Osceola News Highlights Local Travel and Notices
Local items describe gatherings and plans around Osceola including picnics at Prairie Creek with about 65 residents, reports of social visits and family movements, a suicide in the area, and upcoming events such as a State Superintendent talk in Osceola. Mentions of Gov. McCoy's mother’s death, sales notices, and medical updates appear alongside community notices and business ads.
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Osceola
Prairie Creek
Beggs Tropical Oil Promises Health Benefits
An advertisement touts Beggs Tropical Oil as the only finiment with a positive guarantee to meet all label claims. It highlights strong curative powers for deep seated ailments like rheumatism and neuralgia and notes D. H. Kunkel keeps it.
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D. H. Kunkel
Big Republican Picnic at Stromsburg Aug 1
August 1 will host the biggest day of the season the big republican picnic and rally in Stromsburg. Hon John L Webster and Congressman Hainer lead principal orations with Jack MacColl Ole Hedlund and other state candidates expected. It is an all day event with Stromsburg able to accommodate fifteen thousand. attendees urged to come and stay all day.
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W. J. Conklyn
Lincoln
Mies Rose Hartman
Omaha
E. L. King
R. G. Harr
York
G. T. Ray & Co
D. H Kunkel
Harry Holton
Beebe
Ole Hedlund
Stroms
Osceola Organizes McKinley Club For Active Campaign
Republicans of Osceola precinct formed a McKinley Club led by H. J Bonner as president and committees arranged a campaign. A big wagon will head a procession to Stromsburg with marchers to assemble in Osceola at 8 30 to join the parade.
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Osceola
McKinley Club
H. J Bonner
H. W. Kennard
L. J. Garinger
Sect
S. G. Pheasant
Treas
Stromsburg
Mrs G W Gregg Dies After Illness In County
Mrs G W Gregg died at home yesterday afternoon after a long illness of pneumonia She and her husband have long resided in the county and she was widely known The funeral will be held at the M E church tomorrow at 2 p m conducted by Reverends Whitmer and Adams An extended notice will follow next week
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G. W. Gregg
Old Soldiers' Picnic at Benson's Grove
The Old Soldiers' Picnic is set for August 8 1896 in J W Benson's grove nine miles north west of Osceola and five miles southeast of Silver Creek. Noted speakers include Rev Mrs Perkins of Hastings who speaks on war. Ice cream lemonade coffee and hard tack will be served by veterans.
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J. W. Benson
Osceola
Silver Creek
Mrs. Perkins
Hastings
W. A.C
Ellsworth G. A. Ri
Pleasant Grove Clippings: Rain, Fishing, Visits
In Pleasant Grove reports show rain relief after heat. Aaron Anderson and Edwin fished Davis Creek and caught 21 catfish. Mrs. Swan Parsons returned home from a three week valley visit. Graosshoppers were seen northward. Miss Amelia Hernbloom hosted friends Emma and Dena Samuelson from Stromsburg. B Y P A Swedish Baptist church members picnicked at Surprise with eight youths.
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Aaron Anderson
Edwin
Davis Creek
Swan Parsons
Amelia Hernbloom
Emma and
Dena Samuelson
Stromsburg
Births, marriages, and local incidents tally in July notes
The column reports a baby girl born July 14 to C. S. Easton and wife, a twin girls arrival for George Wood and wife, and several illnesses including erysipelas. It notes a July 28 marriage of Pauline Micek to John Staffer, a lost horse of A. J. Powell, and a noisy neighborhood charivari thwarted by a gun salute from Mrs. Micek’s widow. The Epworth League plans an August 10 literary event. Ben Rogers tours on vacation and won't preach until September.
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Epworth League
Ben. Rogers
Ring imagery in political verse from 1895 newspaper
A poem from October 10 1895 contrasts many rings with the court house ring urging vote for Bryan. It satirizes political power and the “ring” as control in law and politics, touching on marriage, rubber rings, and coercive pressure. The piece culminates with rebellious doubt and social critique.
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Bryan
Court House
Bryan Uryou
Homecoming at Odceola stirs old party loyalties
The piece describes a homecoming at Odceola where populists return to the Democratic fold, while some stick with Republican roots. It frames St Louis leaders guiding the herd into Democratic pasture amid mixed reactions, with branding imagery and references to gold and paper money debates.
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Odceola
St. Louis
Mother and Daughter Lessons on Responsibility
A reflection from Mrs. Lyman Abbott in August Ladies' Home Journal urges mothers to model and instill responsibility in daughters. Start with small tasks, such as caring for a plant, to build system, neatness, and regularity under a wise mother's guidance.
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Lyman Abbott
Ladies’ Home Journal
Treasury payments since 1879 demand gold for greenbacks
Since 1879 the treasury has paid gold for greenbacks when demanded and redeemed notes under the Sherman Act in gold. Secretaries argued silver would not preserve parity, insisting redemption could not force a coin choice that would destroy gold silver parity.
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Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Copper Bug Arguments Outshine Silver In Coin Debate
The Chicago Times Herald argues that free copper money would outdo free silver, claiming copper has long served as money and could deliver greater benefits if backed by government stamp. It urges readers to await the leather dollar advocate's full answer.
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Chicago Times Herald
Plenty of Bimetallism Now in the United States
The piece asserts bimetallism is fully present in the United States with gold or silver available at fixed rates. It notes that coins and redeemable notes including greenbacks treasury notes and national bank notes offer citizens access to either metal or paper money as preferred.
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Treasury
United States
Harrison
Ladies’ Home Journal
National Bank
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