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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
7
Betta fish forms a bubble nest by releasing sticky bubbles at the surface to create a dome two inches wide. The male then defends the nest, mates with a chosen female, and tends eggs until they hatch. He may later cannibalize unhatched offspring.
The article notes Coventry honors Lady Godiva and the legendary Peeping Tom with statues and effigies, but recent scholarship questions both the tale of Tom being blinded and Godiva’s historic ride, suggesting the story grew as a later legend and that Godiva’s existence is uncertain without direct documentary evidence.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has the longest single span at 4 200 feet with a total length of about 9 200 feet. The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge extends eight and a quarter miles with east and west bay crossings and Yerba Buena island tunnel connections.
A Frenchman in 1797 Ohio spoke with the Indian chief Little Turtle about a theory that Indians descended from dark skinned Tartars of Asia. He presented a map suggesting Tartars’ possible route to America and Little Turtle questioned why Tartars resembling Indians could not be among them.
The brownish yellow oil from chaulmoogra seeds has long helped treat leprosy amongst natives of Burma and India. Interest by American and European doctors surged about forty years ago, as lepers once swallowed the acrid oil and applied it to their sores. The tree grows wild in Burma, lower Bengal, and Assam.
Collier's Weekly notes whistling seen as bad luck across cultures. Moslems call it devil's music and Icelanders warn of divine law violation. Mines and theater dressing rooms are said to invite disaster with a whistle and proverbs from several languages warn of misfortune.
The cactus family or cactaceae spans globular peas to fifty foot giants. The giant cereus in Arizona California and northern Mexico can reach tall single shafts while southern Mexico hosts vast umbrageous forms. Cacti include more than 5000 named species with diverse colors and shapes.
The origin of the term blarney traces to Elizabethan days with Lord Clancarthy’s wordy excuses to the English queen. Elizabeth allegedly sighed that the communication was more than blarney, linking the phrase to the famed stone’s supposed infection of the mouth by contact.
A description places St Patrick's Well near Cellen Bridge on the Old Coach Road, notes a 1608 founding, and records King Niall Caille’s 846 drowning as a warning to invaders. It mentions the Royal College and the school originally founded by St Patrick.
Cattle receipts at Omaha on Tuesday reached 6 500 head with price gains led by top steers at 11 25 and heifers at 10 00 New highs for the season in many classes Feeders and aged sheep held firm Fat lambs declined 25 40 cents with Idaho and natives selling at 9 00 and 8 75 respectively Hog prices opened higher as buyers dominated the market with light weights at 8 90 9 00 and sows 6 75 7 60 The report notes steady feeder lambs and generally improved tone across cattle sectors
An Ans Wars Magazine writer notes differences between real and imitation gems. Fissure lines appear in natural rubies but run straight in synthetics, revealing fakery mainly in cutting and setting. Pearl blisters can be spotted by experts. hidden lake can fool a refractometer. The piece also explains the Mediterranean Strait of Gibraltar as an inlet and its water balance with the Atlantic.
The Stratford on Avon cottage where William Shakespeare is believed born in 1564 remains a government property museum. Visitors climb narrow stairs to the second floor room and view a garden famed for flowers named in his plays. Shakespeare’s remains rest in Trinity Church with a commemorative epitaph. A 1895 bronze statue by Frederick MacMonnies, cast in Paris, stands in the Library of Congress gallery.
A London Answers Magazine correspondent recalls Euclid who ran a math school in Alexandria. When King Ptolemy asked for a shorter lesson, Euclid replied that there is no royal road to learning.
Barbara Hauer born December 3 1766 in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Educated in Baltimore. Married John C Fritchie of Frederick Maryland, a glove maker. Lived on West Patrick Street. Benevolent quiet fond of flowers well read. No children. Slave owners before the Civil War. Died 1862 and buried in the Reformed Church of Frederick Cemetery.
Long Called Eire Eire the name of Ireland was applied to the emerald isle 2 000 years ago It is pronounced Air a with the accent on the air Ireland is not quite as large as Maine Its greatest length is 306 miles The island s outline is an irregular oval not unlike the knobby potato which has been christened Irish The potato has been Ireland s adopted child.
Under an order of sale a Polk County Nebraska court will auction the northeast quarter of section 1 township 14 north range 3 west at the courthouse in Osceola on July 11 1938 at 2 p m the sale satisfies two judgments with liens first for 9363 14 and second for 4827 94 both with 10 percent interest and costs the sale is public and open at least one hour witnesses include sheriff Gunnard Peterson and attorneys Mills and Mills
The article explains hay fever as a seasonal disease caused by pollen from weeds, not grasses, with heavy and light pollen behaving differently. It notes pollen counts and laboratory counting, weed spread, and upcoming follow up facts, ending with a public bid notice for road surfacing in Nebraska.
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