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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1902
Page
5
A collage of opinions and notes surveys diverse topics from grave robbing and military puzzles to education reforms. The piece touches on parliamentary power in Catalonia, a queen of satire, and universities offering accelerated bachelor of arts degrees in three years.
The pension report for the year ending June 30 shows total disbursements of 187.5 million dollars and 3,436 pending claims. The pension list reached 242,755 entries, with claims awaiting processing and ongoing budget concerns noted by officials.
A discussion on ethical sales practices criticizes lunch subsidies and “treating” as harmful. It condemns substitutes as theft from a firm and stresses customers should demand honest goods. The dialogue highlights how deceptive comparisons mislead buyers and harm legitimate merchants.
A wife named Mrs. Jeffrey teaches by day and supports Robert Gordon Jeffrey as he studies at the university. She cooks, cleans, and endures hardship to fund his education, becoming his helper and inspiration. He advances three months ahead of his class, aiming high for the future.
In Kentshire England two ancient oaks guard a country house. Their hollow trunks shelter centuries of life while ivy cloaks their wounds. Owls drift at night as lovers, funerals, quarrels, and mercy unfold beneath their venerable limbs.
A Chicago medical college pupil known for joking answers tries a dramatic red description then proves his gag by producing a brick from a package. When asked the cholera origin he quips Asia but cites the abdomen, prompting the professor to correct him and the class to laugh at the joke’s misdirection.
The article notes literacy and schooling levels in Persia with missionary schools and a Teheran college for nobles, then shifts to a company formed to reopen Somondoco's historic emerald mines. The mines were first found in 1537 and operated until 1792 when the Spanish king shut them.
Berlin police ban selling cold drinks below a set temperature as they claim such beverages harm digestion. The piece contrasts a man’s early morning routine with neighbors’ pity for his wife and comments on how a boy spreads butter while a girl does not.
Soak a pint of beans overnight then simmer with two quarts water a half-pound salt pork a pound cracked beef bones one onion and a celery stalk chopped. Season with salt and pepper then boil four to five hours until liquid halves. Strain rub peas through colander return and stir in butter rubbed with flour. Serve after it boils once.
A historical note describes headaches linked to a condition titled Remay Eve-Strain with a reference to a Preimea Oculist and an individual seeking to fit a gaze correcting device. The fragmentary text emphasizes medical observations without exhaustive details.
The article argues eye strain is a major, often overlooked cause of chronic headaches. It notes sufferers are typically heavy eye users like students and readers. Correcting vision with properly fitted glasses by a skilled oculist offers the only durable relief, while poor fit worsens conditions.
Iowa Homestead presents shock tying devices using a rope and handle turns for neat bundles. It also shows two fodder hauling options a sled and a low wagon rack with a derrick. New England Farmer discusses artificial ice ponds shallow depths gravel bottoms and simple tools for small households.
American Cultivator recommends winter spraying of fruit trees before leaf burst. Apple trees should be sprayed with one pound copper sulfate in twenty five gallons water to curb scab and pests, followed by Bordeaux mix after blossoms fall. Peach trees receive three pounds copper sulfate to six or nine pounds lime in fifty gallons water, with lime whitewash as an optional winter spray to prevent early bud break.
Readable fragments describe storing late cabbage in shallow trenches with a two layer head-down packing method and straw for moisture. Also mentions planning a milk handling house focused on ventilation sunshine drainage and cold water supply with a south window to allow sun while avoiding direct heat.
A sketch from Jacob Harper in the Epítomist details a DIY cheese press using 2x4 uprights 4 or 5 feet long with a base, a 2 inch plank table, a cheese hoop, and a 5 to 6 foot strip resting in mortises. Eccentrics act as levers to pull strings that apply adjustable pressure, with elastic components maintain pressure as long as needed.
A historical note explains hog care using charcoal stored in a box inside a hoghouse. It suggests digging a ground pit to start a controlled fire, then covering with sheet iron to char the material in a day or two. A salt and copperas solution is used to saturate the charcoal before feeding hogs.
The Rural World essay compares the bee’s complex life to a human infant’s limited, impulsive behavior. It argues that human vanity over brain superiority stems from inflated self-importance rather than true cognitive differences.
Editor of Heaps Dairyman reports pigs weighing one hundred pounds fed skim milk alone gained enough value to offset skim milk cost. A second group fed skim milk with corn meal added ten to eighteen pounds of pork more per hundred pounds than the milk only diet. The note links pig growth to dairy byproduct feeding and cites agricultural land area comparisons for the United States.
