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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
2
A sermon urges supreme devotion to Christ over works, urging believers to place love for Jesus above family or service. It warns against busy activity without intimate fellowship and stresses honesty, meekness, joy, and a Christlike character as marks of true loyalty.
The text expresses a personal pledge to faith in Christ. It affirms loyalty obedience submission to Christ's will and willingness to bear spiritual discipline and the cross laid upon the believer. It reflects a devotional creed in concise religious language.
Reverend Wharton urges that blessedness equals knowing the joyful sound of the gospel not worldly success. He contrasts secular gains with spiritual blessing, stressing the gospel must touch the heart. He asks listeners to proclaim Christ to the world.
Strong admonition on restraint honesty and faith urging individual conviction over persuasion. Warns that life without restraint leads to wreck and that self advertising honesty is often for sale. Encourages forsaking apparent goods in loyalty to faith.
Farmers are advised to plant corn after the first week of June with careful cultivation. Early plowing helps weed control before planting, while late corn risks drought damage. Cultivate after each rain to conserve moisture and thin crowded stalks to avoid internal competition for resources.
The article explains streaking or mottling in butter may come from salt or overworking. Salt diffuses uniformly, with grains surrounded by brine, so avoid overworking before adding salt. Remove most milk in the first working, leave enough water to dissolve salt within twelve hours before the next working.
Farmers' Breeze discusses how to manage crop stands by thinning stalks to two per hill and stresses the new weights and measures law. It urges home scales for accuracy in grain and stock dealings and warns dealers about short weights with potential fines. It also notes plentiful rainfall for June may reduce thinning needs.
Ontario Experiment Farm tests show torula yeast causes bitterness in milk and cheese. Experiments with sterilized milk and cheese yield bitter taste when torula cultures are added. Bitter notes appear in mixed milk, can wash solutions, and on tree leaves under stored cans. Remedies: cool milk promptly and sterilize all cans and utensils. Connecticut station previously linked bacteria to bitter milk and cream and found sterilization harmless.
A historicFarm and Home note describes a method to cross barbed wire fences using two nailed boards 10 to 12 inches wide and two feet longer than the fence height. Four cleats per board with a connecting short board aid ascent. A second, more elaborate double-step device is shown, easy for women and children but harder over a narrow board.
The new University of Wisconsin catalog lists eighty seven courses in long and middle division agriculture. It notes this tally excludes work in nine other departments such as home economics short course dairy and farmers’ institutes.
A purported home remedy suggests pouring buttermilk along sheep backs to cure ticks. Adding a gill of kerosene per gallon of buttermilk is claimed to improve the emulsion and harm none. It is also claimed buttermilk given to a horse may surpass other remedies for bats. The makers say the remedy is inexpensive and worth trial as an experiment.
Instructions describe testing well air by lighting a candle or lantern. If the flame dims or goes out, ignite turpentine and sawdust or kerosene and rags in a kettle and lower it to the water surface to vent gas. Then pour water into the well from above and retest with the lantern to check improvement.
For years Southwest sheepmen faced heavy losses from pingue a disease among Mexican herders. It is linked to a plant known as the rubber plant or rubber tree and appears to be caused by ingestion of its leaves or roots. Hot water and salt prove an effective remedy.
The article extols the bumble bee as a farmer friendly insect aiding clover bloom fertilization. It urges knowledge of both useful and destructive insects to show farmers have as many beneficial insect friends as pests.
A Bohemian practice uses mrashin to coat hams and other meats, eggs and more. The pliable tasteless substance preserves freshness almost indefinitely and peels off easily like banana skin.
To pack butter, prepare a brine of two pounds of salt in two gallons of cold water. Wrap each roll of butter in cloth, pack in a jar until full, and pour the brine over the butter. Place an inverted plate with weight on top to keep butter fully submerged.
The sixth Glidden reliability run began at the Hotel Pontchartrain with 30 cars marching toward Chicago and beyond as Dai H. Lewis led the start. Detours and washouts delayed rail travel in Kansas City with trains east and west affected and several routes rerouted via Missouri and Illinois lines.
