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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1881
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR shows railway timetable items including arrival and departure notes. Mentions Arniver Pay, Lanves, and Strasusburg with tentative times and routes. The legible portions hint at a directory style public notice for railroad operations and station times.
Local items report church services at Shelby and Osceola, farm notes on wheat and orchards, and civic events. Mentions citizens like J. Weeber IL Mesere Kyle and Loring, plus business items at Matthews Thompson's and the Stromsburg Bank. Internal church notices, health cautions, and school events round out the county briefs.
John M. Davis wed Alta Stewart and Albert P. Davis wed Laurie E. Stewart on July 13 at the brides' parents residence with Rev. R G Adams officiating. The ceremony drew many relatives and friends who enjoyed the occasion.
U. P. BR. R. Co. transfers to Olaf S. Anderson NE 9-13-3 C. P. valued at $800. U. S. transfers to Robert Rives W 3 8 WW 4 30-15-1 Patent. U. S. transfers to John Patterson 34 5 4 34-14 1 Patent.
A small light red cow with a white face and lined back, one horn broken, is missing. A reward is offered to anyone who returns the cow to Osceola owner O. H. Puryme.
A seller offers many sulky rakes at low cash prices. Some rakes may be available on time.
Notice announces C M Bazaars offering a bargain for trading an organ in Osceola with C W Kyle backing on personal and chattel security. It also notes C M Purver Jobo H Anderson Shelby Polk County as agents for J I Case threshing machines and an Osceola blacksmith shop due to start July 7.
For sale at a bargain the southeast quarter of Section 33 in Town 16 N Range 1 W. For particulars apply to Bittenbender and VanWinter, Osceola, Nebraska. 31 ¢f.
An advertisement promotes a life saving medicine, described as the most successful diarrhea dysentery and cholera remedy in the South and West, offered for sale by J. H. Abbott and F. R. Schouler in Osceola.
Several of the most valuable improved farms in Polk County also business houses private dwellings a first class hotel property and more offered. Also a new Pitts and Son threshers and separator 10 horse power all complete.
The readable text mentions quantities of a substance and a dubious supplier but contains many garbled terms and nonsensical phrases making specific facts impossible to verify. No identifiable persons organizations or places are present to anchor a factual summary.
An 1830 testimonial style advertisement proclaims Mrs A. by Kingon's Hair Restorative a purely vegetable remedy that nourishes hair roots and cures baldness. It claims universal success when used as directed, with endorsements from J. M. Kinyon and G W Kinyon, and notes from H M Mila M D and C H Davis of Osceola Nob. A Colorado justice of the peace certifies sworn testimonials.
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