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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1923
Page
5
Community notices cover health improvements and illnesses, local visits, and moves. Patients Mrs Silas Miller and Mrs Alma Dolan are noted as improving and ill respectively, while George Campbell moves to the former Presbyterian manse. Community members visit Stromsburg Lincoln Hazard and Central City.
Surety Mortgage and Trust Co announces first mortgages secured by Polk and Butler county farms for sale. Payments include interest and principal with no charge. Notes quoted in amounts 3000 3200 5000 6000 7000 9000 and 2000. David City Nebraska. 23-1
The first emblem observed was a copper finger ring worn by supporters of John Quincy Adams during his 1824 presidential bid. The ring bore the inscription John Quincy Adams, 1824.
A 940 acre Polk county farm offers two sets of improvements including a six room house with bath and basement, barn, hog house, and shingle roofs. 140 acres under plow with alfalfa, 50 acres wild hay, 50 acres suitable for farming. Abundant water at 8 to 10 feet. Yields: 50-60 bushels corn per acre, 5-6 tons alfalfa per acre, 1.4-1.5 tons wild hay per acre. Pasture supports one cow per acre seven months.
Frisco to Southern Seas voyage of thrills and rescues with comedy and news as Goldwyn presents The Concert. Promises lively stage action and patriotic services in February 2021 with a noted cast and sharp dialogue.
Daily weather and market notes list weekdays and local social visits. Merle Dawes visits home folks from Grand Island while several residents travel for business or family reasons to Stromsburg Lincoln Central City and Omaha.
Call or visit W. O. Johnson Co for spring fashion arrivals and price deals. New ladies coats and misses wear, spring men’s caps from 1.00 to 1.65, men’s trousers at 3.00, shirts 0.95, corduroy caps 0.73, boys overcoats half price, winter overcoats 23 and 40 at 7.50, work shoes 2.56, dress shoes 3.25, Walk Over patterns 5.50. Sugar prices rise. bring your want list for buying help.
Miss Melba Lotts of Chicago assists Miss Ida Hanson as trimmer for the Spring season. Mrs A A Gray and daughter Edith Gray visited Lincoln friends and returned home. R F Maricle and family went to Boone to stay with his parents. he teaches science at the high school. Chas Orson, aiding Mrs Lind, traveled to Lincoln. Frank Meyers returned from York Hospital after appendectomy. Miss Eulalie Heinemeyer visited from David City with grandparents Mr and Mrs A Mustard. Ida Hanson came home from Chicago after two weeks shopping in millinery. J F Jackson went to Hastings for a few days to finish work before moving there.
Public auction details place 7 miles south and 2 west of Osceola on Saturday Feb 17. Items include 17 horses Holstein cattle sheep white hops and machinery. Complete bills available in Osceola. Leonard Fusay owner Hoover Tucker auctioneer.
The Rock Island Railroad marks its seventieth anniversary with a memorial on the remaining pier of the first Mississippi bridge, a project once opposed by Jefferson Davis as secretary of war and defended by Abraham Lincoln as railroad counsel. Lincoln’s case helped shape navigation and commerce rulings, with later memorials and a Joliet ceremony honoring the line’s engineer Samuel Reed.
A historical ad warns buyers not to confuse ACME MINERALS with imitators and urges purchase only ACME MINERALS made in Wheaton Illinois from dealers listed in the notice. The ad notes a carload order for ACME MINERALS and ACME PIG MEAL with freight savings and lists authorized agents Farmers Union Co op and fieldman locations in Osceola and York Nebraska.
Mrs. Dr. B W Boyd was taken to York hospital yesterday for an operation today. Mrs. Wm Ehlers arrived from Strausburg Colo to visit her mother Mrs J J Linter and Osceola friends. Walker announces sale night February 22 at Osceola Sale Barn by Frank Walker.
Judge Ball is able to be up and around at home while Mrs Ball, who suffered a grippe attack yesterday, is confined to her bed.
Local report notes farmers advocate government aid to farm without purebred livestock. The Wal kers sale at Low State Oceola Sale Barn is scheduled for February 22.
Frank Walker holds a bred sow sale at Osceola Sale Barn in Nebraska to boost herd profitability. Buyers from the region attend to select sows for breeding programs with Durees planned as main lines.
Carl Schotz reports his workforce has completed a second ice crop this season. Several farmers haul ice to their homes and Schotz and Hae der have nearly tilled their re houses. The crop thickness ranges from six to twelve inches.
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