The New York Sun reports a remote Eskimo tribe on Southampton Island Hudson Bay living essentially in the stone age. Rev A W Buckland describes their whale bone huts whale oil lamps and toboggan-like sledges while linking recent finds to Tyrell brothers and the Andree case. Buckland doubts Andree will be heard again.
A photograph shows a young lady on what appears to be a baby elephant, but the figure is a silhouette cut from boards used as an advertisement. The lap-robe hides the sign as the woman clings to the edge of the mock elephant along a Washington roadside.
Mrs Hall asks neighbor's six year old Robbie to fetch a spool of silk for 3 cents. He misunderstands the amount and questions 4 cents, revealing a humorous exchange about hearing and prices in a quaint town scene.
Experiments in France show aluminum as a potential substitute for paper. Cast sheets four-thousandths of an inch thick weigh less than paper, with prospects for thinner sheets using suitable machinery. The metal resists oxidation, is fire and water proof, and impervious to worm damage.
Comic quip about Klumsky's baby from the Philadelphia Press pokes fun at parental resemblance. The joke notes the infant opened its mouth and put its foot in it, a humorous image reflecting family humor.
A lighthearted quip notes the challenge of convincing a husband that his wife truly reads his mind. The author casts the dynamic as a humorous take on domestic misreads and communication.
Instructions describe a layered devil cake method mixing grated chocolate milk brown sugar butter eggs and vanilla, then folding in boiled mixture and flour with baking powder. Bake in layers and assemble with boiled frosting for a rich dessert.
Boil chickens until half cooked, fill with sautéed onions and celery, truss and boil until tender. Reduce the cooking liquid, then add half a pint of cream, season, thicken, and serve.
Wash seed and slice oranges and lemons. Simmer fruit with liquor until peel is tender. Add three pounds of sugar and boil until the mixture looks clear and gels when cooled in a saucer. If juice is under a quart and a pint, add water to reach that liquid amount.
Instructions for pastry dough: chop a half pound of cold butter into a coarse powder with one pound of flour, mix with iced water to form a paste, roll fold roll three times, chill two hours or more, then roll and shape into pies. Keep all ingredients ice cold for best results.
A simple cookie recipe from California uses one cupful of molasses one half cup of milk one egg one half cup of butter and one half cup of sugar with one cupful of chopped raisins and spices including ground cloves cinnamon and nutmeg a teaspoonful of soda mixed into flour and dropped on buttered tins then baked quickly.
Trim and flatten cod steaks then coat with oil mixed with lemon juice onion juice cayenne and salt. Let stand at least an hour, drain, dip in egg then crumbs and fry. Broil instead by draining oil and placing on a hot gridiron.
A simple candy recipe mixes sugar water vinegar and butter to boil until brittle in cold water. Lemon juice is added off heat, then the mixture is poured into a buttered pan and scored into squares for serving.
Roil milk sugar and grated chocolate until a drop in cold water hardens. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and heat until creamy and granulated. Pour into greased pan, then mark off into squares.
Stir one tablespoon barley flour into a small cup of cold water. Mix, then stir into two cups boiling water or hot milk. Add half a teaspoon salt, boil and stir constantly two minutes. Sweeten with pure sugar or milk of sugar.
This guide explains dropping eggs into boiling water with a long-handled spoon and not fully submerging them. Soft eggs take about three minutes, medium about three and a half, and hard from five to ten minutes depending on doneness.
Practical household hints cover lamp safety with paper, borax in rinsing water to iron handkerchiefs, making glass imitate ground glass with Ep som salts, knife cleaning with potato, chamois washing, leather care, enamel bath cleaning paste, boiled starch improvements, and preventing iron sticking by starch soap water mix.
A Chicago Palmer House steward recalls General Grant slipping to a kitchen door for corned beef and cabbage after a world tour. Grant chooses a rough board table and eats there, noting the meal would taste like the gods after months away. He reflects on earlier days in St Louis when locals called him Captain.
A trio of prospectors near Prescott Arizona extended their work to a third day without food. Fatigued and unable to see the trail at night they used phosphorus from matches rubbed on a black and tan hound to create a fire marker. The dog led them back to Prescott in time for breakfast.
Rin London quotes Dr. Redwood a leading English chemist arguing that using oil as fuel in London would eliminate fog by reducing unburned carbon. He notes factory chimneys emit smoke and urges compulsory adoption of oil burning by manufacturers in the metropolis. The piece also critiques an old habit of blaming wives for social fixes.
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