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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1942
Page
4
Osceola gains a higher school slot as its new auditorium opens amid praise for its spacious layout. The Columbia Opera Company performed Dorothy and The Mikado, while local residents report a thriving Beulah boom and increasing western ties with Spokane and Oklahoma prospects.
Ten years ago on February 4 1932 the Osceola community mourned Matt Sterup who died suddenly leaving a widow and five children. He had served as city councilman precinct assessor and former secretary of the Community Club. Mortgage activity for January shows farm and city mortgages filed and released along with numerous chattel mortgages. In Polk County basketball Osceola defeated Stromsburg 20 to 13 and 27 to 7 in second games. Postmaster Snider asked the county board to open rural routes out of Osceola as roads remain largely impassable after the first snow of New Year’s Eve. Gerald E Parker Osceola coach declined to accept the coa
Colchicine speeds up chromosome doubling in plants, notably tobacco and flowers, yielding faster growth and stronger traits. Research by Blakeslee and Burpee notes tetraploid varieties like a fourfold chromosome marigold, with broader petals and sturdier blooms, while Havas shows similar animal effects.
The Masai in eastern Africa near the equator live as herdsmen and soldiers aged 16 to 20. They carry homes on the march, wear brass or copper wire jewelry, and decorate with red or white clay while often using ox-hide shields and spears in combat.
Early records recount the first New York coffee house serving coffee with cinnamon and honey in 1668. By 1672 families in New York brewed spiced coffee at home and the cinnamon recipe persisted. The 1941 revival calls the drink Coffee Imperial with cinnamon, hot coffee, whipped cream, and a cinnamon dusting.
Arizona produced 2 500 000 in asbestos last year with a major share from Gila county according to Dr T C Chapman dean of the university of Arizona College of Mines He notes asbestos is used in defense and that nine of 14 critical materials are minerals for which the government has set aside 400 000 000 for purchases He predicts manganese prices rising to 65 70 cents per unit over five years to boost Arizona production which totaled 1600 tons last year.
A New York tea room fortune teller prophesied Emma Gross would sign papers in a large building. That night the policewoman visited Brooklyn Queens night court and signed papers placing the fortune teller under arrest for illegal practice.
The Christian Science Monitor examines Jesus promise of abundant life, arguing true abundance lies in spiritual understanding of Life as God. It urges readers to seek God’s kingdom and righteousness, express divine qualities, and not dwell on material possessions.
An article compares human weight across planets noting a 140 pound man would weigh 53 pounds on Mars and 23 pounds on the Moon. It lists weights for Venus Mercury Neptune Aratus and Earth. The Methodist Church announces Sunday services February 8 at 10 11 and 2 00 PM plus women society and choir events in the church.
An overview explains typhus origin and transmission by body lice during war and famine. It notes incubation of nine to twenty days, abrupt high fever, conjunctival inflammation, a rash, and rising mortality depending on care, with about half surviving under reasonably good care and higher death rates with poor care.
Legal notices in Polk County Nebraska outline an order to sell real estate to pay debts for Jessie M. Egelhoff and a foreclosure action by Roy L. Ericson. The first item grants license to sell SE quarter of NE quarter Section 29 Township 13 Range 1 West and sets February 28 1942 as a court date. The second item details a foreclosure against Raymond E. Myrberg et al involving the West half of the NW quarter of Section 12 Township 13 North Range 3 West, with a $6795.37 claim at 8 percent interest and a sale to satisfy the mortgage.
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