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Newspaper

Osceola Record

Location

Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Dec 22, 1921

Page

6

Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Compound for cure

Mrs J H Meyer of Orange California describes severe health issues including tumors and ulcers and displacement. She attributes her recovery to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and notes she used it during the Change and can perform full work now.

Orange Cal Yagq Lydia E. Pinkham J. H. Meyer South Orange St California

Portrait Studio Delay Sparks Complaints

Mrs Newrich visits a studio seeking a journeyman portrait. The attendant asks her to wait while the master works on a study. She reacts that she wants an artist who has finished with his studies and leaves to seek elsewhere.

Crow’s Fortune: Owner Refuses Ten Thousand Dollars

A trained crow in this country reportedly refused a bid of ten thousand dollars from its owner and is now performing stage stunts. The claim highlights the bird’s value and unusual career path.

Painting the Rainbow, Alice I Want Jack to Call This a Regular Love Letter

A fragment from a psychological drama features two speakers, Virginia and Alice, debating the tone of a letter to Jack. Virginia insists on a simple postscript urging burning. the exchange hints at secrecy and emotional distance.

Alice Jack Virginia

Red Cross Ball Blue Ad Teaser for Laundry

Advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as the satisfying solution for snowy white laundry after a hard day of work.

Fragmented dialogue peeks from Birmingham ad parody

A garbled exchange mentions a beauty parlor, a hair restorer, and a divorce lawyer named Mr. Partem. The Birmingham Age Herald source shows nonsensical lines and stray quotes, suggesting an OCR artifact from a parody or satire piece with no clear event.

Kalso Partem Birmingham Jlerald

Woman Kidney Health Ad Promotes Swamp-Root Remedy

Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder trouble often without suspecting it. The ad claims kidney disease causes other organ issues and lists back pain headaches and nervousness as symptoms. It urges prompt treatment with Dr Kilmer Swamp Root and offers a sample by mail from Binghamton New York.

Dr. Kilmer & Co Binghamton, N. Y

Lived In Different Worlds in courtroom notes

Incompatibility leads to separation as Mark cites differing interests. Parks notes the gulf between golf talk and bridge chatter reflects their diverging worlds and causes the split.

Marks Parks

California Fig Syrup Ad Warns About Imitations

An old advertisement urges mothers to feed California Fig Syrup to children for gentle liver and bowel cleansing. It promises quick relief from constipation and biliousness, claiming the syrup makes a sick child well again within hours. It warns to ask for California by name to avoid imitation products.

California

Absent minded professor hosts Scots in Highland garb

A scatterbrained professor invites learned Scots to ruins and wears a kilt at a luncheon. Jane sees him and rushes upstairs, returning with a pair of trousers, revealing bare knees and prompting her blush and remark about forgotten garments.

Jane Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph

Value of New York City parks appraised at nearly half a billion

Public park lands owned by New York City are appraised at 489,989,000 with major valuations for Central Park 286,500,000 City Hall Park 31,198,000 Battery Park 16,527,500 Bryant Park 22,553,000 Riverside Park 15,152,000 Manhattan Square 11,275,000 Van Cortlandt Park 18,250,000 Bronx Park 8,611,900 Pelham Bay Park 5,775,000 Prospect Park Brooklyn 33,600,000.

New York New York City Central City Hall Park Battery Park Bryant Riverside Park Manhattan Square van Cortlandt Park Bronx Park Pelham Bay Park Prospect Park Brooklyn

Edith-Gladys and Harold End Engagement

Grace notes the couple has broken off and their engagement was denounced. The remark hints at sorrow and the bond formed in shared grief.

Edith Gladys Harold Grace

Opium Case on the Maggie Ends in Shipboard Plot

In a harbor tale on the Maggie, Adelbert P. Gibney opens a sealed zinc box to reveal two dead Chinamen and an argument over oriental goods. Captain Scraggs, McGuffey, and Gibney scheme to recover costs, while Scrags vows revenge as the crew contemplates a drink and a new plan.

