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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1901
Page
2
The Osceola Record cites Count Boni de Castellane and Gould money in discussing mummies purchase. The piece mockingly contrasts Jay with grave expressions and endorses benevolent acts in line with Carnegie’s generosity.
The piece argues that regardless of Cuba's future, its enduring debt stems from the U.S. military occupation, which it says has driven extensive sanitary regeneration of the island.
A critical aside notes that the Chinese focus on paying the indemnity principal reflects a lack of modern financial literacy. The author argues for broader economic reforms and learning in finance.
Mr Findlay an Australian editor and MP republished a Dublin paper critique of King Edward. For this act his parliamentary seat was terminated, underscoring tensions between free speech and free press abroad.
The writer notes England under Queen Victoria shows national progress and questions why the Russian Czar requires a male heir. He highlights the Czar has an eldest daughter who is bright and capable, and argues he could declare her heir apparent if he wishes to please himself.
The text argues that easing rural labor and adding services like good schools telephone and rural mail delivery bring farmers closer to the world. It claims these changes raise refinement and inspiration, making farmers better and happier stronger citizens.
A Springfield Republican writer compares modern youths chasing wealth to playing marbles for keeps. He notes many use wheat corn or railroad stocks instead of marbles, each dollar won costing another. He defends early training and urges parents to guide boys toward balanced success.
A man who "borrows" another’s umbrella faced legal trouble in Indiana. An umbrella thief was fined one dollar, sentenced to the reform school, and disfranchised for five years. The piece compares umbrella borrowing to horse theft and praises the judge’s rebuke.
The article argues that rum gunpowder and tobacco are not the only evils of civilization. It notes Hawaiians once content with coconut oil attire now adopting hats coats and trousers, leading to health concerns from damp clothing and colds. It urges colonial statesmen to limit fashion to suit tropical climate.
The article notes that two decades ago most immigrants to the United States came from Western and Northern Europe. It describes them as industrious and thrifty, dispersing across Western and Northwest farms. They spoke various languages and adapted to American free institutions, becoming British Americans, Irish Americans, German Americans, and French or Swedish Americans.
A 19th century opinion piece condemns Eastern and Southern European arrivals as illiterate and concentrated in cities. It argues older immigrants assimilated faster and warns that crowded shiploads burden the public, urging restrictive legislation to curb new arrivals.
The piece notes farm progress from machinery to rural mail and interurban railways, then highlights Wisconsin legislator Mr Frost proposing laundries at creameries to lift the burden of washing and ironing from farmer wives, arguing power from creameries could run the operation and ease rural life.
A varied survey notes tides at Panama averaging two feet, a Porto Alegre meteorite towering fifty six by eighty five feet, and a label pasting machine for cans. It mentions glucose dangers, urban beekeeping in Chicago, blood composition, famed authors, and the U S Supreme Court clinging to quill pens.
A Waterville physician believes he deserves the prize for the champion absent minded man after a woman discovered a mistaken payment. She had paid a $10 bill with his checkbook but he mistook it for a receipt and never noticed until she checked the paper at home.
A Detroit area incident reports an elderly landowner admiring a vacant lot when a rainstorm prompts him to seek shelter. A woman on the next porch accuses him of stealing her umbrella, but he explains he found it, offers to buy it, and she insists on keeping watch over his lot as he leaves.
Father Odenbach at St Ignatius College Cleveland perfects a recording device that logs lightning flashes before they are visible. A copper roof and copper lightning rod feed a recorder in the tower, proving accurate during clear skies and storms, promising improved meteorological forecasting.
Seven hundred artisans backed by Clarence H. Mackay and directed by Mrs. Mackay begin construction of a sprawling country home near Roslyn L I, said to be the most beautiful in America. Work already is well underway amid wilderness surroundings.
The wooded hills near Mrs Clarence Mackay’s estate become a grand land of enchantment as plans unfold for a vast project. The estate rivals Central Park in size and costs may reach about 5 million dollars. The gateway lodge alone is budgeted at 150000 dollars. The granite structure spans 235 feet by 100 feet and is designed as a palace in every aspect.
The article describes St Peter's Cathedral in Rome as the largest in the world built on the site of St Peter’s grave. It notes interior length 61214 English feet, transept 41614 feet, dome diameter 1938 feet, dome height 448 feet. Construction began 1450 D, dedicated 1626, finished 1880. Forty three Popes lived and died during the building. The cost is set at 70000000 dollars.
Fashion note highlights white stockings as chic yet emphasizes the need for clean, spotless appearance to maintain fashionable impact.
A London News summary describes Abdul Hamid’s life as a mix of Western veneer and Oriental core. He shuns national affairs, guards meals, tastes poison with officials watching, and keeps pets to test first morsels. His nerves are fragile, fears darkness, keeps royal guards awake, drinks champagne, and seeks sensational novels for relief. He excels in rifle and pistol practice.
Chester T. Drake of Chicago unveils a street paving plant that both mixes cement and crushed stone with water and deposits the prepared concrete along the roadbed. Powered by a motor, the unit includes a central blade mixer, a long swinging conveyor, and a small crew to feed, guide, and operate, reducing the need for traditional mixing platforms and wheelbarrows.
Michael Cavanagh of Boston notes the shamrock, Ireland’s emblem, grows across the United States and in a Washington park. He compares it to clover, describing the shamrock’s five yellow-stemmed blossom and three heart shaped leaves.
At supper time a guest lingers as the hostess ponders whether to offer a stay and the guest wonders if an invitation will come. The scene centers on social tension and expectations during a shared meal.
