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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
1
The article argues for truly balanced rations in livestock and humans amid high prices and profiteering. It contrasts pure bred farming with scrubs and warns that overemphasis on animals risks neglecting child nutrition and national welfare. It criticizes profiteers and government laxity while noting related local notices on surgery, vacations, and farm construction.
A battle colors banner from the 1746 Culloden conflict fetched £750 in a London antiques sale, bought by a Glasgow buyer. It belonged to Sir James Kinloch’s battalion, the Second of Lord Ogilvy’s regiment, and is thought the only banner captured from the young pretender’s defeated army. The rest of the colors were burned at Edinburgh.
The Polk County Fair Association offers 50 in cash premiums for top horseshoe pitchers during the County Fair. A meeting is called at Osceola on Saturday evening August 28 at 8 oclock to set rules for the tournament. All interested players urged to attend at the Surety Invest Co office on the northwest corner of the square, signed E. H. Lindquist.
Local notices detail trips by Polk residents to Omaha Stromsburg Lincoln Julesburg and North Platte. Farm activity includes a tractor sale, a new flour and feed warehouse and a harvest week firemen event. Updates on baptist association travels and local marriages close the report with social and legal anecdotes.
Polk County Nebraska notifies voters of a special election on September 21 1920 to authorize bonds totaling 125000 for a county court house. Bonds run 15 years at 5.5 percent with a 5 mill levy to fund interest and principal, issue date January 1 1921. County Clerk John Sjoblom issues the notice.
Stromsburg page recounts visits by Miss Marjorie Heabloom and others, travel notes from N L Nelson and Earl Wright, and community events. The report covers church camp meetings, births, a new barn under construction, local business openings, and residents traveling to Omaha and Lincoln. It notes a Ford sales venture, parade fireworks led by Deacon Hedbloom, and local anecdotes including Charlie Holm’s long residency.
Saturday to Thursday trips include Guy and Harlan Carlson visiting Grand Island. Mr and Mrs J F Knerr and Miss Nona Knerr go to Wheatland Wyoming with plans to visit daughter Mrs D B Brig ham and family. Miss Knerr works in department grades at the school there. Last week community rain measured six inches with runoff. Miss Winona Bergren visits Omaha with Agnes Newcomer. Mrs Lloyd Hollister travels to York to be with her ill mother. Helmer Peterson plows for J G Rosdahl who will farm part of the land next year. Rosdahl will occupy house and some land. L W Class visits Miss Nona Knerr before Wyoming trip. social follows with a token gift. Glenn Severine plows for Chas Newcomer who will farm next year. Ladies Aid meets at Mrs Clyde Austin’s with hostess Mrs Wayne Rystrom. Lawrence Campbell drove his sister’s car from Central City to Harrington Kansas.
Evelyn records seventeenth century Quaker hunger demonstrations in Ipswich prison during July 1656. He notes one prisoner lasted twenty days. another attempting the feat died on the tenth day unable to eat.
Dale Lewis nine, son of Mr and Mrs Bert Lewis, survived a near fatal incident Sunday afternoon when a car driven by Arthur S Nelson halted before passing over his head. He suffered facial lacerations and an exposed eye but is believed to recover barring infection or shock. The accident occurred near the Lewis home after a chautauqua program as cars left the grounds. Witnesses said speed was moderate and blamed street crowding for the near miss. The Record calls for better traffic police cooperation to prevent future incidents on the square.
The Northern Kansas and Nebraska Christian Conference will be held at Wayland church in Hackberry August 26 29 1920. Sessions run Thursday through Sunday with morning afternoon and evening programs daily. A chicken dinner and supper will be served by Merry Workers in the church basement on Friday and Saturday. Public invited to attend and stay all day.
Archie McClung and Bernice McGrew were married Tuesday August 24 at the United Brethren Parsonage in Shelby. Rev G T Lavery performed the ceremony in the presence of D S Andrews and the couple plan a short honeymoon to Colorado before settling on a farm two miles south of Shelby.
Lindsey holds the small hen and aims to make it bow its head toward the ground. Her father discovers the scene and asks what she is doing. The girl replies she is teaching the hen to say her prayers. The father sighs and hopes the hen will say Now I say me.
Reports estimate sulphur-dioxide fumes from waste dumps around nickel mines in Sudbury Ontario reach about 1000 tons daily. No effective method to capture or reduce this sulphur is available yet.
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