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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1913
Page
2
The ad touts Pape's Diapepsin as a fast fix for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims five minute relief, improved stomach function, and freedom from gas belching and sourness, urging readers to buy a fifty cent case.
Mark Twain and his family sail to Europe where he continues writing on board. A storm forces him to retreat to the cabin and explain his absence to his young daughter. She relays his joke that he is only going to write an anecdote, prompting a passenger to ask where he has gone.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Dandeline as a remedy for dandruff and hair loss. It claims a neglected scalp causes itching and falling hair, promising immediate improvement and new hair growth after a few weeks with a 25 cent bottle.
A colored Baptist exhorter invites all to the altar for sins washed away but one man reveals he already had his sins washed at another church. The improvised joke ends with the quip that he is merely dry cleaned, not washed. Lippincott's Magazine.
An advertisement touts a ten cent box of a sherbet-like digestives product claiming to cure dizzy headaches, biliousness, and foul breath by cleansing the bowels, reducing gas, and stimulating the liver to expel waste. It cites users and a network of pharmacies and distributors.
Washington reaction covers three currency bills to be laid before the senate by the divided banking and currency committee. Retail food prices rise August 15, the highest in twenty three years per the bureau of labor statistics. The Glass Owen bill is to be presented as originally endorsed by the administration and passed by the house. The senate gift to Miss Jessie Wilson is a fifteen piece silver service led by a five piece tea set. President Wilson’s annual message nears completion with delivery timing to depend on joint session scheduling. Western postmasters urged to forward empty sacks to ease eastern shortages. A peace centenary commission proposed to discuss Ghent treaty celebrations with Britain and Canada. The post office will tighten eyes to the eight hour day during Christmas rush, forcing long hours.
A Lee county farmer argues crows spread hog cholera as Senator Kenyon pushes a 1 million dollar bill to eradicate the disease. The miscellany reports mine disaster numbers, egg boycott, mint theft, suicides, football casualties, dry California drive, postal parcel urging, tariff praise, convict labor protest, rising food prices, and a Russian treaty note after a Wilson meeting.
Reports include a New York court case over Titanic losses to heirs seeking 17 million dollars, Prince Katsura's body offered to science after cancer study, Huerta dissolving the Mexican congress, Villa marching against federal forces, and diverse U.S. state and national updates on weather, football, Rhodes scholarships, bank reserves, railroad rates, and labor federation actions.
Gage County farmers offer support to the government in the effort to combat hog cholera while a U S marriage at the White House highlights political events. The justice department and Congress press ahead with actions against cold storage dealers amid a flood of letters and telegrams to Attorney General McReynolds. Officials say dealer pleas will not halt prosecutions and that informed dealers may present their case in Washington.
President Wilson’s daughter Jessie Woodrow Wilson wed Francis Bowes Sayre in a ten minute White House ceremony attended by high officials, diplomats, and relatives. The president and Mrs. Wilson stood together in a moment of grave emotion as they marked the union of their first child.
A large Beatrice banquet and meeting heard Congressman Sloan Governor Morehead and others discuss a government hog cholera demonstration district in Johnson county and northern Gage county. Dr Cosford and the state livestock sanitary board will guide treatment and farmer education with promised local cooperation.
The Navy Department loaded the supply ship Culgoa with 285000 pounds of Argentine beef at 11.9 cents per pound, saving about half a cent below American packers' lowest estimate. It also saved 9528 on 120000 pounds of canned corned beef bought in Australia at 15.37 cents per pound versus 23.31 cents locally.
Juvenile and truant officers in Pittsburg have been asked by Jack Robbins of Chicago to locate the city’s “toughest” boy. The chosen youth would join the Last Chance Boys’ club and, with eleven others, go to a Reno ranch for an opportunity to become a good man.
The traveling exhibit of the German American alliance of Nebraska is on display at Peru normal and is proving very interesting and helpful.
The Iowa supreme court halted all saloons in Des Moines Ia forcing immediate closure. Within hours officers notified saloonkeepers and by 5 30 pm most of the ninety plus establishments had closed.
Omaha resident Arthur W. Bellamy pleaded guilty in federal court to using the mails to defraud and received a six month sentence in the North Platte county jail. He admitted sending Black Hand letters to Fred L. Temple of Lexington demanding $8000 in a tin box at a site west of Lexington with threats to kill Temple and his family if not paid. Authorities believe Bellamy, a country boy, acted alone.
Washington DC readers cheer Senator Norris of Nebraska who proposes a Senate bill to issue rebate checks to any entrant of a street car who cannot find a seat. Two checks would be legal tender for one fare. Norris notes from personal experience that straphangers deserve relief.
