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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1933
Page
2
The joint committee on internal revenue taxation released its full report showing Nebraska duplicates eight federal taxes in oleomargarine and butter taxes. Per capita tax is 60.76 including all taxes. federal burden is 3.47, state and local 57.29.
State and federal statistician A J Anderson says Nebraska hog sales in 1932 totaled 44,599,000 dollars, less than a third of 1929, with about 100,000 more hogs marketed and Nebraska as the second largest hog state. He notes hogs account for over 27 percent of total farm income but farmers face higher taxes and debt while prices remain low.
The 1932 statewide 4-H program in Nebraska enrolled over 15 000 boys and girls across 17 552 projects. Seventy seven percent completed their projects and final reports while 89 percent of enrollees resided in 51 counties with active extension agents. Lancaster led counties with 910 participants, Scottsbluff 635, and Otoe 539. Colfax recorded the highest completion rate.
Nebraska farmers grew 101000 hundred pound bags of beans last year ranking eighth in production. North Platte valley saw promise leading Chester Brown to open a second bean plant in Gering after already owning a Morrill facility. Irrigated areas are noted as well suited for bean cultivation.
Henry Tonjes Jr. of Wisner received a patent for a tractor wheel scraper to remove earth that collects between cleats on wheel rims. Perry Reed, new Nebraska state fair secretary, aims for a 1933 exposition and plans economizing before seeking state appropriations and legislative approval.
The state railway commission said the Interstate Commerce Commission approved potato freight rate reductions for Nebraska shippers. The Nebraska commission noted savings on this year’s crop movements now upheld total nearly $10,000.
One thousand hunters expected for a wolf hunt sponsored by the American Legion post north of Meadow Grove. Pelts will be sold to fund welfare work. A recent local hunt drew over five hundred spectators and yielded $6 from coyote skins for poor relief.
The poem contrasts worrying with actual loss. Those who fear misfortune often suffer more than those who face real events. It argues that worrying precedes trouble and that anxious people dread possibilities that may never occur.
W. A. Peterson sold 11 grade dairy cows at his Oakland area farm for an average of 75 dollars. Dairymen note the price is well above state averages in recent months. Four two year old heifers were included and the top cow topped the hundred dollar mark.
Reports reaching Greeley say wild animals north of the area are dying from thirst as northern territory endures its driest period in over twenty years. No snow falls, water holes and streams have dried up, and carcasses of coyotes badgers and skunks have been found.
The First National Bank at Madison, a long standing local financial institution, shuts its doors and places operations under federal bank examiners C. W. Lyon and P. T. Henninger. Directors cite two years of ongoing deposit withdrawals and poor collections as reasons for the voluntary action.
Scrip totaling 100 dollars is issued in Spalding by the Spalding Lions club. On Saturdays it is paid to farmers for produce with one dollar buys five dozen eggs or two heavy hens or three light hens. Each dollar spent requires a two cent stamp attached. After 50 stamps are attached the club will redeem the scrip at face value.
Chairman Stewart of the state senate Institutions Committee reports a reduced inmate population across Geneva York Grand Island and Milford facilities and at the Kearney boys' industrial school. Only Hastings insane hospital is overcrowded. Kearney tuberculous hospital is at capacity with 35 to 40 on waiting list. Eight institutions visited are well administered. Grand Island soldiers home living out system should be abolished or curtailed.
The agricultural economics bureau report shows forced sales in Nebraska up more than 50 percent in the last year. About 34 of every thousand farms were sold via mortgage or bankruptcy actions, with tax sales adding 4.6 per thousand. Nationwide 41.7 per thousand farms saw similar rates in 1932.
J P Helleberg of Kearney is hired to design and supervise a new two story fireproof wing for Wauneta school damaged in the holidays. The addition, 76 by 57.8 feet with basement, will house 10 classrooms and a superintendent’s office, with grade rooms on the first floor and high school on the second. Estimated cost, exclusive of equipment, is about 35000 dollars.
Dates are praised as an American grown product surpassing imported Arabian dates. The article describes widespread uses from desserts to salads, offers a date pie recipe, and suggests fillings like peanut butter, fondant, and almonds. Produced by Western Newspaper Union in 1933.
The column features Nina Wilcox Putnam’s piece titled Kitty McKay from 1932. It carries the Bell Syndicate and WNU Service tag, reflecting a humorous or social note about fashion and moths amid a light, syndicated column style.
Old Mother West Wind leads the breezes to aid Striped Chipmunk in gathering brown nuts for his winter store. Happy Jack and Chatterer quarrel while the breezes shake branches, and the chipmunk joyfully retrieves nuts from fallen leaves. The tale ends with a lesson on the joy of work.
A playful column notes principal experts in Sweden are hired girls while students cite jokes in exams. The item also riffs on Saint Helena as Joan of Arc’s summer home and offers quirky definitions like epidermis as evolution’s worker and anatomy as study of heavenly bodies.
An ancient Roman scene recalls Caesar’s assassination with his last words to Brutus and a gasp at betrayal. The passage highlights the shock of treachery as Brutus stands among the traitors, underscoring the theme of loyalty shattered by political ambition.
World heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey wears the old belt of past champions including Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons and Jeffries before leaving New York for a Bermuda holiday. He posed for photographers in the moment.
A 1932 Bell Syndicate column quotes Lena saying discomfort comes from needing to be as slim as a nineteen thirty two bank roll. The remark highlights fashion and body image humor in early 1930s humor features.
The method suggests dipping brooms in boiling suds for a minute or two weekly to make them tougher and more pliable for longer use.
Washington reports the Roosevelt administration will open debt negotiations after March 4 with six nations that paid December installments while France Belgium Poland Hungary Estonia remain excluded. Britain signals potential drastic revision but seeks finality with no German reparations resumption.
Seattle report says John Bowe, 27, former Chicago law clerk, fell nine stories from an apartment building and buried himself two feet deep in earth after tearing through a plank walk. He told police he attempted suicide and was treated with only minor injuries at the emergency hospital.
The Supreme Court stated the 1924 treaty with Great Britain bars Coast Guardsmen from boarding searching or seizing British or Canadian vessels suspected of liquor smuggling within one hour’s sailing distance of U S shores. The treaty supersedes conflicting 1980 tariff provisions per the court opinion.
Washington reports Congress may drop any new plan to curb alcohol use in Africa. The State department Supply bill, as reported to the House, removes the $55 share under a 1929 treaty aimed at preventing African natives from consuming distilled liquor.
Elisabeth Marbury theatrical producer and first Democratic national committeewoman from New York died suddenly at her Sutton Place home. Death attributed to acute dilation of the heart.
Unofficial reports claim more than 500 Bolivian soldiers were killed and 600 wounded in fighting at Nanawa in the disputed Chaco region near Asuncion Paraguay.
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