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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
7
Poetic fragment set in Mindanao describes a distant shore where the giver lights of the heavens glow and the host nation is greeted in an alien land. The verse contemplates shared duty and memory across oceans during wartime.
In a midnight talk, a man reveals why his wife wears two wedding rings. Six years earlier at the Langley Mine in Derbyshire, three men faced a collapsed gallery and toxic air after a collapse. One man dies after promising his lover’s ring stay with the survivor, who later marries the sweetheart.
In a Provincetown account the 18 foot grampus trapped in the Blatchford weir net was fought by fishermen Blatchford Baker Raymond and Freeman. With an axe and a large hook they killed the whale after a half hour of struggle. David C. Smith bought the carcass and had it towed to shore.
The Comanche counting method stops at ten and then uses ten and one more up to nineteen. After nineteen, twenty is pronounced but counted as twenty and one more up to twenty-nine, then thirty begins the same pattern. Counting is the hardest part to learn and mastery comes with learning by oral tradition due to the lack of an alphabet.
The Japan Chronicle claims Corea invented movable type printing in 13824 years before Europe. It notes Korea also anticipated Europe with the mortar and the iron clad, both used with notable effect in the Japanese Corean war of 1992 98.
A Washington Star quip notes wealth’s link to happiness, contrasting a winner’s facial expression with a loser’s. The text also contains garbled lines about feeling tough days and progress by Modders, Lena.
A concise look at how persistent habits tend to overpower well meant resolutions. Psychological patterns and practical tips highlight why starting small and building consistency matters more than grand promises.
A humorous Youth's Companion tale recalls Mrs Brainerd's cherry stoner never used in August. Neighbors borrow and gossip about a speedy device for pitting cherries, while a visiting rector's hay fever disrupts a Sunday service.
A historical note on the introduction of umbrellas in Europe and America, tracing their early reception and gradual adoption around 1800, with remarks on Spanish Italian and French domestication and social reactions to umbrella use in London society. The piece then shifts to opal lore, detailing ancient beliefs about opals, their varieties, and supposed protective powers including cure for heartaches and association with October.
A survey of 1908 era observations notes shifts in population, industry, and policy. It cites declines in crime over fifty years, rising canned milk use in China, Japan's gun factory orders, and early railway and postal innovations, plus gender and education movements in Scotland and Philadelphia.
Dialog notes a mock engagement as Mr Nervy expresses delight at plans, Ness Pechis comments surprise, and a proposal is to come that very night, in a Philadelphia Press style exchange.
A dreamy musing about a fragrance that captures dusting earth after long drought and a heavy shower. The speaker asks if any scent has pleased more than that imagined aroma of rain-washed dust.
The piece contrasts British and French manners highlighting greeting customs and door opening norms. It notes that in England a man opens doors and older residents initiate calls, while in France bowing depends on the man’s recognition and strangers make first calls. It also comments on kinship being treated as accidental beyond immediate siblings.
The article traces corset history from ancient ces t us and zonas to medieval belts and sixteenth century fashions. It notes Norman leather girdles, later iron corsets, Catherine de Medici’s 13 inch waist demand, Henry XIV’s ban on wear except certain women, and the rise of specialized corset making by 1842 with fitters using whalebone and steel to shape figures.
The article explains sand augers, a dust whirl phenomenon observed during the Union Pacific era. It details how baby cyclones form in Lodge Pole Creek valley then grow into funnel clouds with lead colored vapor and sand dirt rising toward the earth. Lightning and huge flat disk hailstones form beneath the cloud.
A Kiplingesque meditation on camels as the ship of the desert. The Hedjaz Railway reaching Medina signals a future if not immediate decline for Bedouin camel proprietors. The piece notes the camel's quirks, dislikes red, hates man, and carries comforts for long journeys though the author finds camel meat unappealing.
A tobacconist notes that bad weather and bad tempers drive more customers to buy tobacco. He claims dismal weather makes men seek solace in smoking, increasing sales and profits. He says ill tempered customers purchase more and smoke faster than placid buyers.
A Philadelphia Press quip exchange notes that fortune favors some yet seems to follow others. The chronic kicker says luck follows certain men while the hustler argues fortune meets them, not follows. The remark ends with a reflection on vanity as a fault.
An affluent New York book collector stole rare volumes from libraries until suspicion grew. A lawyer posed as a southern collector, prompting him to reveal missing titles. After the thief’s death, heirs returned 125 books to rightful owners, a cautionary tale among bibliophiles.
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