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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
7
A piece argues against sensational church promotion and circus like publicity in preaching. It critiques managers who hire singing and theatrics to attract crowds and questions life insurance company executives using policyholders’ funds to pad payrolls and create unnecessary positions.
The Spanish Navy considers a long term program to build new ships including torpedo craft and a limited number of cruisers. Proposals call for about 14 000 tons of cruisers with a 12 million dollar torpedo-boat program, funded by Cortes approval, raising tax concerns amid postwar burdens.
A harsh critique notes heads of families control big insurance firms and profit through private graft. It cites six Aer fees pulling $239000 yearly from Equitable and mentions President McCall and Vice Perks Buckner holding high paying posts while Mutual Life of New York finds no relatives.
The Milwaukee First National Bank suffered a $1.5 million loss due to theft by Bigelow with aid from a single subordinate, exposing weak director oversight. Directors pledged personal funds to cover the defalcation, highlighting failures in safeguarding depositors and shareholders.
The Washington Star notes sharp immigration in February and March with fifty thousand plus and over one hundred thousand arrivals at the New York port. It argues most newcomers are good material for citizenship, while Europe’s poorer classes are inspired by America’s land of opportunity.
The passage records a chaotic exchange where speakers debate food choices and cultural tensions. Bites of garbled phrases hint at gossipy banter about beef, fish, and delicacies, with mentions of a carving and a restrained appetite. The tone resembles a vivid, overheard social scene.
The head of the house samples a substantial piece of meat and questions the meal. He identifies the venison with currant jelly on the side and quips about his diet as his wife asks what is which.
An Osage elder speaker in Kansas laments the extinction of full blood Osages within twenty five years due to lifestyle changes from open plains travel to carriage use. He recalls the 1860s treaty selling Kansas lands and the ensuing wealth from annuities and land sales. A second paragraph humorously describes a Chinaman's elaborate, tobacco filled pipe process and the difficulty of lighting without matches.
The Kansas City Journal recalls a era when buffalo roamed west of the Osage nation in vast numbers. The speaker recounts buying 28,000 buffalo hides in a single year and notes younger tribal members hearing elders recount those days as a lasting tradition.
A famed drowning escape off Lundy Island is noted alongside an epitaph from Jamaica describing Lewis Gaidy Esquire who died September 22 1737 aged 80. Born in Montpelier France he fled his homeland for religion and survived a 1672 quake when swallowed by earth then tossed into the sea and rescued. He later gained reputation and died mourned.
A Washington note observes that a millionaire once could make a daring move, but in today’s high finance a single white chip holds little leverage, suggesting diminished odds for standout gambits.
Alfred Henry Lewis becomes editor of Human Life. John Vance Cheney to publish 300 Poems in book form next fall via Houghton Mifflin. Nancy Huston Banks to publish The Little Hills with Macmillan. Cosmopolitan home moves to New York. Twentieth Century Home in Irvington. Donald G. Mitchell still seen at 83. Charles Henry Webb known as John Paul dies at 70s. Henry James articles prompt mixed public reaction about Impressions and the American scene.
The late Capt. Alfred Rice was famed for personal cleanliness and strict discipline. He required his crew to be neat, correcting slovenly workers and endorsing clean white shirts only if kept spotless, a lesson he enforced with blunt remarks.
The wife of Rev. Lee Hong, pastor of the First Chinese Baptist Church in Philadelphia, will receive from about 150 local friends a silk cushion shipped to China as a gift. The cushion bears the Lord's prayer in gold Chinese characters, is yellow and black, fringed with silk strips bearing donors' names. Mrs. Lee Hong lives about twenty miles from Canton and has not seen her husband in five years.
A dialogue fragment discusses toning speech and using tactful wording. The exchange mentions a big overcoat in a hot closet and a rough shod horse producing noise comparable to an automobile, illustrating contrasts in comfort and sound.
A mother in law clashes with her daughter in law over wearing aprons in the city home. Mrs Borrow clings to old frugality and routines, while Gertrude pokes gentle fun and notes the changes in class and manners as the visiting matriarch adapts and ultimately smiles at aprons again.
A Boston Herald story notes tramp steamers carry bulk world trade, willing to haul coal in midwinter and other cargo for fair pay. It highlights the Massapequa, a British built ship owned largely by Americans, its 13 month voyage from New York to South America to the Far East and back to Boston, carrying hemp and avoiding Russian routes, with limited engine repairs.
The article compiles famed memory powers from Napoleon, Seneca, Druids, Wiegis the violinist, Racine, Granville, Cooke, Strazniky, Magliabechi, Mirandola, Cranmer, Leibnitz and Bossuet. It notes Napoleons ability to name a regiment after a single reading, and other rulers and scholars memorizing entire works, verses, or books.
The Sultan of Morocco may need to raise his $2 per head reward as enemies are slow to deliver heads. The note from the Cleveland Plain Dealer mentions the delay and adds a flippant aside about disliking tender cauliflower.
Mrs Powers Gouraud widow of a $3,000,000 estate heir, once Miss Gladys Crocker, is noted for an Egyptian costume hobby. A recent photo shows her in an ancient Orient robe with a costly ring hanging from her nose.
In Miss Cornelia Sorabji's Sun-Babies Pagal, a servant, adored by his master, bathes at the master's door step. He defends his acts by saying a slave must serve where the sahib resides, sparking a moment of quiet pride and tension as the mistress and servants react. Pagal drapes a mangled union jack as a toga and faces his accusers with a innocent smile.
A collection of notes on Ilinu sea weeds among Hawaii natives, waterfowl in English water reservoirs, a South African sighting of a whale near Table Bay, and a dockside sea monster seen by night watchmen. Also features on diabetes linked to railway travel and on flying fish, their predators, and unique flight. oxyacetylene blowpipes in France. and Alaska's brown bears as skilled salmon fishers with a mother bear leading catches.
General Nelson A Miles argues in Success Magazine that modern warfare is colossal and costly and calls for ending disputes by arbitration. He praises Japanese and Russian fighting qualities but urges a parliament of reason and a congress of nations to replace war.
In a brief exchange from the Cleveland Leader a child remarks on a deceased former husband of Dottie’s mother. The kid notes the man would have been Dottie’s stepfather, and that he isn’t welcome due to unkind behavior.
A Jersey reader debates the setting of The Three Musketeers, noting the novel’s French backdrop while a Jabez remark and commentary on holiday etiquette appear. The snippet also quips that some will forgive a Christmas gift yet not a wedding gift, and jokes about undertakers visiting sled friends.
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