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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
6
The piece explores the private lives of criminals, noting their Jekyll and Hyde existence and frequent home moves. It describes how professional crooks favor second rate lodging to avoid scrutiny, carry little baggage, and shift from city to city to dodge police.
A historical description outlines thieves living in flat houses and cheap hotels. One type rents furnished flats with a partner, often a wife who may be a shoplifter. The woman helps scout apartments by forged recommendations and disguises.
In Lakeside hospital Chicago Viola Carpenter died after a marriage to Robert M Taylor who was under police guard. The couple wed as she lay dying from a bullet wound with the priest officiating and Taylor weeping in his cell. Their romance began two years earlier in Akron Ohio where he worked.
A Chicago story recounts Viola Taylor dying after marrying John Taylor at her bedside, a priest officiating as bells toll. The tale expands into a discussion of married criminals, hidden lives, and the allure of crime among youths, detailing deception and the police capture of an educated, multilingual thief posing as a trustworthy house guest.
Denver coal mine owner Morris T. Streeter chartered a special train and sent a Denver specialist to an isolated point in Moffat county after a severe nosebleed. The journey included a 30 mile drive over rough Mount Streeter roads as doctors tried first aid and an airplane was considered. The train cost about $1700 and total expenses topped $2000 before the bleeding was stopped.
After Hungary signed the peace treaty framed by the Allies the capital Budapest faced grave unrest. Streets emptied, guards posted, and reports emerged of bodies in the Danube connected to personal crisis rumors. Soldiers in West Hungary threaten disobedience over evacuation terms.
In Wellsburg Pennsylvania couples flock to the city as taxis shuttle them around town. Drivers park at the station to ferry pairs to the courthouse two blocks away, then guide them to obtain licenses and escort them to a minister for marriage.
A sweep of Nebraska items reports on plans for a Stapleton Farmers Union elevator and a Holdrege flour mill, school raises for teachers, flood and crop notes, a Columbus mill fire, political shifts in Lincoln, hog vaccination in Dodge, large Chadron contracts, and state irrigation progress. Also noted are G A R encampment plans, labor wages, court cases, rail and road issues, and farm labor demand across counties.
A folkloric tale explains why the Himalayan bear is famed for stubbornness. Hunters lure the bear with bait on a low horizontal bough and trigger a swinging stone to box him. The bear battles the stone, grows enraged, and is finally netted by natives hiding below.
Forty to fifty Long Beach attorneys have donated law books from their private collections to form a cooperative law library at the Long Beach Public Library. Contributors may borrow books for five days, and the public may also consult them at the library. Some lawyers have donated as many as 200 books each, marked Loaned to the Long Beach Public Library.
A humorous tale finds a bride in a furniture store arguing with a persistent clerk. She declines a “wonderful bargain” by noting she can’t afford it and is happy with her wonderful husband who makes other goods unnecessary.
A Washington Post style note urges housewives to cultivate a cheerful appearance to foster a happy home. It stresses that routine ups and downs are common and early training in optimism helps, but real effort remains essential to succeed.
A reader describes starfish defense and regrowth, noting five arms and sequential escape by shedding limbs. It mentions sea cucumbers ejecting viscera to escape predators and that regrowing a damaged section can occur within days to weeks.
Between July 1 and January 9 the United States exported 82,083,000 bushels of wheat and 8,773,000 barrels of flour, a total equal to 121,980,000 bushels of wheat.
A Muskegon reader praises Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for his backache relief after six years of weakness. The testimonial notes regained strength and renewed ability to perform daily work at home and outside.
A period ad urges women to guard health and consider Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments. It offers confidential, woman-to-woman guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
Cuticura Ointment clears pimples and blackheads when smeared and washed off in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. Daily use helps keep skin clear. Include Cuticura Talcum for best results.
A janitor quips about taking children in the apartment as intruders cause disturbances and threaten phonographs, player pianos, and quiet in the building. The exchange highlights tensions over noise and property in the residence.
For years druggists note Dr Kilmer Swamp Root, a kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is sold by all druggists on merit and has many friends. Send ten cents for a sample bottle to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY. Mention this paper.
Dr BE Escomel describes in Analog de la Vacultad de Medicina Lima Peru that pseudo beetles produce blood longtime used by natives to treat warts. The growths turn white as if cauterized by an acid.
This ad copy touts Bayer Aspirin as genuine and safe, prescribed for over twenty years. It urges consumers to accept only an unbroken Bayer package with proper directions and notes small tin boxes of 12 tablets and larger packages sold by druggists.
A neighbor postpones lending tools, citing lack of heart to borrow. The speaker notes the delay interrupts their planned project and reflects on reluctance to ask for help.
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