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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1930
Page
5
Market notes show prices for cream eggs and livestock including wheat corn oats and hogs with figures 12 16 23 11 .63 65 8.00 recorded for reference. Strong emphasis on agricultural commodities and daily price points.
Osceola, Nebraska residents and visitors fill weekend with visits to Omaha and Hastings, farm work, social gatherings, and community events. Notable items include Ritter relatives, editor’s convention attendance, a missing brown leather pocket book, and a new rink and mini golf at the Country Club. Local clubs meet, healing treatments, and travel to Lake Ericson feature among weekend reports.
Helen Wiesely guests ofBetty Gleason at Havens. Mrs Hue Pettijohn and sons Max Rex weekend with sister Mrs Lester McCormick. Fern Dake returns to Omaha after three weeks vacation with parents. John McCormick of Town visiting relatives. brother of C C McCormick of Osceola. Mrs Gunnard Peterson and Mae host Mrs Will Dake and daughters Friday. Rev Maxey and wife with Mrs Dilmar Dunn and Mina Buchtamotored to Lincoln for a day. Lesta Mildred Mace visited Boone relatives. returned Saturday. Dale Buchta guest of grandmother in Silver Creek. Mrs Harve McCormick hosts dinner. guests C C McCormick Osceola Hue Pettijohn Lester McCormick family John McCormick of Iowa. Bettie Gleason guest of Soline barges. Rev and Mrs Maxey host reception for son James and his bride, married at Freemont. Newlyweds to live in Lincoln. Mr Mrs Geo Heinemeyer host supper with Tom Meacham. Sunday marks 35th wedding anniversary for Mr Mrs Wisely. picnic lunch, grove gathering, ice cream and cake. relatives present. Helen Deceter returns to Omaha after two weeks with relatives. Mr Mrs Lawrence Meacham Mr Mrs Guildford Bryan and son join Mrs Heinemeyer’s birthday celebration. Carol Buchta spends week with Mildred Mace. Will Lehr Will Melvin VanAlstine host Sunday at Will Cake home. Sam K Snyder threshes wheat first. more machines to thresh this week. Merritt Grahams of Clarks visits E E Finecy.
A collage of light advice and rustic humor from 1930 includes home improvement notions, budgeting for modernization, roof measurements, coal buying, and jokes about health, pets, driving, marriage, and stock wit. It mixes ads and social chatter with dated domestic wisdom.
A Rhodesia man awoke to find live fish raining on his property covering a tennis court. The nearest water is three miles away, suggesting a whirlwind lifted the fish in the night as the explanation for this bizarre meteorological episode.
List of recently purchased titles includes Beetle Prairie Women and Seven Iron Men. Authors featured cover fiction, history, travel, and science with titles from Buchan to Wharton and Tarkington to Mason.
The family thanks neighbors and friends for kindness shown during bereavement of Mrs. J F Farris and family express gratitude for support and sympathy.
A brief Albany Evening News item notes Solomon’s luck with no bargain sales that day, prompting readers to ponder thrift and timing. The comment suggests a quiet day with no notable discounts or shopping frenzies to report.
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