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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1903
Page
6
Humphrey Armstrong leads a perilous defense against Black Mazzard and his crew, Mary Dell survives, Dinny fights bravely, and Bart saves the injured with aid from an English captain. The rescued party returns to safety as Humphrey contemplates the future and Lady Jenny’s marriage.
In a dim chamber the rescue leader lowers his dead comrade’s hand as Bart gazes at the lifeless, stern face. Humphrey learns the truth is kept as a private secret between them alone, with hats doffed and a hush over the fallen.
A narrator recalls a stubborn Englishman who vows to remain faithful to memory of Commodore Junk, gazing at a carved idol in a chamber with a stone altar as he whispers to Mary Dell that he shall never love again. The scene closes on his solemn pledge.
In Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly an excerpt describes a jewel thief and accomplice plan a large theft. They scout a gated property, confront a pursed homeowner with a gun, flee as a police baton cracks the air, hide in a dog kennel, and escape at dawn with shoes, $80, and a hat swap while disguising as a workingman on a New York trip.
A Scientific American report notes that wrapping 16 candlepower incandescent lamps in raw cotton caused smoking and sudden ignition when air drafts contacted the softened bulb. The glass gave way under air pressure and the filament lit the glowing material, warning against placing cotton or varnished lamps near decorations to avoid fires.
A historical article catalogs foot shapes by nationality, describing the French as narrow and long, Spanish curved with high instep pride, Arab high arches, Scotch high and thick, Irish flat and square, English short and fleshy, Grecian ideal in Athens, and noting Swedes Norwegians Germans as large footed, Americans small, with peculiar traits such as Russian toes webbed at the first joint and Tartarian toes of uniform length.
A 20th century memorial at the Bridgewater trustees head offices in Lancashire marks an unusual clock striking thirteen. The public clock was designed to help workmen resume after dinner, echoing the Duke of Bridgewater’s 18th century Worsley clock made for workers who missed the one o’clock strike.
A strange method explains lighting a cigar using a disc of clear ice two sides melted into a double convex lens. By focusing sunlight through the ice lens onto the cigar end, the flame is produced, given the sun shines.
The report lists park areas for major cities: New York City 6 766 acres with 3 849 in the Bronx. Chicago 2 650 acres St Louis 2 480 and Philadelphia 3 675 and notes Fairmount Park as part of Philadelphia. 2 008.
Georgia tops the nation with about 7,660,000 peach bearing trees followed by Maryland 4,615,000 New Jersey 2,700,000 and Delaware 2,400,000 in a regional agricultural tally.
A fragment argues that world commerce has grown two and a half to three times over thirty years and questions why people resist change when better outcomes are possible. It reflects on prudence versus self will and economic progress.
In Cincinnati Enquirer prose, Bozeman dodges a fishing trip while his wife presses to join. He feigns a tourist excuse to spare her distress as tensions mount over stock interest and secrecy. She demands clarity and insists on accompanying him, altering the trip's course.
A Denver News anecdote describes a Chinaman talking fast in pidgin English causing perceived multiple voices on a line. An offhand remark about a crossed wire reveals two Chinamen in Denver and Trinidad sharing a line for per-minute pay. The tale ties to Sam Lee of the Six Companies and a broader scene of street music and church charity observed by bystanders.
A blind man played a cornet on a crowded Philadelphia street, delivering church hymns such as Jesus Lover of My Soul and Rock of Ages. Passersby paused, some scoffing at religion, yet showing quiet respect as the performance drew to a dignified close.
A 16-stone man enters a Swindon barber and orders silence for a plain haircut. After the cut he declares barbers cannot work properly without talking, then reveals he is the glazier from next door and vows no news talk. London Answers notes the humorous misunderstanding.
A tale from Lincoln's early career recalls he rode a fast horse to a convention but arrived late for his hoped to serve. At the livery stable the keeper says the horse is used to draw funeral hearses, deemed too slow for resurrection.
The article notes a proposed abbreviation United States of North America, or Usona, as a technically correct yet memorable designation. It explains growing adoption across multiple business sectors and predicts wider use in commerce.
Dialogue suggests workers urging a walkin' delegate to take up their wage demands. Dover Pell questions the matter while Slummer and Puck reference the Sinners' Union and the prospect of improved pay through representation.
A Jena factory uses surplus hot water to supply laborers with nearly a thousand baths per week, turning excess utility into worker benefits.
Reverend Jenkin Lloyd Jones extols home and marriage as sacred centers where the soul gains strength and intellect guides love. He warns against gossip and frivolous courtship, urging sober, thoughtful wooing and a mind as core to home making as passion.
Fragmentary sermon extols visions of Christian civilization and personal duty. It links obedience to family, school, and law as foundations of character, warns against disobedience to spiritual law, and cites Paul’s conversion as exemplar of duty through faith. The text emphasizes industry, virtue, and collective improvement.
Sermon notes urge belief in good visions to inspire better life and people. It cites Acts 26 19 and Luther on the road to Damascus to argue a vivid vision renews perception, motivates action, and elevates mankind when trusted and believed in.
An essay discusses miracles and healing through faith and divine energy, arguing that many cures occur by mental and spiritual means rather than modern science. It cites Augustine, Christian proof of miracles, and the idea that faith can interpose God in sickness, while noting some see labor rights as divinely sanctioned.
Fragmentary notes describe a Methodist sermon by Rev W K Wyat on obedience to God. It references Ohio and emphasizes the need for faithful conduct, with readers urged to align life with divine guidance.
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