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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1879
Page
3
The 2,000 guineas at Newmarket's first spring meeting in 1880 will feature sizable American entries. Besides Mr Lorillard's seven names such as Lrogabis Paw Paw Santee Merrimac Wyarndotte Passzic and Dakota, J R Keene has four entries and Mr Sanford has two. A baker's dozen potential American starters is expected.
A 12 year old boy in McCracken County Kentucky struck the man his mother was marrying with a fire shovel during a spur of mother’s second wedding. The ceremony paused as the mother administered a reprimand and took the implement away.
Frost of New York has coordinated a rapid postal card tour spanning New York and Marseille to Alexandria Suez Aden Bombay Calcutta Singapore Hong Kong and San Francisco before returning to New York. The stunt follows a prior successful trial that prompted many imitators.
A bill in the House by Mr Sapp of Iowa proposes a nine member Commission from each U S circuit to set maximum railroad rates and penalize excess charges. It allows appeals to U S courts and requires railroads to disclose books. A Railroad Bureau in Washington would collect statistics.
Fugitives from the Nevada State prison sheltered in Mono county forests near an unnamed lake now Victim lake. Snow weighed on trees as convicts subsisted on rose buds and fruit while sheriff deputies tracked them to their hideout. Several were killed before remaining escapees were captured and taken to Mammoth City.
After hearing a knock Owens found a baby on his hotel mat with a note from an unknown admirer offering the infant for adoption. He debated briefly and then, with help from friends, announced the adoption of the child as John E. Owens, Jr.
German press reports that Russian forces in Poland and Lithuania have risen in the past months to about 500000 men. Roughly half are stationed in the Kingdom of Poland, extending flanks in the region.
The report outlines the division of territories East Prussia West Prussia Silesia and Posen with Riga and Kiev receiving portions. It cites Molva the leading Russian financial paper estimating the last eastern campaign cost the Czar 1 500 010 000 rubles and 200 000 lives nearly double prior estimates.
The corps of skaters, a Norwegian army specialty, has been reorganized into five companies of 110 men each, with 270 akatera from the landwehr as reserves. They march on ice or snow with cavalry speed, using six inch by nine to ten inch skates and zigzag up slopes, exemplified by a 120 mile delivery in eighteen and a half hours from Roerase to Drontheim.
A Buffalo lad Frederick Meyers developed hydrophobia about two years after a dog bite in the front yard. He exhibited doglike behavior including crawling, scratching, barking, and frothing at the mouth. Despite medical effort his condition worsened. his eyes darkened and he snarls at strangers as doctors abandon hope of recovery.
A court case from Central Court details a man killed by a blow after a gate dispute at Wandsworth mills. The deceased, a gate-keeper, died from hemorrhage after jaw damage and a fractured bone. The jury found the defendant guilty but was released to await judgment.
Mr Hutchinson of Canterbury rode from Canterbury to London covering fifty five and a half miles in two hours twenty five minutes fifty one seconds using his horses and those of friends plus surplus from the Wellington coach. He made eleven stages five to six and a half miles each and returned by coach to Canterbury in the afternoon. Citizens honored him by making him free of the city.
A short verse laments a kitten’s death in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The poem imagines the pet’s brief life ending in dust and muses on potential maturity and a cat’s afterlife in a light playful tone. The piece names the place and a playful signature Glony McWunx.
A collage of vignettes from a 19th century children’s page includes a balloon adventure near Centralia with Nettie and Willie, a science verse about the solar system, a parrot saved by prayer, a New Hampshire dog named Jake, a crow thief tale, and a dramatic nitroglycerine explosion anecdote where workers fear a fiery blast and improvise a quick rescue.
A fragment shows a speaker mocking prisoners, scolding “You miserable fools” for swearing as a chicken cage appears nearby, suggesting a colorful, chaotic scene in a crowded setting.
A wealthy New York family orders an elaborate casket for their dead dog. An undertaker offers a rich cloth covered coffin with velvet trims and solid silver handles. The dog, cared for twenty years, lay in satin lined interior before burial in the family vault amid six carriagefuls of mourners.
A Kentucky man kept his first child’s gender secret for two years to ensure a boy would carry a prominent local man’s name. He deceived the county official into believing the child was a boy and never corrected the lie, yet the man now praises that a boy bears his name and his supposed greatness.
After the war Georgia passed a ten year tax exemption for new factories to spur growth. Now several established factory owners have joined to challenge the exemption in court. Governor Smith of Wisconsin was born in Scotland.
From the New Fort Tribune a look at next year’s campaign. The piece argues the Republican platform centers on justice for all, honest payments, and defending the public credit. It forecasts party stances against Greenbacks and inflationary Democrats, and urges loyalty to Union and constitutional rights while opposing imperialism and a third term.
The text champions Democratic dominance while denouncing universal suffrage and school reform. It urges banishing black jurors, erasing wartime policy, and preserving state sovereignty over federal power, paired with calls to glorify Jefferson and Davis and oppose Radical Republicans. It references race and civil rights in a partisan frame.
A summary list of scattered notes describes large timber tracts in Norway, coal mine under Scranton, a Japanese geographic society in Veddot, foreign born residents in San Francisco, and various curiosities from around 1900, including a Norfolk eel, Texas land purchases, and a Nebraska railroad rush near Lincoln.
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