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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1894
Page
3
A damaged OCR snippet mentions vaccines and wealth, then lists scattered dates and counterfeit health elixirs. Names like Wabash Ticket and Craftox appear amid garbled instructions and promotional products. The piece reads as an era ad collage with no clear narrative or verifiable details.
Nettie Coulter receives an invitation to Bee’s party but falls behind in class. Miss Stewart disciplines her with a dunce’s cap and a dance cup, then forgives after Nettie confesses and improves. Nettie attends the party with her mother’s support and enjoys the cheerful celebration with Bee and Mr Norris.
A report details how poisons like belladonna morphine and arsenic remain easy to obtain in original packaging from New York drugstores. A doctor, a woman in an asylum and others describe repeated sales to unfamiliar customers, prompting concern over regulation and safety.
The tale recalls Mark Twain with John Mackay employing Maurice Hoeflich to back a grasshopper contest in Carson Valley Nevada. Hoeflich’s famous jumper allegedly reaches twenty four feet after an ammonia ploy. Mackay’s entry fails, the crowd watching as the insects are lined up and touched to start the race.
A prominent New York dental surgeon shares practical guidelines for oral hygiene. Use a soft brush with lukewarm water, brush up and down three to six times daily, and rinse with tepid water. Avoid strong pastes, soaps, or hard brushes that irritate gums. Use precipitated chalk powder sparingly, and consider listerine as a mouthwash after meals.
A dialogue about future energy asks what to burn if coal rises. Twitter suggests replacing coal with alternatives. Fritter jokes about burning coal dealers.
A speaker muses that great men cannot witness all their efforts fully. The dialogue notes Ben Franklin living amid a city crowded with trolley cars as a vivid imagined outcome of prolonged life.
A cook tells a madam she cannot stay, citing incompatible living habits. The speaker offers to write a letter of recommendation for the next cook, while claiming no personal grievance.
The judge cites an admission from the defendant who says he knocks his wife down with a club and kicks her whenever she annoys him. The exchange prompts discussion of mitigating circumstances in the case.
In Middletown Delaware a 8000 dollar investment built a shirt factory rented to a nearby firm. After two years it produces 600 dozen shirts weekly employing eighty women, paying wages up to ten dollars weekly. The venture supports extension and yields rent equal to interest. Local leaders honor the workers in daily life.
An article notes palmists debate the marriage line on the hand. One authority links upward curves to non marriage, others cite married and happy people with such lines. A claim about the hill of Mercury is disputed, with editors viewing these lines as signs of attachment present in many hands.
The article traces how Red Clay Creek and White Clay Creek and related churches in Northern Delaware underwent name changes. Redlycrick Whitelycrick and Hoddychristeen show phonetic shifts while Appoquinmink retains its form, possibly with Indigenous variations.
A new boarder chokes on coffee at his first meal, prompting the widow to remark on a man with two throats. The tale notes her frustration over the amount a single throat can destroy while humorously recounting the incident.
The Acarnanians were renowned for skill with slings in Greece. In Marathon plain and surrounding areas metal projectiles including lead balls have been unearthed. Inscriptions and carved devices on relics show names and epithets with a warning legend meaning Look out.
The record notes about 180000 yearly crisis reports globally and rising. Most occur in June, fewest in September, with nearly half between 6 am and noon.
A brief exchange contrasts women and men in wealth display. She criticizes reliance on others wealth while he questions possibilities, highlighting social attitudes about status and money.
Colonel Richard Malcolm Johnson recounts Georgia weather tales from his visit to Hancock County. He describes a 200 pound man lifted by a hurricane, a chimney toppled, barns torn open, and animals suspended and repositioned without harm. A trunk, bandbox, and cosmetics moved across counties, with a telegraph pole perforated by a storm shard as proof.
A Brooklyn Eagle note examines the term Uncle as a punny label for pawn brokers linked to uncus meaning a hook. It traces phrases like Gone to my uncle s and C est chez ma tante through French argot and medieval usage citing usurers and guardians kept in pawn.
Paolo Montegazz of Florence furnishes an opinion in a German paper praising Spanish women for beauty. He describes them as witchingly beautiful with small hands and feet, large eyes, and a sun-burnt marble palace look, noting they are religious, ignorant, jealous, sensitive, idle and proud.
A humorous exchange outlines a race betting system focusing on track conditions distance weather weight jockey owner purse and odds. The joker suggests a wife should guard the winnings and a safe deposit vault is the safest place to hide.
A fragment notes Markham’s habitual absent mindedness and reports he went out to dine yesterday. He apologized profusely after criticizing the spread at the meal, reflecting on the poor quality of the dinner and implying a turn in his mood or behavior.
Partial read of a 19th century-style account describes Mexican cooking fixtures built into walls with a central fire using gnarled sticks, tortillas made from crushed corn, and limited ovens. It notes minimal cleaning tools with washing done on the floor and improvised dish drying against walls. The piece quotes ads for Salva tion Oil and Dr Bull’s products as consumer endorsements amid a scattered industrial notice.
Serious discoveries about Buckingham Palace drainage have sparked debate on its future use as a royal residence. The main sewer runs beneath the building and seeping passages threaten foundations, with proposed sewer alterations deemed impracticable and costly repairs anticipated.
The article argues against irritating nasal remedies and favors non irritating douches and powders. It asserts many sufferers with chronic nasal catarrh have achieved lasting relief through Ely's Cream Balm, citing numerous testimonies of long term relief.
An electro aerial railroad proposed to carry mail and perishable freight at over 250 miles an hour between Detroit and Cleveland, a 170 mile distance. Inventor Albert L. Widdis claims practicality. experimental line ran at the Chicago fair with a four wheel elevated car, cone ends to cut air resistance, powered by a trolley wire. No passenger service planned, but freight and mail could traverse the continent in a day.
The Passenger Department of the New York Central releases five new etchings graded for office display with no advertising. Highlights include Washington Bridge at 181st Street, Rock of Ages Niagara Falls, Old Spring at West Point, 999 and the DeWitt Clinton, and Rounding the Nose Mohawk Valley. Priced 50 cents each, or 75 cents mailed postpaid from W B Jerome Chicago.
A 833 incident on a rural crossing led to a costly loss of eggs butter and horse after a farmer failed to hear a train horn. Ashen Lugster and Stephenson devised a boiler horn that echoed from engines and soon all locomotives wore similar shrieking whistles, ending silence at cross gates.
A Montana planter reports growing one bushel of Great Northern oats into three hundred bushels after careful tillage and irrigation. He asks readers to mail for a sample and seed catalog. A Scotch preacher rouses a sleeping congregation with a sharp urging to wait for his start. Beechem's Pills advertised as cleansing aid with a 25 cent box.
Announcement for Bleeping Car Hate tours from Chicago to Los Angeles and San Francisco via scenic routes. Phillips offers personally conducted trips with a special agent, departures twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday, plus a daily Southern Route service via Indian Territory Ft Worth to West Coast. Tickets available at Rock Island office 104 Clark Street Chicago.
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