A Nebraska Roundup lists a Fourth of July horse with lockjaw, a Sutton Carnegie library funding dispute, Sutton district school grounds, Burgess family death from consumption, a Beatrice horse accident, several arrests and releases in Auburn, Hastings and McCook social notes, a Beatrice gas franchise change, a large Burlington picnic in McCook, Berlin accident Christ Meyer, Guide Rock injuries, Hastings sewer expansion, and a long-married couple filing for divorce in Hastings with early Adams county roots.
The Roosevelt expedition arrives at Captain Attenborough's farm on Lake Naivasha after five weeks in Souik district. CH J Cun ninghame guides Roosevelt and son to the farm to bag hippos and antelope then join Lord Delamere near Njoro for ten days of hunting while other members stay at the Naivasha camp.
Afton New Mexico report says ten Texas horse buyers driving 300 cattle into Texas were attacked by outlaws near Afton. Nine were killed. one escaped wounded to reach Afton and report the massacre.
County officials report two complaints against William Scott of Andrew county Missouri for the murder of Night Policeman Ben Stump in the Missouri Pacific yards on July 19 1899. Scott is believed to be the man Sheriff Fenton arrested at Salem for horse stealing and was turned over to the U.S. marshal to await a preliminary trial in Lincoln for complicity with the Maybray gang. Descriptions match the fugitive seen fleeing the murder scene.
A severe hurricane struck Panama causing property damage and cutting the electric plant. The city lost power while Maria Guerrero, a famed Spanish actress, performed at the national theater and the audience stayed silent after the show. Telegraph service was disrupted and reports are sparse on the overall damage.
In Honolulu the Japanese workers at the Waimanalo plantation resume duties after a strike and a demonstration against County Sheriff Jarrett. He had arrested five leaders and withdrew most of the extra police once the situation stabilized.
In Council Bluffs Iowa fifty four saloonkeepers with permits under the Moon law face a dispute over when the law took effect April fifteen rather than July four. If April fifteenth is the date the law becomes effective many saloons could be barred from operation for five years and more than twenty five may be forced to close.
A head on crash near Cisco Utah between Denver and Rio Grande trains killed three crewmen and fatally injured a fourth, tied up traffic for over twelve hours. Elks bound for Los Angeles were aboard. freight crews escaped. No passengers were hurt.
Ed Pospisil of Chicago was freed by Governor Shallenberger after a pursuit to Omaha on charges of abandoning his wife and eloping with another woman. He will not return to Chicago for prosecution and has returned to his barber shop and home at 1251 South Thirteenth Street where Ida Steydinger and her seven month old baby reside.
Des Moines reports more than 4,000 Western Union telegraph poles damaged across Iowa by recent storms and floods. Superintendent Leon W. Ainsworth cites total pole and equipment losses at 280000. Over 700 workers are daily restoring service statewide.
In St Joseph County Kalamazoo report a Chicago woman Miss Mamie Davey aged 22 visiting Klinger Lake near Sturgis with farmer Claude Hunt reportedly drowns during a boating outing. Hunt is feared dead as search continues.
Alberto Gordon, a herder for Ross Lambert, was found shot through the heart and arm beside a burned sheep wagon in Edgemont South Dakota. The body lay 2590 yards from the wagon. Authorities suspect raiders set the fire and killed the stranger to hide evidence.
W A Selleck president of the Lincoln Commercial Club delivered the principal address at the cornerstone ceremony. The body of Perry Jerman of Beatrice, drowned near Rawlins, Wyoming last September, has been found. He was 22 and survived by a widow. the remains will be interred at Rawlins.
A barn on Geo. Callette’s farm near Pickrell burned with hay and grain inside. Two horses died and two were badly burned. Loss about $1,200, partially insured. Origin of the fire unknown. Tramps are numerous at Paul station six miles south of Nebraska City. eighteen able bodied men on the platform refused work despite offers of good wages.
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