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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1880
Page
5
Local notices promote Drew's as a destination for dry goods groceries cloaks hosiery and carpets with listed sales and items. The Osceola area features changing merchants, ministerial visits and community updates including road concerns and school reports.
The town rapidly expands with Krumbach and Thelen stocking hardware and a new drugstore ready soon. Panter plans full goods, and a livery stable frame rises. A. es Bailey to build a dwelling, C F Gerding builds a farm house and stable, and a marriage rumor swirls as holiday chatter ends.
Lillie V. Thornton, Teacher, notes many Banner scholars for January 1880. Names include Fred Hartney, Eugene Pulver, Clarence Shaw, Orland Heald, Bert Butterfield, Rozetta Butterfield, Emma Livingston, Minnie Lampman, Charlie McCarty, Robert McCarty, Alvert Snider, Bertie Lampman. Encourages more entries from boys and girls.
In Clarksville style prose the ad promotes independence and urges residents to buy where prices are lowest. It touts Drew's Store in Osceola as the place to purchase goods and go home feeling they have earned a good day's pay.
Mrs. Livingston informs ladies of Osceola and vicinity that she is prepared to provide dress making and hair dressing in the latest styles. She will be found next door to the photograph gallery in Osceola Nebraska.
To Stromsburg residents and farmers in Stromsburg Precinct the notice proclaims savings of 15 to 25 percent by buying at Drew's Store in Osceola. It urges careful consideration and a decision on whether it pays to deal there, noting substantial everyday savings.
The people of Arcade and vicinity are urged to buy goods at Drew's Clothing Dry Goods and Shoe Store in Osceola to pay the same prices as merchants in their town.
The people of Colorado decide to use only Brown's Family Remedies for the Ute issue, and the Utes concede. Sold by druggists everywhere.
To all persons are indebted to me for goods purchased prior to January 1st please call and settle. If you lack cash offer a short time to pay and square up the old books. H. A. Scott. H. T. Arnold & Co. will continue to keep the largest and best stock of general merchandise in Osceola. We guarantee goods and prices.
In Pleasant Prairie Mr Hornback leads a progressing school with inventive teaching. A former teacher may get an introduction to her father’s boot, while a singing school at the Pleasant Prairie school house begins with rough start but aims to succeed. Lewis P Green of York county fractures a leg in a pony accident, setting by Dr. Brown. The piece comments on revival debates, science, and religion shaping a more rational era.
A brief public notice seeks two suitable cows for rental or purchase and invites bidders to contact the Record office for details.
A vintage ad touts Brown's CovuGH Balsam as a cure for coughs and lung issues. Marketed by Brown's, it claims widespread availability through all druggists with emphasis on its healing promise.
The last week’s Arcade advertisement spurred rising real estate prices and brisk business. Elevators and livery stables rise near Osceola, with farmers optimistic about town lot wealth. A Blue Ribbon Club debate covered intoxicants versus law and Osceola ties appear.
Some of your family may need Brown’s ABNICA Salve at all times for healing cures of burns bruises frost bites old sores and inflamed eyes. Sold by S. G. Panter and John H. Abbot Osceola and D. C. Brannan Stromsburg.
Silver Creek residents show shrewdness by buying all dry goods clothing boots and shoes at Drew's Store in Osceola where a well assorted stock and very low prices attract customers.
Hoarseness and throat soreness urge use of Brown's Tar Troches. The advertisement claims they cure soreness and strengthen the voice. Druggists stock the remedy.
Farm for Sale: 160 acres, 90 cultivated, forest and apple trees. Terms by J. A. Woon, Jeweler, in P. O. Notice. Also advertised: a black male horse about 4 years old and a pony colt about nine months old. Jacob Knerr, Sec. 14, T. 18, Range 2 West. 5t
A local seller announces a large stock of Lumber Latch Doors Windows Building paper and related items with promise to serve buyers locally. Also a notice seeking any quantity of eats at 25 cents per bushel from Kimmel & Co.
Wanter To sell a quarter section of land within one mile of Osceola a bargain is sold before the first of January. W. F. Kimmel.
H C Dunning announces a private sale at his Arcade Nebraska property for sixty days featuring 1 span of horses 1 wagon 1 set harness 1 reaper 3 corn plows 1 riding plow 2 harrows and other farming implements. Sale runs for the next sixty days at his place.
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