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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1933
Page
8
Louis Maier & Son offers repair and rebuilding services for farm and workshop machinery. Skilled welders and lathe workers provide complete repairs from small fixes to full machine rebuilding with courteous service and competitive prices.
Carter's Shoe Co features an extensive stock for men women and children with all sizes and popular styles. Local sales staff provide complete service in a convenient store layout with ample seating and prompt window-to-floor assistance. A pair of shoes makes a fine Christmas gift and the shop aims to make shopping pleasant and memorable.
The Grey Taxi Company is described as a regular dependable taxi service essential to the community. The text praises its comprehensive service, safety, and role in city and county progress, noting owner Mr Galliy operates a garage and welcomes community business.
The W M Smith Dairy in Columbus Nebraska is highlighted as a leading local industry. The article notes its sanitary operations, healthy cow supply, and range of dairy products. Manager W M Smith runs the plant, which is praised as prosperous and beneficial to the community.
Henry Alpers and Sons promote themselves as top economic value in the region with an artist eye for color. They offer full decoration consultation for homes apartments or hotels and guarantee wallpaper paints and varnishes. They claim harmony and long life in their work and urge immediate talks before price rises. Start the New Year right.
The K and M Meat Loaf operation in Columbus is praised for quality and progress. The article lauds its extensive plant with modern machinery, local development role, and nationwide distribution of Hash Ever Ready Dinner Corn Tomatoes and Mincemeat products. It notes a retail market half a mile south of Riverview Inn offering fresh meat at reasonable prices and urges public support for local products.
Carl Roelle, a trusted roofing contractor also known as The Celebrated Barrett Roofing, emphasizes a complete A to Z roofing service. The firm highlights skilled workers, large and small contracts, top materials, and up-to-date products, urging customers not to delay as prices rise.
Kelley Brothers Heating and Plumbing Co is praised as the most practical and competent in heating sanitary engineering. They adhere to latest master plumbing codes and national association rules, with a ready supply of materials and skilled workers. Prices are rising, and readers are urged to act on long-awaited plumbing needs.
The article explains that acute colds likely stem from infection, aided by surface chilling that constricts skin vessels and dilates mucous membranes. It notes blood redistribution increases mucous membrane flow, leading to irritation, inflammation, and germ colonization, with upper air passages most affected.
Receipts reached 5 000 head with yearlings selling to 5 5 85 and mixed cattle trade dull. Cattle prices ranged from 1 0 75 to 10 60 for steers and cows from 1 75 to 2 8 0, hogs 3 downward to 2 60 with sows at 2 60. Hog run 11 000 head marked by steady to 5 10c lower levels.
Opening week shows indifferent demand for fat lambs from local packers and ship buyers. Feeder lambs remain strong with prices around 5.85 to 6.00 per hundredweight. Recounts note steady prices for ace d sheep and ranges for native lambs from 5.75 to 6.25, with feeders quoted at 4.25 to 5.25.
Four princes of the blood royal, two archbishops, twenty dukes, twenty seven marquises, one hundred thirty two earls, seventy five viscounts, twenty four bishops, one hundred forty four barons, sixteen representative Scottish peers and eighteen representative Irish peers.
Granny recalls a past Christmas when her suitor brushed aside shy decor details under the mistletoe. She notes they did not marry the first love, but their children did, including the storyteller’s other grandfather.
A quirky piece discusses a Christmas tie with wife and husband appeal and shifts to public health advice on preventing colds. It notes how sneezed droplets travel through the air and warns against infection from close contact, emphasizing handkerchief use.
The piece profiles Rev. P. L. Fitzwater D. D. a key figure in preparing the International Sunday School Lesson, noting his Virginia origins, education at Bridgewater Moody Institute and Princeton, roles at Manchester College and Moody, and his interdenominational, scholarly approach influencing readers nationwide.
The article argues that Christmas was not originally on December 25. It notes dates in January, April and May in early Christian times, and says December 24 was settled in the fifth century to replace Saturnalia. It mentions Judean rainy season and shepherds by night as reasons December 25 would be unlikely. Tit-Bits Magazine is cited.
Christmas boxes took their name from the pottery boxes used by masters to collect largesse from customers at Christmas. Apprentices carried these earthen receptacles as they gathered gifts and resources during the holiday season.
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