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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1926
Page
7
William Winlock a colored elevator operator at the Federal building shares a personal philosophy. He says he mindst his own business for half the year and spends the rest respecting others. His courteous manner and willingness to help passengers are noted as character traits.
James Willard Schultz, author of Indian tales and member of an eastern aristocratic family, was adopted by the Blackfeet and spent most of his life among Native people. He lives in Glacier National Park and writes from Blackfeet surroundings while restoring original Indian names with U.S. government approval.
Kohler light plants 119 volts direct current storage batteries sold by Cummings and Miller Electric Co. as listed in a hardware or electrical supplies catalog.
Nebraska State Fair showcases exhibits valued at one million dollars housed in buildings costing another million. A modern free camp ground and a new kid friendly playground add comfort. A fifty thousand dollar program and racing events in horse and auto offer entertainment and sport. Top bands and voices perform as a stupendous night show and a fifty cent admission. About 300000 people will visit and 10000 will camp on the grounds.
Gustavus Hesselius born in Folkuna Sweden in 1682 is credited as the first recognized painter to practice in America. He arrived in 1711, worked in Philadelphia, received the first public art commission in 1721 for St. Barnabas Maryland, and died in 1755. His son John also became a portrait painter and taught Charles Willson Peale.
An aged cake marked fifty years delighted guests at a Trollywood wedding banquet. A Brussels antiquary hosted a feast with wheat from a pyramid era, butter from Elizabethan times, wine from a Corinth vault, and Pompeii apples eight centuries old. Irish Zoological Society members tasted eggs brought from China half a century earlier and praised their delicate flavor.
Cecilia Hill describes the French royal court’s elaborate pomp including meals watched by the public in the Salon du Grand Convert. Observers noted each dish and drink with ritual as crowds followed the king, queen, and princesses. Marie Antoinette, tired of this exposure, abolished the practice, earning the label revolutionary.
Needs Human Skill All the best china is still made on a potter's wheel and requires the skill of the human hand to give it the desired shape. From the wheel the formed dishes go to the gas furnace for the first rough firing lasting about three days. Cooling takes three days more to prevent cracking. Handles and attachments are added while clay is soft.
David Starr Jordan notes children expose uncomfortable truths about adults with blunt clarity. He recalls boarding a San Francisco train where a family settles in seat front of him and a girl jokes that once they depart others can discuss them.
Jutland in History notes Jutland’s ancient Jutes and Saxons, then describes the May 31, 1916 naval battle off Jutland where the German High Seas Fleet fled to its base, with the fleet not returning until surrender terms of November 11, 1918.
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