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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
2
A fragmented OCR combines nursery verse with a Shakespearean excerpt. It references repeated lines about rebuilding and strength from Mother Goose melodies and ends with a passage from William Shakespeare on a wife's duties and a husband's labor. The mix contrasts playful lyric with classic domestic duty.
A Paris stage drama turns deadly when a 19 year old girl Josephine Repeche lingers at a lion cage with two keepers absent. She touches the lion with her bare arm and is fatally mauled as two lionesses join in. The incident ends with workers chasing off the animals and rescuers laying her body.
The Bakers Weekly notes bread is scarce in Austria Italy and Hungarian villages where sterz or beech moss porridge replaces bread. In Steiermark Carynthia and parts of the fyral sterz with milk forms daily fare while Italian peasants favor polenta boiled maize eaten hot or cold. Roumania’s mamaliga mirrors polenta with distinct grains kept separate. A social aside muses on polite responses to unclear words and habit change.
In 1909 Chapman Nebraska housed Bessie Hartman and Rosanna with their invalid mother after their father died in Anada Missouri. In 1963 Nebraska Children's Home Society took Bessie, now of age, and will not reveal her location to her sister Rosanna now Mrs. Geo Duerr unless she sends her address to Omaha.
Miss Ninette Porter of Braintree Vermont reports her life saved by Peruna after several lung hemorrhages and doctors failing to help. She began using Peruna after reading a testimonial, improved gradually, coughed up less stringy matter, grew fleshier, and now calls herself well.
An advertisement promotes Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for stomach weakness liver laziness and related ailments. It claims to restore stomach strength detoxify blood and combat bacteria with a known composition and lists ingredients on the bottle wrapper. Also mentions Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels.
Wizard Burbank claims first genuine spineless opuntia specimens appeared last summer after twelve years of trials. He notes a 6 foot tall specimen with a 66 foot diameter and explains leaf propagation from cuttings. A Santa Rosa leaf sold for $1000 to John M. Rutland of Melbourne, Australia, with rights in the southern hemisphere. He envisions cactus fruits and varied flavors like apples.
A summary of several court rulings: garnishment cannot reach salary due at service date. innkeeper liable for guest injury from a folding bed. superintending control allows reviewing trial court rulings including grand juror competence by mandamus if needed. a receiver’s payment of a note in supplementary proceedings does not satisfy indemnity policy terms nor give standing to enforce the policy.
A report notes Mexico's telegraph grid being government controlled. It also mentions a Topeka Kansas man enticed to take the Keeley cure and given sixty dollars to cover expenses, allowing him to embark on a drinking spree.
A dismissed remedy article promotes a pine compound drink with gly cerine and whiskey to treat colds and coughs. It claims easy access through druggists and wholesale houses and notes the product is sold in half ounce bottles labeled Concentrated. The piece ends with a local pharmacist backing its effectiveness and a proverb about settling debts.
A woman describes eighteen years of neuralgic headaches eased by Postum. She reports weight gain, relief after two weeks, and regained confidence to go out alone. The letter promotes The Road to Wellville and claims genuine testimonials appear periodically.
Mrs. Beacon, seeking Sunday dessert, questions late year berries over the phone and inspects in person. She finds them greenish and tastes several before ordering two boxes from the grocer who notes many ladies have examined the fruit.
A Louisville woman startled a block by Fourth Avenue when a speeding man rushed to cross. She blew a sharp whistle, a cue seldom heard, spurring the car to halt as the exhausted runner boarded and thanked her. The moment drew laughs from onlookers and a nod from the auto’s passerby.
The report recalls a record oil fire at a Dos Bocas well in Mexico burning about 60,000 barrels daily for nearly two months. Flames towered to 800 to 1,400 feet as crews battled the blaze. The piece contrasts this with social observations on work and behavior.
Reports from Winnipeg to the prairies show 1909 yields far above prior years with wheat alone yielding about 100 million dollars plus 60 million from oats and barley and additional gains from other crops and stock. American settlers have moved into Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, drawn by land offers and rising grain markets and improved railway capacity.
Caution against mercury in catarrh ointments warning of harm to sense of smell and health. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by EFJ Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as safe and mercury free. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation and notes Argentina's $75000 wireless project between Buenos Aires and Ushuaia.
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