Walter J. Herbes Editor and Publisher
Osceola Nebraska notices record Walter J Herbes serving as editor and publisher with post office entry dated March 3, 1879.
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1935
Page
4
Osceola Nebraska notices record Walter J Herbes serving as editor and publisher with post office entry dated March 3, 1879.
Paul Cunningham reports a runaway incident near Hackberry where Frank New comer’s plowing team pulled away with a disk cultivator still attached, causing $4.75 in repairs. County treasurer book checks by C A McCloud found the accounts in good order after eighteen months. A heavy rainfall of 1.35 inches soaked the area. Local clubs played a baseball game with Clarks and Osceola. Several residents pursued catfish but returned empty. A camping party headed for a multi day outing, and William Crisp prepared to move into a renovated Richards property near the depot.
County clerk filings through Saturday night list Representative Richard Dahle from Pleasant Home as the Republican candidate and H as County Attorney.
Beebe Osceola voters consider Gilbert Johnson for commissioner. Mrs. A F Nuquist returns from a two month visit to Ohio New York and New Jersey and praises Osceola’s new post office. A near drowning at Scholz lake ends with Marion Shaw saving Lyle Baird. Tanner and Schram stock sold to J A Albin and J A Jackson. Swedish arrivals Oberg family plan to settle in town with blacksmithing work by Ole Arthur Oberg and Rudolph Gissler.
Polk county is certified as a modified tuberculosis accredited area by state and federal authorities marking it the second Nebraska county to receive the status. The decision follows cattle tuberculin testing and removal of infected stock and takes effect immediately. Dr C L LeMar and Mrs George Craven led Camp Fire Girls from Osceola to Camp Sheldon near Columbus for a ten day camping trip with 16 cottages full of eight girls each. Names include Kathleen Albin Avis Beatty Dorothy Clark Mildred Craven and Carol LeMar. Other visitors include Mr and Mrs Webster Mills and Marian from Omaha John Revell returning from the West Indies to spend a few days here and S P Johnson hosting visit from Kansas City. Si’s twin brother recently married and is on honeymoon. M Dalbey and Al Grossnicklaus head to Minnesota for a month of fishing and sightseeing.
Silverstrand traveled to Omaha for eye treatment Monday morning. Rain fell a half inch or more overnight, easing moisture needs for corn. East of Osceola hail shattered growing corn. Swede Home received a good shower while south of Osceola and north of Stromsburg rainfall varied. Threshing paused north of the city as corn benefited from the moisture.
A collection of aphorisms on pity, adaptation, leadership, vanity, gossip, honesty, and daily life. The sayings critique self awareness, social behavior, and cultural observations with pointed humor and concise moral reflections.
Scholars debate the swastika origin arguing it began as a decorative lotus motif or talisman. Some see four feet marking compass points or a sacred fire flame, sun, or lightning. Smithsonian curator calls it prehistoric earliest form of the cross with Sans krit name long before it had a name.
Garden insects greatly assist cultivation by preying on pests. Ladybird beetles feed on plant lice and scale. fiery ground beetle and its grub the cut worm lion combat cut worms. Harpalus beetle and lace wings also help, along with other parasitic flies, in protecting plants.
Cosmopolitan portrays the White House detail as vigilant yet seemingly at leisure. Agents, though constrained by rules, effectively control access and dictate what may pass through the President’s spaces, making him a trapped bird in a gilded cage.
The New York Sun notes men sneer at women's vanity yet frequently check their own appearance in mirrors. Alone they approve of their reflection, but in company they adjust cravats and touch faces as if scrutinizing a shaving cut, implying women may be more honest about vanity.
Mt Wilson Observatory studies reveal space between stars is not a perfect vacuum. The region contains about one atom per cubic inch, meaning a single water drop with around one trillion atoms could fill three and three quarter million cubic miles at that density.
Dry ice or dry snow is a solid form of carbon dioxidelaunched as a powerful refrigerant with a freezing strength of twenty pounds of ice per one pound and a temperature of 109 degrees below water.
In Philadelphia there are upward of 126 practicing women physicians. Women doctors are represented on the faculties of several of the largest hospitals, women technicians are doing most of the routine and even some of the highly specialized work in laboratories and research institutes.
The text ranks languages by speakers noting Chinese at about 400 million, followed by English with at least 160 million native speakers and 60 million as understood non-natives, and Russian at about 140 million. It also notes English is spread across more countries than any other language.
In a gallery note, Aunt Sarah objects to a Miller painting titled Angelus, claiming the artist copied a calendar that has hung in their kitchen for over a decade. The exchange reveals memories tied to the piece and the calendar.
Three circus elephants attempted to enter a Cheltenham seed store. One elephant forced its way inside and sampled seed potatoes dog biscuits meal and other delicacies. A second elephant became stuck in the doorway until keepers guided them away.
Cactus Joe explains town rules for suspicious strangers to keep moving and leave town quickly, reflecting a frontier attitude toward danger and speed in daily life.
A terse, metaphorical line contrasts a man sinking with the idea his sins haunt him. A quip about time for rescue follows, implying at least some chance of salvation or consequence during danger.
A London Metropolitan police sergeant known as KE Tucker leads inventive work at Scotland Yard. His tests include a dual function truncheon torch, a periscopic bicycle lamp, and an anti skid device that showers sand to aid motorists in a skid.
Scientists undertake preservation of the last standing totem poles in coastal Indian villages of British Columbia and Alaska. Poles, grave monuments, and carved relics are treated with oil and paint to endure for years, with government experts preserving numerous examples across the region. The tallest remaining poles reach up to 65 feet, including a Jasper Alberta totem transplanted from the Queen Charlotte Islands.
A botanist in Tit Bits notes seaweed trunks 18 inches thick with treelike branches in the Antarctic. Dr. Beebe glimpsed a submerged forest off Chile in his bathysphere. Some stalks reach 600 feet, vastly taller than trees. Drifting masses misidentified as islands by voyagers. surface weight estimated at 20,000 tons with 54,000,000 tons below.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a waiter tells a customer the trout is long in coming, and the waiter jokes that it has taken a long while to get it off the hook. The light ribbing captures a bustling dining room scene.
Marie fretted her engagement ring would be overlooked until three girls immediately recognized it.
A light dialogue shows a worried person hearing from a doctor that constant worry must end. The observer notes the medical counsel as a turning point toward calmer daily life.
The note suggests contention on financing and influence with Fisherbein and Tishbein cited in a Pathfinder discussion. It frames money as a central, audible force in decision making.
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