A historical survey tracing diamond lore from Pliny and Plato to fifteenth century polishing methods. The piece covers ancient beliefs about the diamond’s virtues, alchemical theories, mystical mineralogy, and notable thinkers like Carfan, Theophrastus, Dioscorides, Avicenna, Albertus Magnus, and Aquinas as they relate to gems and their supposed powers. It cites Lippincott's Magazine as a source.
In a Tit-Bits vignette a young man, drawn into a family plan, faces a match arranged by Sarah's mother who accepts him despite his modest means. The mother projects a supportive home life and hints at a May 20 wedding, while the suitor frets over his fate and contemplates drastic ends.
A Vienna law punishes insulting public officials, including tramway workers. After a tram overturned an omnibus, passenger Frau Sidonie Lankh insulted the driver and was fined £1 13s 4d for insulting a public official, despite suffering injuries herself.
The Netherlands tops the world as the nation of smokers with an average of 160 ounces per person per year. Belgium is second, then Turkey at 70 ounces, and the United States at 60 ounces, with Germany France Spain and Italy close behind and the United Kingdom at 23 ounces.
The remark notes women adopting white gloves resembling pallbearer attire and calls widowed women the sole appealing source of second hand goods, reflecting social class shifts and market irony.
Germany develops lance boats for cavalry use with rapid setup and reduced manpower, saving fodder costs estimated at 187 500 dollars yearly. Sweden’s Count Posse designs boat stopping apparatus to prevent collisions. Bergen reports experiments on a steam launch for 160 persons with a new starboard and port shutter system that can stop a vessel quickly, with patents in major nations.
Webster Jones of San Francisco advertised lessons from a young French woman at a Paris hotel. A crowd of about five hundred Parisian women formed in the corridor and street, leading to police protection for a day. Jones fled to another hotel and retired from the venture.
The article discusses long standing speculation on hot water lakes and a subterranean heat source feeding the Gulf Stream. It notes a hypothetical underground channel delivering vast water that turns to steam, erupts, then returns to the surface as a perpetual warm current. It calls the Gulf Stream an engaging subject for study.
More than 200 phonographs were sent to Damascus and Jerusalem and nearby areas. Moslems in Beirut Jerusalem and Damascus are said to be the best customers for talking machines. A Beirut firm bought a $300 windmill from an Illinois company and will set it on the Bakaa Plain. The firm foresees a market for windmills and irrigation machinery in Palestine and Syria amid foreign investment. Some foreigners, mostly Jews, are linked to back to Jerusalem ideas promoted by Israel Zangwill.
A brief political exchange features two politicians debating the Republic's danger and their role in preserving it. The dialogue centers on continual public service through elections and their stated commitment to "save it" indefinitely.
A rural saying notes that a town horse balks at a threshing machine while a country horse flees an electric car, illustrating different reactions to modern equipment in rural life.
A curious old saying notes that before steel pens existed, people used the pinions of geese to disseminate ideas, a vivid metaphor for primitive means of communication and the human urge to share thoughts.
Frank Stineman, nineteen, of White Oak near Lancaster, became violently insane last Wednesday due to excessive cigarette smoking. He had quit months earlier on doctor’s advice but resumed recently. his condition is critical.
John I. Boyer of Trinity Springs Indiana declares on September 15 1900 that Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal for coughs and colds.
A Galway voter received a strong smelling hare from a candidate just before elections. The donor insisted there was no bribery, insisting the gesture was only a “matcher of corruption” and the voter refused the hare despite the ruse.
Advertisement notes a money back refund if the medicine fails to cure. The box bears BE. W. Grove's signature and is priced at 25 cents.
Wolves surge in forest regions of Northern Canada as deer herds expand nationwide. Increased deer populations fuel a rise in predatory wolves, triggering concern among wildlife observers and local communities.
A Birmingham woman fainted at a circus and was carried home by a cab, a doctor was called and she regained consciousness. The doctor placed a thermometer between her lips and told her to keep her mouth shut for a few minutes, while her husband quipped about the price of the “little jigger” that finally kept her quiet.
Ask Your Dender for Allen's Foot Easey a powder to shake into your shoes it rests the feet Cures Swollen Sore Hot Callous Aching Sweating feet and In growing Nails Corns Bunions Allen's Foot Ease makes new or tight shoes easy Sold by all druggists and shoe stores 2c Sample mailed Free Address Allen Olmsted Le Roy N Y
A Pittsburgh family left a house after moving out, and their cat returns nightly at ten, checks the front door then cellar windows, climbs the back fence, and roams until midnight. The disconsolate feline, near starved, is fed by neighbors who recall it from better days.
Oscar Swanson cared for his mother suffering kidney and urinary troubles and female weakness. He finally bought her Dodd's Kidney Pills, and within days she was completely cured, bringing him the reward of her restored health.
A Kansas paper notes a word error in a last week report claiming our new cemetery would prove a success. The editor admits the line should have read cemetery but a stray creamery word caused the humorous miscue.
An advertisement extols Red Crags Salt Blue as a laundry aid that makes clothes clean and sweet smelling like new. Marketed for home use, it is promoted as an all purpose cleaner available at grocers.
In Muncie Indiana Jenny Worfel faced trial for causing a disturbance on a trolley car. The jury became locked up to deliberate and within an hour a tumult erupted with shouts blasphemy and fighting leaving several jurors with black eyes and bloody noses signaling a heated, fist driven disagreement.
An elderly man humorously recounts a newspaper story about a man who died after beer in a chat with a boozy beggar. The exchange riffs on whether the death was worse, ending with a pun about Grinkity.
A boiler on the West side explodes, killing about fifty. The blast caps years of wear and neglect that prepared for the disaster, illustrating the need for self examination and faith. The Christian Advocate urges readers to test their beliefs in light of the tragedy.
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