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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
8
Montserrat in Catalonia holds a famed Benedictine monastery perched 3000 feet above foothills 35 miles from Barcelona. The Black Virgin shrine draws thousands yearly, with legends linking Saint Luke and Saint Peter to the statue and Ignatius of Loyola to Montserrat’s historic site.
The article traces beans from ancient Egyptian priests who deemed them unclean to modern acceptance. It notes Bronze Age cultivation in Europe, early wild varieties near the Caspian and North Africa, and identifies main bean types including Vicia faba broad bean Phaseolus vulgaris kidney bean scarlet runner and lima. It emphasizes beans as nutritious and valuable in diets today.
The Guelph Treasure a collection of portable altars crosses tablets monstrances and reliquaries is linked to the Brunswick Guelph royal line and their predecessors the Brunsnij by an authority in the Cleveland Plain Dealer The catalog edited by Otto Van Falke Robert Schmidt and George Swarzenski calls it a unique final witness to medieval religion and art in a mighty German lineage.
James McGill, born in Glasgow in 1744, settled in Canada about 1770 to profit from fur trade in Montreal. He became a Parliament member and militia brigadier in the War of 1812, dying in 1813 leaving 12 thousand pounds and lands to fund a college. The college founded in 1821 and received a royal charter as McGill University.
A description of large wild animal trading areas near Hamburg and Marseilles. It notes the Wild Beast Mart beside Hamburg, with Abyssian lions Soviet bears and tigers from Dalat on Rue Jardin or Rue Monte Cristo. Chartreux road features shops selling birds from Africa Asia and South America.
Swiss museums house artifacts from Burgundian Celtic Roman and Alemannic eras. The story of modern Switzerland unfolds in Zurich Berne Geneva Schwyz Lucerne and Baden museums, showcasing diverse regional pasts.
Medieval alchemists faced social stigma and church state opposition. Noted figures like Bacon and Aquinas kept studies secret amid bans and expulsions. A gilded gallows once built for alchemists symbolized their marginal status while jargon and coded terms masked their work.
A Chicago Tribune writer states the aurora borealis does not originate from the north or south poles. Instead auroral activity centers align with the earth's magnetic poles in northern Canada and Antarctica, with greatest displays in belts around them. Magnetic storms intensify displays as compass needles fluctuate, and spectroscopic analysis shows air gas emissions.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes that leprosy was first recognized in the United States in Louisiana, linked to the slave trade from the West Indies. It cites Louisiana as the origin site for many early cases, with California and Florida following. The piece explains warm, moist tropic regions foster the disease’s spread due to lush plant and animal life and heavy rainfall.
In Answers Magazine a London writer notes the dodo, a large ground bird of Mauritius. It had a big beak and tiny wings so it could not fly, making it slow and easy prey to hunters. By the late seventeenth century it was exterminated, aided by pigs that ate its eggs.
Japanese newspapers once depicted England's king thrown from his horse, illustrating with a barrel-shaped nursery horse and three soldiers pushing behind while remarking with scurrilous captions. The piece contrasts general Japanese respect for royalty with disdain when it concerns foreign monarchs.
A palmist explains hand mounts and lines, detailing mounts of Venus Moon Mars Mercury Sun Saturn and Jupiter and their link to love courage imagination intellect and leadership. It lists seven key lines including life head fate heart health success and marriage.
The piece notes titanium as one of the seven most abundant metals in the earth’s crust. It ranks with aluminum iron magnesium and calcium potassium and others, claiming vast quantities but uneven ore distribution. It traces discovery to 1789 by Rev William Gregor and Klaproth who named it after the Titans.
In Valais regions the Val d Herens herd cows stage a spring contest led by a queen. Up to twelve fighting cows enter the ring for a grand battle after a special pre fight diet while owners and spectators from across Switzerland watch the spectacle. Any weaker quitter is promptly removed.
The Circus Maximus seating formed a crescent around one end with tiers running along the course. The opposite end was straight and perpendicular, making the whole resemble a half ellipse. A fence separated the return and starting courses, while stalls at the straight end held chariots and horses ready.
The Gaelic phrase Erin go Bragh means Treland Forever and the flag features an Irish harp and shamrock emblem. The shamrock’s three leaves symbolize the first second and third persons of the Blessed Trinity, with the shamrock itself representing the Trinity.
Polk County Nebraska set a public hearing on its annual budget for 1938. Finance committee prepared the document detailing general fund road fund bridge fund relief mothers pension county bond and linking fund and Polk County fair. Hearing scheduled for June 6 1938 at 9 am in the Commissioners Room Osceola Nebraska.
In the matter of Eva B. Smith deceased a petition seeks appointment of Clara J. Horst as Administratrix hearing set for June 10 1938 at 10 am County Judge L M Merrick seals notice dated May 16 1938 with publication May 19 26 June 2
Public auction to satisfy foreclosure judgment from Home Owners' Loan Corporation against Harry E Snider et al. at Osceola Courthouse at 2 PM July 5 1938. Lands Lot 10 and 11 Block 1 Van Vorces Addition Shelby Nebraska described. Dated June 1 1938. Sheriff Gunnard Peterson lists dates June 2 9 16 23 30.
Sealed bids are due June 21 at 2 00 P M at the Polk County Clerk Osceola Nebraska for 4500 yards Class A Test 70 road gravel placed on a 15 mile section from sections 23 24 to 35 36 Township 13 Range 2 with gas and truck drivers from the WPA list. A 500 bid bond and 100 bond on award required. The board may reject any bids.
In Polk County Nebraska the sheriff will sell the NW quarter of section 9 township 14 north range 1 west at 2 pm June 6 1938 in Osceola to satisfy a $4932.11 debt plus 10 percent interest from a May 21 1934 decree in district court case 2719 Samuel Avery and May Avery vs Grace Thelen et al. Sheriff Gunnard Peterson. May 5 12 19 26 June 2.
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