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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
3
Alan Mackenzie meets a distraught girl, the daughter of Hutchinson from the firm Dempster in Rio. The girl reveals her father’s violence and asks Alan not to reveal their connection while hinting at a planned arranged marriage. Alan vows discretion and seeks a future meeting.
On the eve of St Patrick by Birmingham a wife bought shamrock and kept it in water. Her husband returned late and later confessed he ate it thinking it was mustard and cress, leaving only roots in the dish. The tale ends with the note that fairy tales were useless.
The Shah is expected to arrive in England mid summer and will stay at Buckingham Palace. He will spend a couple of days at Windsor hosted by the Queen, attend entertainments with the Prince of Wales, Lord Salisbury and the lord mayor, and a gala opera performance will be held in his honor.
Ad copy extols Magnetic Starch as the best laundry aid promising long wear and wrinkle resistance. It notes Portland as England’s largest prison and mentions convicts there, while including quips about self-improvement and theatre managers seeking pay dirt.
An old notice promotes Grain-O as a grain based coffee substitute in grocery stores. It claims it suits delicate stomachs and is cheaper than coffee, costing 15 to 25 cents per package. The ad pitches Grain-O for all ages including children. It ends with a light jab about chiropodists.
A Pretty Shirt Waist laundered with Faultless Starch is praised at grocers for 10c. The note adds that a smokeless cigarette would be an improvement.
A patient describes fatigue appetite and mood swings while the doctor notes the ailment is due to nobody around to put a tack in the chair when seated. The punchline: three dollars.
An end of ad style item promotes Coca Dandruff Cure as the remedy to baldness. It states druggists sell it for one dollar and targets general readers with humorous lines about marriage and grave resting.
A salary of 18 dollars per week plus expenses will be paid to a man with one or two horse rig to introduce our Poultry Compound and Lice Killer among farmers. Address with stamp ACME MFG CO Des Moines Iowa.
It is stated that over 110 square miles of London receive about 1,100 tons of soot settling each year, shaping air quality concerns for residents and officials.
Chicago man Stephen Przyblyinski changes his name to Stephen Cummings. Deputy Clerk Schlitz of the superior court explains the variant surname origin from Polis meaning came.
A knight of the Garter appears in full regalia, wearing a blue velvet mantle with a star on the left breast, white trunk hose and stockings, crimson hood and surcoat, a dark blue velvet garter belt with gold motto, and a heavy gold collar of twenty six garter pieces. The George badge hangs from the collar, with the lesser George on a blue ribbon over the left shoulder, and the star features the St. George cross encircled by the garter.
London Financial News estimates Stratford-on-Avon gains five million dollars from Shakespeare's fame. Admission fees to Shakespeare's birthplace Anne Hathaway's cottage the church memorial and the grammar school yield about 150000 dollars yearly or three percent on the five million capital. Rail traffic from pilgrims and Stratford traders in photographs pamphlets and trinkets add further income not estimated.
A preacher rebukes a boy for smoking a cigarette. The boy replies that a family member gave him the cigarette from an opened box, prompting the preacher to question negligent or ignorant influences behind a boy's wrongdoing.
The annual report of Supt. John Lorenz indicates Hamilton’s gas works earned a net profit after expenses and interest. The city’s electric light plant is valued, with properties assessed near $500,000, reflecting a lesson in municipal ownership for Ohio cities.
Book offers announce Know Thyself for men only and The Science of Life with 870 pages and medical engravings. Papers range 6c postage, 25c paper cover, library edition $1.00. The Peabody Medical Institute Boston advertises health titles and related London pawnshop note.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder for fitting tight shoes and treating swollen hot sweating feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. It offers 25 cents and a free trial by mail addressed to Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York. A testimonial endorses Piso's Cure for consumption for coughs and colds.
An advertisement offers a free book of recipes from Walter Baker Co Ltd Dorchester Mass and asks readers to mention the paper. A casual note quotes an infant saying I feel rather rocky this morning and mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain and wind colic.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy priced at 75 cents. The copy includes a boast from the speaker claiming self reliance.
Stockholm University awards the first Doctor of Medicine degree to a woman, Fraulein Anna Stecksen, marking a historic achievement in Swedish higher education as inclement weather and rain are noted in the brief report.
An old advertisement promotes DERCOENS as the best corn remedy with a claim of vigorous growth and an original coat or coating attributed to Panwzn's Hark BaLean. It lists a price of 15 cents.
The article notes William Rockefeller recently had appendicitis surgery as a reminder that the three Standard Oil leaders face health and personal troubles. John D. Rockefeller suffers chronic dyspepsia. Henry M. Flagler has long endured domestic afflictions while William is recovering from an operation.
The July Century highlights its essay and imagery on Artistic Paris by Richard Whiteing. Eight full page drawings by Castaigne plus several more plates fill the issue, with Whiteing's refined French literary style guiding the pictorial commentary.
A proverb notes the son remains a son until he marries, while a daughter remains a daughter all her life. The line reflects enduring family ties and gendered expectations in older culture.
A short regional item reports that deaf individuals in the community tend to marry discreetly and keep marriages private. The note highlights social norms and possible cultural pressures influencing marital visibility among deaf people.
Blacksmiths across the land renew leather aprons twice yearly at Easter and Christmas. New sheep-skin designs feature diamond bibs worn down, with brass clasp backs and three colors white lemon tan. Prices run about a dollar with six month life.
Advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure swellen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions. It claims relief when shaken into shoes and notes 25c at druggists and shoe stores with a free sample offer from Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY.
The Townsend triplets, three sisters aged 77, will celebrate a Knox County Missouri birthday this week. They are in excellent health and recall their cotton mill days where General N. P. Banks spent his youth as a bobbin boy. The sisters still cherish memories of the man who later gained distinction.
An advertisement urges readers to avoid storing drugs in the stomach and promotes Beeman's Spell Gum as aiding natural forces to perform their functions. The copy emphasizes digestive harmony and whole-body balance.
Aged men hesitate to seek help, delaying diagnosis and treatment. The saying reflects belief that ignorance of illness causes prolonged suffering and worsens outcomes.
John D Rockefeller Jr and a Leather Trust stock deal mark his first market move about a year ago. He reportedly bought around 200000 shares as the stock rose from six to about forty on the New York Exchange. Since then the price has retreated, leaving the outcome uncertain.
Two Philadelphia sisters organized a ghost dance in New York where guests represented past figures such as Marie Antoinette. Dancers acted out chosen spectres in incognito with ghostly costumes, prizes awarded for best looks and best character interpretation.
The saying notes how many dollars lack sense alongside standard currency. It reflects on inflation and inflationary valuations in everyday finance.
A compact aphorism compares men described as jewels to diamonds, noting that most are solitary and subject to being cut much like gems, reflecting on the nature of male individuality and fragility.
Mrs Annie Tompson of South Hot Springs Ark writes that ten bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and seven Sanative Wash packages cured her chronic female weakness, leucorrhea, womb troubles, and inflammation. She weighs more, sleeps well, and can perform housework, praising the remedy and recommending it to others.
A concise reflection contrasts a sportsman as a person of fair play and discipline with sport as an activity or spectacle, noting character over spectacle in athletic competition. The remark emphasizes integrity, effort, and sportsmanship as the core values shaping athletic life.
The note urges trying Magnetic Starch and using it exclusively. It mentions two Missouri gentlemen Pleasant Duck and Blush Pigg as authorities or examples.
A short note markets Magnetic Starch as having no equal while observers quip that some people fish for compliments with bated breath.
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