chambered airfoil with a 30 by 8 by 6 foot cabin, tapering tail, and a wood veneer wing canopy rated to bear weight.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap as improving razor efficiency and promoting skin purity comfort and health. It claims no mugging, slimy soap, germs, waste, or irritation even with twice daily shaving and offers one soap for shaving bathing and shampooing.
Two Scotch Presbyterians from Scotland met at a church service and recalled a preacher who once delivered a three hour sermon. He admitted fatigue but said the audience seemed exhausted yet the scene would have pleased their hearts.
A vintage ad copy promotes Red Cross Ball Blue soap for whitening children’s handkerchiefs. It urges washing with good soap and rinsing in water blue to revive dull fabrics.
In a rehearsal of What Every Woman Knows James Barrie nearly broke discipline by laughing at Godfrey Tearle as John Shand delivered a line about embarrassing the government. Barrie could not resist the moment and improvised, joking about the government while the cast held.
In England progress on spiritualism draws about 13 000 attendees at services and Sunday schools. Efforts to turn some into mediums have provoked strong attacks supported by well known persons.
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