This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 38 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
2
A meditation on life and death where the speaker, named or implied as Fle, frames mortality as a swift passage from life to grave. The piece links a seeker of good to higher powers that aid him in his journey.
The guide outlines a full day of meals centered on fruit, cereals, eggs, and meats. It suggests breakfast with fresh fruit or dried fruits, hot dishes, and bacon or sausage. lunch includes fish, vegetables, bread, and desserts. dinner features soups, vegetables, roast or meat loaf, and a simple dessert. It also notes cocktails and fruit cocktails as appetisers and provides a Pineapple Cocktail recipe with pineapple, citrus, orange peel, sweetening, and iced water.
A quote from Trine emphasizes that the mental attitude we adopt toward unfriendly events largely determines their impact on us, underscoring the power of perspective in daily life.
A luncheon feature describes several cream soups including potato cream soup made from mashed potatoes thickened with flour and milk, veal and celery soup strained and thickened with corn starch, and cream veal soup with eggs and milk. Also covered are egg soup with toasted bread and sweetbread soup with cream and whipped cream garnish.
In a remembrance from years past a parishioner recalls attending a Sunday service with an escort wearing a striking new derby hat. During the hymn, a loud report occurred as the wearer’s hat reportedly caused a startled reaction and embarrassment.
A dated, home kitchen guide outlines milk toast with rich buttered flour sauce and hot milk dipping, cheese optional for nourishment. It includes fruit soufflé with cornstarch and raisins, honey frosting, and quick potato rolls with yeast and riced potato dough.
The quote claims success follows good management while failure stems from ignorance carelessness and idleness. It presents a stark contrast between disciplined leadership and lax or negligent conduct.
The article gives practical kitchen guidance on using tripe with onions, preparing apricot sponge with gelatine and eggs, and making potato puree with garlic butter. It includes tips on cooking times, texture, and variations using prunes and ginger custard for dessert.
A reflective note defines criticism as seeking and sharing the best knowledge worldwide with honesty and ability. It emphasizes not addressing practical consequences or applications, noting questions of use will always demand attention elsewhere.
United States Department of Agriculture promotes black locust as a profitable durable timber for woodlots and fence posts. Growth yields posts in 14 to 20 years with high returns on good soils. insulator pin manufacture drives demand for the wood. Proper planting and care guard against locust borer damage and rapid in-tree deterioration if not harvested when ripe.
Agricultural note highlights that top dressing wheat with manure can increase yield. Indiana tests show two tons per acre may raise production by about ten bushels, while four tons add roughly two more bushels. Manure offers direct plant food and indirect winter protection, and often improves clover stands.
A report highlights absorbents like straw sawdust muck and loam to save liquid manure. Uncut straw absorbs two to three times its weight in water while fine cat straw absorbs six to nine times. Oats straw also provides plant nutrients especially potash.
Prepared by the United States Department. If possible all small tools for the farm should be purchased on one order. This will save time and usually money. It will entail a total expenditure large enough to impress the farmer with the importance of systematic care.
The stallion farm created by the U S department of agriculture and Wyoming Agricultural College at Buffalo Wyoming begins July 1 as the nations only such facility. It will be named the United States Wyoming horse breeding station.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes that marketing hay and roughage requires heavy handling and hauling to delivery points. This adds labor for farm teams and removes fertility from fields that could return as feed to livestock.
Farmers sold more than half of 1918 wheat in the July through October period, with 69.3 percent sold in the first four months. Sales then dwindled, reaching 1.5 percent of the year's total by June 1919, indicating rapid post harvest marketing followed by a sharp decline.
Guidance on painting poultry houses and other buildings using ready mixed paints or paste pigments. Steps include cleaning surfaces, priming with a mix of paint and linseed oil, and applying one or more coats. Whitewash is described as cheapest option for exterior or interior surfaces with instructions for plain and weatherproof formulas.
A method outlines tilting and rotating a freshly laid egg against a candle to reveal air space location and yolk movement. The process starts by grasping the pointed end, holding the blunt end up, and turning the egg quickly left or right to observe yolk motion for freshness.
