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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1883
Page
4
Poetic lines extol infancy as a fountain tended by mothers guiding the child from early life. The verse asserts that mothers shape fate by rocking the cradle and thus rocking the world. It praises maternal mission and the divine breath of God guiding young hearts.
Mrs. Prewett and her family share a morning scene in a simple room. Anastasia speaks of love and happiness while recalling a vanished life with her late husband, a violinist, as the grandmother and parents clash over prudence and romance. Felix Gray.
An excerpt discusses Disraeli’s restrained eating to keep health and appetite for public life, and his evolving views on wine. It recalls hard drinking norms of youth, a remark by Lord Melbourne about drinking and talking, and Disraeli’s attempts to study convivial behavior. It notes his limited wine palate, avoidance of gin, and a quip about brandy viewed as an enemy.
American consul Joseph F. Potter reports on 32 marriages between American women and German nobles ending in divorce or abandonment. He cites brutal treatment and servile duties, including a Western railroad magnate daughter forced to supervise boot cleaning by her husband a military officer and count. The wife refused, triggering further abuse attempts.
Fragmentary passage describes a man attempting to compel payment of money as compensation for his wounded sensibility after a sudden departure by a woman. It notes she had no property in the province to seize and did not stay to incur further loss.
In a lavish description a traveler visits Nourmahal’s palace. He watches veiled attendants, dimly lit rooms, and music from eight musicians as she reclines in silk and jewels. The scene blends reverent fascination with exotic portraiture and fleeting social critique.
Daniel Gray reports his wife endured severe rheumatic pain that kept her from sleeping until the German remedy St Jacobs Oil gave instant relief. Two hours later the pain vanished. A telegram from England notes Dr Charles Waldstein, young American archaeologist at Cambridge University, now in charge of Fitzwilliam Museum. He recently claims a major discovery in Hindu Art featured in The Century Magazine December.
A story from Washington features Senator Garland unknowingly eating a soap filled caramel meant as a joke by pranksters at his hotel. The gag failed to provoke a reaction and left the culprit fleeing to the cloak room to claim safety. Butler dismisses the risk noting Garland’s purported Arkansas stomach.
The Pall Mall Gazette lists Mayne Reid novels and print runs. Titles include The Desert Home 8748 copies and The Boy Hunters 8455, The Young Voyageurs 6954, The Forest Exiles 8315, The Bush Boy 6710, The Young Yagers 5796, The Boy Tar 6878, The Plant Hunters 5000, Ran Away to Sea 6000, Bruin or The Great Bear Hunt 9000, Odd People 8000, Gasper the Guacho 8000, War Trail 14500, The Quadron 11400, Headless Horseman 4000, The Rifle Rangers 3000, The White Chief 3000, plus 20 more titles at 2000 each.
A wealthy but unsophisticated Indiana farmer and his family toured Chicago to shop. Near Mandel’s store elevators fascinated the group as the daughter asked about the moving cars. The father declared it a telephone, the first he had ever seen.
An 19th century column discusses eerie sun veiling and color shifts, attributing them to astronomical influences and predicting widespread calamities. It cites Professor Grimmer, planetary passages, and potential epidemics while advocating Warner's Safe Cure as a protective tonic amid feared upheavals.
A brief lament from the Commercial Advertiser denounces compulsory shaving as a harsh regulation in the British sutler service. The piece portrays soldiers subjected to shaving and being skinned as a painful, unjust practice reflecting broader wartime pain and discipline.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe denies a report of a new story and states she has no present intention to write. Miss Rothschild reportedly gave her young man a $1,000,000 check upon marriage. Georgia editors advocate harsher punishment for criminals. Advertisements promote Allen's Long Balsam for croup and Brown's Bronchial Troches for colds.
An advertisement extols Henrys Carbolic Salve as the best remedy for cuts, sores, ulcers, eruptions, freckles and pimples and warns against counterfeits. A personal testimony from Mrs George Judson of Hartford cites rapid relief from eye inflammation after using Ely s Cream Balm. The piece ends with promotional snippets and a rustic quip about dressing usage and a joke about a Lancashire man selling his wife.
Promotional snippet extols Grand Union Hotel as cheaper first class lodging in the city with 92.00 per day rates via street cars or buses to the Metropolitan Hotel. Contains scattered product pitches and a quip about a stepfather door-mat joke amid varied advertisements.
Old time Omaha market items list Wheat Corn Oats Flour and prices for various goods plus advertisements for Liver Pills harness oil and other patent medicines. Mentions YARWELL HAZARD CO New York and several consumer products and remedies with generic warnings and promotions.
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