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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1880
Page
8
George W. Crozier delivers an 1880 oration at the University Exhibition on the value of humble actions. The speech emphasizes attention to small deeds shaping character, conscience, and public life, urging practical virtue over grandiosity. The address blends moral philosophy with civic reflection.
A speaker urges kindness to alcohol affected neighbors, condemning cruelty and gossip while highlighting the Nebraska Wesleyan University progress in Polk County. He praises local support, notes 70 students, upcoming building, and promise of 100 students next year, urging ongoing effort and education.
The B and M offers through sleepers from the Missouri River to Chicago with ten minute connections at Pacific Junction and continued service to the East Southeast and North via Peoria. Lincoln ticket office reservations for berths by telegraph or Missouri River to Chicago applications. Dining cars and Pullman sleepers noted with reliable connections to St Louis and destinations in Ohio Kentucky and Indiana.
Property listings offer 13 to 15 and more items in Osceola including 10 lots, 169 acres near town, a two story frame house with rooms, 160 acres with 90 under cultivation, a business stand, and two quarter sections. Terms described as easy.
In Pleasant Prairie the community reports new residents and family joys with two births since the last issue, a string of welcome rains, and growing crops with small grain below average. Local repairs include wind pump damage and a large new barn being built by Jacob Kuerr while quoits gains popularity and baseball interest rises. Old Cleveland widow Mrs Wade visits L K McGaw's family.
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