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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1915
Page
2
Reports from Europe and the United States cover wage demands in England, Austrian and Italian wartime measures, indemnity plans, and neutral trade proposals. U S President Wilson weighs an extra session while Congress debates the ship bill and security legislation amid global conflict.
A 546 yard bridge road in northern France was constructed by 600 German soldiers within five days, highlighting rapid wartime engineering efforts and troop labor.
The piece notes that glass making faced scarcity from Belgian shutoffs and recalls a French law under Louis IX restricting glass works to nobles. It explains noble-born workers once ran or operated glass houses, and that English glassmaking origins trace to France with early workers calling themselves gentlemen glass blowers.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick argues in the Atlantic that books enlarge a reader's horizon and offer escape from daily trouble. Literature lets one mingle with the good and great, hear the wise and the prophet, and witness human struggles and triumphs across spheres of Paradise.
Under Commander John K. Robinson at Newport a test showed torpedo nets may no longer defend against torpedoes. A torpedo fired from the Morris at 18 knots pierced the steel net, hit the target, and exploded.
A rural county shows a dilapidated schoolhouse adjacent to a newly built jail with sanitary drinking fountains showers clean floors and good ventilation. The text questions whether district residents might prefer the jail to the old schoolhouse given the contrast.
Wartime notes highlight how cheerfulness, optimism and daily morale sustain troops under fire. The British War Office lists promotions rewarding such qualities as essential to gallantry, stating a single cheerful man can lift many around him and help brigades hold together amid hardship.
Publication of state department texts shows both nations warned to stop menacing ships and lives in the sea zones of war. Germany faced consequences if naval actions endangered Americans, with the United States promising necessary steps to protect lives and property.
House Democrats led by Representative Kitchin of North Carolina unveil a plan to pass the administration ship purchase bill as a temporary emergency measure. The move aims to break a Senate deadlock and forestall a possible extra session as opponents and supporters spar over the measure while the Senate adjourns.
London reports the house of commons passed the army estimates for 3,000,000 men without division and approved a token vote for pay of officers and soldiers. Harold Tennant stated a mobile force under General Hamistorm could be deployed if England faced a raid.
Petrograd dispatch to Havas News confirms German evacuation of Lodz with stores offices and commissariat moving to Kalisz. Refugee from Czestochowa reports renewed German fortification work after a six week pause.
Detective Tom Ring of the Omaha police force was shot to death by two suspects at a rooming house on 401 North Fifteenth street shortly after noon Wednesday. Ring, peering through a transom, was fatally wounded by two bullets, one in the face and another that damaged his hand and heart.
Lincoln delegates representing twenty cities and towns gather for the sixth annual League of Nebraska Municipalities session. They convene early and are loaded for bills in the legislature they deem vital to home rule in Nebraska.
Omaha and Chicago detectives came to catch Rev. Louis R. Patmont charged with setting fire to an over insured Newark church and accused of faking two sensational kidnappings. They gave up the search and returned while Patmont, here to arrange a temperance lecture, left just in time to elude officers. the chase continues elsewhere.
Representatives G L Shumway of Scottsbluff and attorney G H Craft met with the director of reclamation service in Washington to urge government assumption of control over the 64000 acre water project spanning Scotts Bluff and Morrill counties. No decision was reached.
Washington report notes weary senators in their seats at dawn after a prolonged all night session over the administration ship purchase bill. Republicans pressed to delay a vote while Democrats defend the measure amid a tense political clash.
Nebraska brief highlights include Box Butte county events, University plans to manufacture artificial ice, Beatrice new bus service, Seward high school building proposal, Fremont telephone damage from storm, Palmyra waterworks completion, and Hastings elevator reconstruction. Also noted are public notices on votes, baseball decisions, church revivals, and local accidents, with multiple small-town updates across the state.
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