Gib Gibney Scraggs McGuffey Mr. Gibney Captain Scraggs Captain Scruggs Mr. McGuffey Twig Scraggsy Adelbert P. Gibney Maggie Chinatown Bart

Oriental Goods

Captain Phineas Scraggs runs the steamer Maggie from Halfmoon Bay to San Francisco with a mutinous crew. After a fog wreck and a fake salvaging scheme, Gibney and McGuffey seize a derelict Chesapeake and tow it to San Francisco for a $1000 each, then return to salvage the Maggie and buy two boxes believed to hold smuggled oriental goods.

Phineas Scraggs Sanfrancisco Mess Bay Maggie Adelbert P. Gibney Secraggs Neils Halvorsen Bart McGuffey Gibney Captain Scraggs Halfmoon Bay San Francisco Mr. Gibney Hicks Flaherty Scruggs McGuffey Magelte

Loot on the Maggie as ginseng deal risks a wager

On the Maggie the crew opens crates bought in a shady deal. Gibney suspects the boxes may contain Oriental goods rather than ginseng and proposes they split profits, betting the contents and sharing any outcome. Scruggs and McGuffey agree to the bet as they pry open the lid.

Mr. Gibney Scruggs McGuffey Captain Scruggs Scraggs Captain Scraggs

Smugglers haggle over dead Chinese cargo in San Francisco

Captain Scraggs presses Gin Seng for five hundred dollars to release two dead Chinese men shipped as Oriental goods. Gibney and McGuffey profit by selling the corpses to Scraggs, then plan lunch while Scraggs grumbles at the double cross and awaits further moves.

Mr. Gibney McGuffey Captain Scrages Worthy Drumm Street Drumm California Cabie Chinatown Dupont Street No. 714 Chinese Six Companies Gin Seng Scruggs Scraggs Scrages United States Jackson Street Gibney Maggie Ah Ghow Hop Sing Tong Ng Chong Yip Hop Sing Gin Seng Company San Francisco Captain Scraggs Interstate Commerce Commission Charley Denmark Gib Tiie Christendom Fig Chinaman John Chinaman John Bart

Munition aid to Mexico framed as urgent task

A wartime statement emphasizes delivering munitions to Mexican allies. The note highlights rapid shipment and cooperation with Mexico as a strategic priority amid tensions and military support efforts.

Mind influenced by signs erodes city landmark memory

An old timer laments fading landmark memory as eye catching advertising signs flood streets. He recalls vivid corners from twenty years ago but now says minds no longer imprint buildings or vacant lots due to constant exposure to letters and store signs.

Rapidity of Nervous Impulse in Tall and Short Bodies

Royal Society discussion notes how nerve length affects impulse speed between brain and limbs. Short individuals feel a step sooner than tall ones, though the difference is small, leaving both with limited chance to escape.

Royal Society London

Panama Hats From Ecuador Demand Fine Craft

Most Panama hats are made in Ecuador from paja tequilla leaves. The process includes boiling bleach with lemon juice and hand weaving in humid hours. A worker crafts a hat in six to seven days, finer pieces take six weeks. Monte Cristi hats are famed for superiority.

Ecuador Monte Cristi

Lava Souvenirs From Kilauea Volcano Edge

Tourists visiting Hawaii’s Kilauea donate coins pocket knives and brooches into the lava stream near the crater edge. Guides retrieve the items after minutes as they cool and become encased in molten lava, forming prized reminders of the world’s largest volcano.

Kilauea Hawaii Islands

Bridge Cable Woven In Place On Brooklyn Bridge

The eighteen inch cable of the Brooklyn Bridge was woven in place. It would have been nearly impossible to hoist it to its present position once complete.

Brooklyn Bridge

Ingratitude Monstrous in Human Frailty

A literary note reflecting on Shakespearean lines about ingratitude and its moral force. The quote contrasts gratitude with the danger of turning the people into a monster through collective ingratitude.

Shakespeare

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