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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1902
Page
1
Visitors and neighbors mingle at Miss Anthony and Mrs Merrick gatherings. Young folks surprise David Timm, while Ruby Snider hosts friends with ice cream and cake. The Joint Debate on February 28 pits Bluffton Society against Sunny Side on woman suffrage.
City MILL of Osceola Nebraska advertises patriotic flour products for sale, emphasizing national pride in its merchandise.
A regular meeting of the Polk County Agricultural Association will be held at the Court House on Saturday March 1, 1902 at o'clock P.M. The committees appointed at the January meeting will submit their reports and plans for the 1902 fair will be finalized. All members are urged to attend. Respectfully, D. Stone, Secy.
Local items list sales for Dr Hart and Dr Shaw with trips to Omaha and St Joe. Advertisements promote Standard Food, Page fence and poultry, plus a new baby at the Crabill home. Daily papers available at the Post Office and local merchants offer goods and services.
Orry Milus at Osceola Neb advertises full warranty on all flour and buys live poultry at the highest market price. E Howland seeks a girl for general house work while paying spot cash for chickens, ducks, geese. Olive Erickson and mother were Lincoln-bound passengers. Frank West to Chicago for spring goods. Bring fowls to Osceola north side and see Wm Ingalls for sale dates.
A local notice page lists Cypress Tanks at C. G. Gylling's and flour prices at H. A. Scott's. It mentions feeding value for corn, horse and team offerings from J. W. Snip, and social news of Mrs. H. T. Arnold hosting Miss Glarys Baum. Other items include wheat value at 15 cents per bushel, Osceola mill sales, and local contractor services by VU. Lundstrom.
Orry Mills consigns flour for sale in Polk County with Ingalls the auctioneer arriving and booking sales in Shelby and at the Record Office. J W Query plans a Washington estate sale Mar 3 with stock and machinery. Public sales announced for Sam Ballenger cattle and Bull estate farm near Osceola. The Modern Woodmen banquet and program hailed as the best in years.
An Osceola Web advertisement from City Mill urges women to be careful with flour used for baking arousing concerns about contamination or outside flour handling. The brief copy emphasizes proper usage and safety in domestic baking.
Dr. Kelley of the Nebraska Star Dental will be in Beebe Hotel March 3 for two weeks. A masquerade dance is planned at the Old Beebe Hotel Friday evening March 7. Ross E. Mickey and Myr. will show samples at Oceano Hardware and Furniture Co from March 1 to 10. L. N. Suaw, in the south part of town, fell while dressing and broke two ribs but is not dangerously hurt. Mark Timm will start an addition to his house next Monday, weather permitting. O. M. Lundstrom handles the work. Rev. C. J. Dudley, once a county resident, has left the ministry and entered mining business.
San Francisco physician Dr J W Hamilton endorses Warners White Wipe of Tar Syrup as the best cough medicine and claims it has no equal for asthma after years of use.
Ordinances took effect last Friday and the Sunday closing act was followed last Sunday altering the town’s look. Dr. Hart renovates dental rooms into a pleasant suite. Ingalls returns from Oklahoma with strong recommendations as an auctioneer. For mild relief, Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are sold by G. T Ray & Co with samples free and guarantee.
A brief note urging support for flour fairness, promising City Mins of Osceola will handle remaining steps to give our flour the same chance as out-of-town brands.
Condition report notes tempering of wheat at City Mills in Osceola Nebraska has produced flour of superior quality. The statement emphasizes ongoing improvements and claims the current flour is better than ever.
M Bates of Platte precinct reports selling four hats weighing 20.70 pounds total and earning 27.95 after moving to alfalfa feeding. J B Jarmin of Davenport previews agricultural implements including a riding plow. Andrew Nelson sustains ribs from a horse incident near the Poor Farm. he will be off work weeks. A lodge of the Princes of the Orient formed at Shelby with 35 locals attending.
Mr and Mrs Nels Johnson of Madison Nebraska arrived at Oscools last week and stay to visit friends. A party was held Saturday evening in their honor at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Fox. Public sale of the Win Barck estate farm machinery and livestock will be held at Pulie Sale near Osceola on March 4 1902 beginning at 10 o'clock.
Crry Mirus of Osceola Nebraska announces flour sold at wholesale price in five sack lots direct from the mill. Pricing and delivery details available to buyers.
A North Star Michigan resident lauds Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the best for coughs colds and croup in her family. The note accompanies other notices about an excursion to Wheatland Wyn and farm investment opportunities with Geo Cremeen of Osceola Nebraska.
The Woman's Literary Club of Osceola has placed Nebraska Traveling Library No 10 in G. T. Ray's drug store for Osceola School district families. The program, backed by the Public Library Commission, offers 40 volumes at no charge for three months with rules for care and return.
A compact catalog style note lists diverse titles from adventure to science and history including Robison Crusoe and Jungle Book. The array features children’s readers such as Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Sailor Life on a Man of War alongside era texts like Century Book of the American Colonies and Cadet Life at West Point.
Shelby James Mackie and his wife Gitte travel from Bayard Nebraska to visit daughters Mrs Frank Brigham and George Brigham. Frey J A McBeth ships fat cattle to South Omaha. Brighams seek milch cows on valley farms. Jimmie McMeekin builds a new barn with G M Nelson at work. Frank Simmonds leaves for Vu and plans to move soon with his family to a future home in Lincoln.
A print notice extols a cough and cold remedy from T. Ray & Co as one of the best on the market, claiming it brings rest and relief for readers and highlights its usefulness against coughs colds and croup.
A vivid portrait from Frank Leslie's Monthly explains the cicada’s long underground life ending in a warm August emergence. The insect crawls upward with rough earthy features, then splits its shell to reveal a head and shining eyes as its birth completes.
A Scottish farm boy charged with trying to steal from a shop door argued he was merely going to steal. The judge replied that doing it and going to do it are the same and fined him ten shillings or ten days in jail. He later returned to court saying he would do it and that they were the same, implying understandings between them.
A vivid rainbow appeared in a blue morning sky over Richmond Virginia, visible for over an hour. Dr Taylor state chemist explains it as sunlight reflecting off tiny ice crystals carried high by a cold snap. The heat drives light through the icy bank creating color bands resembling a rainbow.
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