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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1877
Page
3
Fragmentary notes describe sales notices homesteaders patent claims and local business updates. Mentions James Bell sale attendance six hundred people and various trades including tailoring. Some names appear with scattered references to community events and public square gatherings.
In boring near Dr Whaley, black earth was located fifty feet below the surface with richer soil than some surface layers in distant states. Rev J W Kager wed near Orton. Dellaney age seventy five weds Mrs Mary A Horton age forty five. James Bell recalls Platte bottom six years ago when few wagons passed. now roads crowded and a sale was the biggest in Nebraska. Judge Snider pursued Perket after cattle stolen and recovered them after discovering the theft. Perket traded cattle for a pony saddle bridle and ten dollars before heading toward Black Hills.
The jury returns a verdict of murder in the first degree after a preliminary examination yielded no new crucial testimony. The York Republican notes the prosecution failed to present a near case against Clough.
A letter notes Sgur’s interesting paper and welcomes a Nebraska visitor. It reports on local farmers, mentions fears about hoppers, and cites Mr Burr’s accounts of farmers leaving and returning sturdy. The writer agrees with emigration predictions from Illinois toward Nebraska.
The county suffers from fuel scarcity and relies on other states. A resident near Seward reports a coal seam reached at 116 feet, burning like Fort Scott coal, prompting calls to form a company and pursue deeper testing to unlock local wealth.
The report discusses prospects for coal mining and urges prosecution of borings as a benefit to all classes and property. Geologists doubt a deposit suitable for minting, citing uncertain surface indications. Andrews drilled seventy five feet on his farm and struck soap stone that cannot be penetrated with a common auger.
Perkey of Wauloo Independent argues every published article should assign responsibility to a writer or editor. He urges sign naming, condemns unsigned reflections as cowardly, and questions editors who allow impostors to dictate content. He warns unsigned pieces undermine public trust and degrade the paper’s respect.
John Wolmquist offers seventy five stock hogs Berkshire and Poland China breeds including sows and thirty shoats and 1000 bushels of corn at his residence in Stromsburg Nebraska on February 20 1877. Cash paid for sums to five dollars and eight months credit on larger amounts with approved security. If stormy the sale moves to the following Friday.
Geo W Post Judge 4th Judicial District fixes district court terms for 1877 in Hall Merrick Platte Colfax Dodge Saunders Howard Seward York Butler Polk Hamilton with dates from February to December and orders journalist publication for three consecutive weeks in a county newspaper.
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