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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
2
The article discusses agricultural experiments in Palestine aiming to revolutionize United States wheat cultivation. It notes Adrianople’s capitulation expected soon and Balkan plenipotentiaries following developments as European powers influence outcomes.
State Treasurer George Wednesday filed a million dollar bond to cover his elected term. The bond covers eleven companies. Governor, attorney general, and state auditor reviewed and approved the bonds. Deputy State Treasurer Danielson also had his bond approved and filed that day.
Professor Aaron Aaronson of the Haifa Jewish agricultural experiment station outlined his wheat experiments at the University of Chicago. He says the discovery of wild wheat will revolutionize U S cultivation and eventually double global wheat output.
Lincoln Star editor John W. Cutright, a prominent Democrat, is proposed as Nebraska s elector to carry the state s vote to the electoral college in Washington. Local Democrats back his candidacy though no other candidates have emerged.
Permission granted to the Kansas Natural Gas Company to increase rates by Judge Pol lock in the federal court Kansas City Kansas. The price demanded ranges from 16 to 31 cents per thousand cubic feet. The court order will in many cities double the present gas price.
Lincoln Nebr the state legislature in a joint session canvassed the November election results for state officers congressmen and constitutional amendments Wednesday afternoon. Senator J H Kemp president pro tem of the senate presided and Speaker Kelley announced the tabulated vote by Secretary of State Wait. Both houses adjourned thereafter.
State Auditor elect W B Howard announces the appointment of John Barth an actuary of the Woodmen of the World Omaha as an insurance examiner in Lincoln Nebraska.
The transport Prairie with 28 officers and 528 Marines aboard arrived at the Philadelphia navy yards on Tuesday, coming from Nicaragua. The Marines had been sent last August to protect American interests during the rebellion and for active service.
Washington reports W W Cowgill son of Dr Cowgill of Lincoln has been appointed a cadet to West Point by Representative Maguire. He will take his examinations next April.
J C Edwards aged 26 of Watertown South Dakota died asphyxiated in a refrigerated potato car at Fort Dodge Iowa. He had boarded a car shipped from Sioux Falls to St Louis and Illinois Central officials investigate who closed and sealed the door while he slept.
The United States mint in Denver receives its first parcels post package, an ore shipment from Oklahoma. It marks the first ore ever sent by mail to any destination.
In Pomona California, freezing temperatures drove hundreds of acres of orange groves to abandon hope of salvage. Landowners warn losses could total hundreds of thousands of dollars as the mercury fell late Monday night.
Short pithy notices summarize health clinic activities across several areas. Key updates include schedules, services offered, and hours. Readers gain quick access to nearby clinics, hours, and contact points.
President Taft renominates Charles P. Neill as labor commissioner. He opposes arbitration of canal tolls by The Hague tribunal.
Representative William W. Wede Meyer of Ann Arbor Michigan jumped overboard from a ship at Colon Panama during President Taft isthmus visit and drowned.
The report notes motorists will pay nearly double for gasoline starting January 1 1912. It also lists diverse 1912 items including bullion receipts at the Denver mint totaling 38947033.98 dollars an increase of about 2054359.93 over 1911.
A digest of scenes from the United States includes extensive cold in California orange groves frozen, the Sherman estate valued at 370075.30, Birmingham heat records top 73, a Colorado blizzard loss, and political shifts with J N Heiskell named to the Senate. Also noted are a massive Union Pacific locomotive order, Gideons meeting in Minneapolis, and various crime or disaster items including a $90,000 frontier smuggling incident.
Lincoln hosts the twelfth annual Nebraska state agricultural association January 20 to 24 with copies available from the state board of agriculture. A bill to place state telephones under state ownership is to be introduced by Rep. George W. Fuller. The state treasurer asks banks with state funds to post bonds for the coming biennium. An appeal seeks action to stop dynamite fishing in the Missouri River.
The report covers Senate and House activity with omnibus claims, tariff schedules, and money trust hearings. It notes Archbald impeachment testimony, Swanson road bill for roads, and adjournment details. It highlights hearings on pottery tariffs, national banks’ loans, and shipping trust inquiries as well as currency reform talks.
Adjutant General Phelps announces the Nebraska national guard will supply vaccination material if a sufficient number of volunteers in any company consent to take the anti typhoid shot.