USDA advises balanced rations using home grown grains with meat scraps or milk. Feed a scratch mix of corn twice daily and a mash of ground grains and meat scraps, plus a light morning corn for half an hour and a full afternoon feed, with exercise to promote welfare.
Poultry raising attracts those who enjoy work with animals and fowls. Men and women often find value in poultry farming and some women are described as earning nice incomes from poultry.
An egg shell is composed almost entirely of lime. The bone of the fowl contains considerable lime and body tissues to a lesser extent. Oyster shells limestone grit or ground bone are essential in the ration.
Farmers are urged to act against gophers in well drained orchards where they tunnel deep and nest beneath cherry trees. Early detection and targeted control are recommended to protect orchard roots and tree health.
Farmers near large hotel and restaurant areas can raise squab broilers. At seven to eight weeks old and weighing three quarters to a pound, these plump young chicks often fetch around one dollar per pair.
A dry magic mix totaling 350 pounds uses wheat middlings bran corn meal and meat scrap fed in hoppers with skim milk offered for consumption. Fowls should have access to the mix at all times and clean up the remaining milk.
The essay describes a wind driven cleansing of the environment after summer debris. It details sweeping dust, spills, seeds and decay as the wind scours the earth. The scene ends with a refreshed, spring like cleanliness and a satisfied voice.
In 1902 Ole Hanson describes arriving in Seattle and pitching a tent on Beacon Hill. He recalls the child-city spreading below with tide lands, bulrushes, and stilted streets. He told onlookers that Seattle would be his home and that he would become mayor, though they laughed at a wagoner becoming leader of a city then about 100,000.
The piece praises Czech artistry and courage, noting their powerful technique and imaginative sketches portraying a noble soldier. It highlights their musical strength, likening their singing to a new Marseillaise and praising hymns heard in Petrograd, aboard box cars, and among wounded Red Cross car routines.
Astronomical winter begins at the solstice around December 21 as the sun enters Capricorn and ends at the March equinox. In common speech winter spans December February in the United States and November January in Great Britain.
A classroom drill starts with apple and ape. Betty, puzzled at first, smiles and answers half apple, amusing the Chicago American reporter and teacher with her quick wit.
The emerald has long been known in Europe and parts of the Orient. Its name derives from a Greek term smaragdos noted by Theophrastus about three centuries before Christ.
The Louisville Courier-Journal quotes a witty line about a bootlegger who supposedly sells both the intoxicant and its antidote in a single, sly transaction. The remark frames prohibition era vice with a sharp, satirical jab at illicit commerce.
Charles W. L. Richardson of Castine Me reports a spruce tree in his yard with a buttress circumference of eight feet and an estimated height between 69 and 75 feet, attracting local attention for its impressive size.
A Binghamton, New York woman reports recovering from nervous prostration after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad highlights relief from nerves, displacements, inflammation, irregularities, backache, and dizziness and invites letters for advice to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn Mass.
The piece notes that most monarchs have a double and cites Nasr-ed-din’s lookalike Edmund Yates who was marketed in Brussels. It mentions Andrew Lang’s theory that Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots’ second husband resembled the queen and may have impersonated her to seize the throne.
An old advertisement extols Green's August Flower as a gentle laxative that regulates digestion and stimulates bile flow. It claims to cure indigestion nervous dyspepsia sluggish liver and constipation and notes it is sold by druggists worldwide for over fifty years.
A French wireless station at Croix d'Hines near Bordeaux will be the world’s strongest, featuring four 275 meter tall masts capable of aerieis. The tower will link directly by wireless with Washington to the west and China to the east, marking a leap in transcontinental communication.
An advertisement promotes Cuticura Talcum as part of the Cuticura Trio Soap Ointment and Talcum. The powder is described as exquisitely scented for face skin baby and dusting purposes and offered at 25 cents each in stores everywhere.
Advice urges people to prepare financially before a downturn or sudden costs. Encourages setting aside savings now to weather unforeseen events and maintain stability during tough times.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.