State House report notes steady gains in farm improvements with 2076 silos in Nebraska in April 1913, up from 1683 in 1912. Hand separators reached 47444 in 1913, vs 43006 in 1912 and 42782 in 1911, signaling rising investment in farm equipment.
The War Department will furnish all non-commissioned officers in the Nebraska National Guard with automatic revolvers used by the regular army. The adjutant general will draw and distribute the 239 eligible officers immediately.
Saunders County owes the state $10 835 for the state insane fund and pledges a county levy to meet the bill. Of thirty counties in arrears, most have either paid or promised to pay as soon as possible.
The state fire commission announces the arrest of C B Carpenter at Gothenburg after a lengthy probe. He is accused of setting fire to his home a year earlier and collecting insurance from two companies exceeding the home's value.
A telegram to Leslie C. Stevens a Nebraska university student announces his Rhode scholarship examination success in Lincoln but state university authorities have not yet received official confirmation. The message came from W G Crossland Rhode scholar from Wesleyan now at Oxford.
For the week of Organized Agriculture at Lincoln January 19 to 23 a clinic will test a cow with tuberculosis and display the infected organs after testing. Prominent dairy experts from several states will attend, announced by President R. W. McGinnis.
The Nebraska state insurance department will not move to bar the Independent Order of Foresters a Canadian concern from operating in Nebraska. Wisconsin has already barred the group and Illinois has pushed the matter so hard that Foresters will withdraw from the state without awaiting a license denial.
The McCabe Aviation company of Lexington becomes the first flying firm licensed by the states blue sky department under the railway commission. It may issue 1500 dollars in stock to fund a new airship project with potential for future offerings upon approval. Omaha National Guard members push to form a four company militia unit, following hall's plan and war department orders.
Governor Morehead addressed the Omaha Manufacturers Association on convict labor for highways. He urged better use of convicts than the current contract system and proposed creating paving brick on a large land tract for road work to remove convict labor from free labor competition.
The War Department informs Adjutant General Hall that the $18,000 issued equipment for the Fremont signal corps will not be deducted from Nebraska National Guard’s $38,000 annual federal allowance. Half of the equipment to be delivered December 1, with the rest two months later.
The state food commission reports sale of adulterated linseed oil largely stopped. Vigorous prosecutions and strict enforcement of state law persuaded nine companies to pay penalties for violations during the war or for distributing false product.
A penitentiary engine failure plunged the state house into darkness Friday afternoon, causing a temporary halt in activities. No injuries reported as crews worked to restore power and inspect the facility.
The code commission says state laws will fill about 2 000 pages when finished with a lengthy set of statutes. M R Gilmore, curator of the university museum, leaves for Oklahoma to study Pawnee and other Nebraska tribal groups to gather plant data and corn specimens prior to white settlement.
At a Nebraska Manufacturers association convention, delegates voted against exhibiting at the 1915 San Francisco exposition. The resolutions committee urged funding support, but the convention declined the recommendation while expressing hope for Nebraska backing and suitable representation. The meeting then endorsed a Nebraska exposition in 1917 to celebrate statehood's fiftieth anniversary.
Bertha Liebke accompanied by Mark Savidge traveled around Omaha returning loot taken from several stores. She recalled exact origins and appeared light hearted, offering no protest. Dr. Savidge plans a booklet detailing Liebke life, her confession, his view of her reintegration, and profiles of the Davises two weeks with her.
Columbus reports high school husker Art Kenney who harvested 136 bushels 60 pounds in under ten hours, 112 bushels 40 pounds in under eight hours, and 126 bushels 50 pounds on the third day. The three day average yields 125 percent per day with a nine hour daily time. Kenney turns 19 on November 27.
Thirty friends gathered at John Steinmetz's Endicott area farm while he lay ill in Omaha hospital. They husked his corn and gathered 480 bushels for the ailing farmer, one of the region's fortunate corn growers.
Charles Botel a 13 year old fourth grade student at Corrigan school hanged himself after fearing a whipping by his father for stealing $7. The body was found Tuesday night hanging from a tree limb near his home.
In a Plattsmouth area school yard five miles west, a boy, son of Henry Born, was struck during rough play and a stick pierced his eye. Doctors fear permanent sight loss as the stick penetrated the outer coat of the eye.
Grand Island reports the funeral of W H Harrison held at the residence with Rev A F Ernst of the Presbyterian church officiating. The choir sang Lead Kindly Light and Abide With Me. Masonic lodge I C O F and Elks attended. six Harrison brothers acted as pallbearers. numerous floral tributes and rites observed.
The third annual meeting of the State Automobile Association closed with officers elected: President Harry Lowrie Omaha. Vice President B. A. George Lincoln. Second Vice President T. F. Paterson North Platte. Secretary A. H. Overgard Fremont. Treasurer John Shreck Beatrice. Omaha chosen as next convention site.
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