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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1881
Page
3
Long page of community items from Osceola Nebraska including weather shifts cold snap and milder days. Mentions revival meetings in M K E church, farm and business ads, school and temple notes, and calls for correspondents and women suffrage meeting in Lincoln. Also reports snow delays, local marriages and civic notices.
Regular meeting of A. F. & A. M. to be held Saturday evening January 15. A. N. Jay serves as secretary.
Acclaimed Elocutionist Lydia Bell and teacher at Prof. Chamberlain's school of Elocution in Lincoln will visit Osceola for a public reading to benefit the Presbyterian church. A former pupil of Prof. Cumnock at North Western University, her dramatic readings have drawn warm receptions and enthusiastic applause. Time in Osceola to be announced.
Notice directs County Treasurer, Judge, Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff, Coroner, Surveyor, Superintendent, Notaries Public, Road Supervisors, Justices of the Peace, Assessors and Constables to file official bonds at once with the County Clerk. All prior bonds were destroyed by the courthouse fire on January 1, 1881, per County Commission action.
Call issued from Osceola Nebraska January 10 1881 for a Saturday January 15 11 oclock meeting in the Secretarys office above Arnolds Co store to elect a delegate to the State Board meet raise funds for outstanding orders and conduct other proper business President Marvin Kuyket and Mrs H C Birrensinger signatories urge large attendance
A reader proposes funding a public clock with a large dial in J. H. Abbot's drug store to provide official state time. The plan includes daily regulation by wire reports and public accountability for time errors, urging strict punctuality from schools and depot clock users.
The Far mers Club of School District No 22 chaired by President Geo. nacs held a meeting in the school house. Members discussed grass type and fuel strategy. They chose Kentucky Blue Grass for planting among trees and decided to apply grass receipts from five acres of corn or grain land to buy coal. The club meets every Wednesday evening.
Physicians of Nebraska are called to meet at the Commercial Hotel in Lincoln on January 18, 1881 at 2 PM to draft a bill for legalizing procuring anatomical material and dissection and to discuss other business affecting the medical profession. C C Reynonds J H Woopwanp J S Leonhardt N C Hastings W A Avery L Walker M Lewis.
An 1881 advertisement promotes the American Agriculturist as a practical magazine with indoor and outdoor content and numerous engravings. It highlights youth and children sections, humbug exposures, and a low subscription price of 1.50 for the year plus multiple-copy deals, published by Orange Judd Company in New York.
A periodical thanks punctual renewals and urges those in arrears to settle debts soon. The editor notes patience over a year and a half and warns the unpaid balance, described as a small amount per person, still adds a big burden to the business.
The excerpt urges readers to exercise a plain right to stop a newspaper by paying all arrears. It condemns returning papers with contempt and emphasizes notifying the editor honestly when discontinuing. It frames responsible payment and respectful communication as the proper course.
A reader corrects a Dec 29 report on a University examination, clarifying remarks about rigidity versus quality of pass rates in Natural Philosophy. The Osceola article also summarizes a Christmas Eve literary entertainment at the union school house with praise for Miss Stella Hawley, Dr. Hawley, Prof. Beeson and several pupils in vocal music, declamations, dialogues, and dramatic pieces.
A satirical jeremiad targets Jay Gould and allied magnates arguing their charitable poses fail to redeem their sins. It imagines the descent into hell blocked by Granger Church officials and misers unable to buy mercy, ending with a moral on earthly tricks provoking doom.
A sorrowful warning from a mother's voice about coughs croup and whooping cough leading to consumption. Promotes SHILOH'S CONSUMPTION CURE with prices 10 cents 50 cents and 1 dollar. Also offers Shiloh's Porous Plaster for back side or chest at 26 cents. Sold by F. A. Scovner.
Grain and produce prices listed for Osceola with ranges for wheat, corn, rye, flour, meal, butter and cheese. Eggs, potatoes, beef, pork, chickens, turkeys, cattle and hogs shown with several per unit price figures and shorthand descriptors.
County sessions record fund balances for railroad, school and road funds, totals shown, and loans noted. Officials direct telegraphic bids for re-binding damaged records and soliciting supplies from State Journal Co. and Omaha Republican Co. The board awards bids, with bond requirements, and adjourns to Jan 7 1881.
For sale or rent a hotel property opportunity in Osceola Nebraska. The Osceola House and its furnishings are offered on reasonable terms. Apply to D. P. Cummins in Osceola.
Historical promotional notice cites over 500000 bottles sold and more than 2000 cures for consumption with claims it relieves coughs croup asthma and bronchitis. It advises trying Shiloh's Cure for coughs and croup and notes it is sold by druggists.
J G Sfarkey a respected Iowa City citizen reports chronic indigestion and liver trouble for years, tried many remedies, but Shiloh's Vitalizer cured him completely. He calls it the best remedy he has known. price 75 cents and available through local seller.
Cornish and King have secured the agency for the Corbin Banking Company, described as the heaviest lending institution in the United States. They offer loans on liberal terms with ten percent interest straight, no advance interest, no fees for drawing up papers, no land appraisement, and money in ten days from application. Apply to Cornisu & Kino.
An old advertisement lists Brown's Amica Salve for cuts burns and frost bite, Brown's Coucu Balsas for sore lungs, Brown's Cough Balsam for coughs and colds, Brown's Tar Troches for sore throat and hoarseness, Brown's Liver Pills for headache and biliousness, Brown's Pepsin Toric for indigestion, German Catarrh Cure for catarrh, and Brown's Wratern Remedits for Western disease, with sale through dealers in Osceola and Nebraska.
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