December 1912 recorded only two one hundredths of an inch of precipitation, nearly tying a record for the smallest moisture since 1881, with only December 1889 drier at zero precipitation.
A fifty member alumni committee will file briefs to legislators during the upcoming session to lobby for the university. Professors and instructors are prohibited from participating due to a regents rule adopted two years ago.
Two acres on the Omaha Indian reservation in Thurston county, former site of an 1856 Presbyterian mission, have been granted to the state historical society per Frances La Flesche who works with the federal government in Washington. The board of purchase and supplies bought provisions and clothes for inmates of state institutions for the coming three months, and secured flour at $2 per hundred pounds and sugar just under five cents per pound, lower than in two years.
Official reports show Nebraska added less than forty miles of railroad in 1912. Outlook for the coming year predicts limited mileage growth but new connecting links outside the state will add a fuel supply line for much of Nebraska. Overall prospects improve from last year.
The state banking board has levied the final one fourth of one per cent assessment on state banks for the bank guaranty deposit fund. The levy applies to the six months ending December 1, 1912 with 695 banks reporting an aggregate average deposit of 82,981,604 dollars, producing 201,730 dollars in funds.
The state association of county and district fairs will hold its annual meeting in Lincoln on January 21, in connection with the meeting of organized agriculture.
Members of the employers liability and workingmen's compensation commissions have decided that two separate bills for enactment would be presented at the coming session of the legislature. Both will likely follow in the main the proposed bills over which hearings have been held in this city and at Lincoln.
The Nebraska railway commission issued an order directing Bell and Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph to stop discriminating against Postal Telegraph and Cable.
Lincoln and other cities see petitions urging Congress to enact immediate national ownership and control of public telephone and telegraph lines. Sheriff Hyers of Lancaster County proposes keeping trustees outside prison walls to curb contraband, citing Montana's success with the plan and the need for continuous oversight inside facilities.
Monday reports show Senate actions on expanding the campaign investigation committee powers and creation of an industrial commission for corporate control. Gompers testifies on anti injunction bills and the dynamite case, while Works seeks treasury expense data for government health services in 1912. House adjourns after routine calendar work and tariff hearings begin.
Governor elect Morehead offers R G Clark the superintendent post at the Kearney industrial home. Clark, current Harvard city schools chief, was a defeated candidate for state superintendent in November.
A delegation from the Masonic Grand Lodge of Massachusetts led by Grand Master Everett C. Denton sails to Panama to establish a lodge there. The Panama lodge will be under Massachusetts jurisdiction, as with lodges already operating in several South American countries.
Fort Collins reports Mrs. Alice Mc Millan 55, long time California arrival, missing in a severe blizzard near Chambers Lake at the Continental Divide. Forest rangers and volunteers scour the hills for any trace without success.
John G Wooley former presidential candidate on the Prohibition ticket denounces his allegiance to the Prohibition party in a statement issued in Battle Creek Michigan. He calls the party a lost cause and steps back from its ranks.
Washington Major General Wood announced that the army and navy will be represented at the March 4 inauguration in a simpler form, aligning with President-elect Wilson’s wishes. The two services together will number about ten thousand troops. Thomas Nelson Page reported on the inauguration committee meeting, noting the desire for restraint in pomp.
A social gathering of electricians at the dockyard marks completion of the first three steamers fitted with electric lights. A worker shares a boast about wiring and asks for help to get the line running, inviting a practical solution to lay the wires.
A fragment discusses different wording about distinction and asks what has been done that was original or out of the ordinary in a stock transfer. It refers to a part in the actual transfer of several shares on the New York exchange.
A short quip notes a man asking if his wife can keep a secret and answers that she could only if there is nobody around to tell it to, reflecting a dry social joke about discretion.
A devoted collector uncovers several Robert Louis Stevenson writings in Samoa and Hawaii. Found are an essay on witnessing a volcano, a South Sea fiction, numerous short verses, and an unfinished blank verse Maui legend. The finder expects these items to shed new light on the Scotsman's Pacific years.
A fire broke out in the southwestern part of the Bank of England in London, causing flooring and joisting damage. Bank officials discovered the blaze and controlled it with their own apparatus in thirty minutes, aided by a lieutenant and twelve Irish Guards with fixed bayonets managing the crowd alongside police.
A humorous exchange notes the construction of a pedicure manual while joking about foot notes. The dialogue centers on compiling the manual and the abundance of foot oriented remarks.
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