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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1880
Page
6
A man hid in a Kansas City freight car to steal a ride to St Louis. He reached his destination but must undergo weeks of hospital treatment after a five day journey without food and being locked inside the car.
A blaze started by a loose blazine steamboat on the Hudson river near Troy, N Y, endangering properties on both banks. Fire engines chased the flames for hours and finally contained the conflagration after an exciting pursuit downstream with teams kept hitched. The mint plans a trial of new compromise metals with 400 samples of stella, the metric silver dollar, and goloid dollar coined for evaluation from Dr Hubbel's reform concept per Alexander H Stephens.
James Carew, the British agricultural writer, argues that English farmers cannot prosper while land sales remain complex and costly. He calls for breaking up large, encumbered estates into many small properties and suggests abandoning unequal wheat competition with America. He favors producing durable, storable goods such as milk, fresh butter, early wheat, vegetables, hay, straw, potatoes, sugar beets.
In North Carolina two grave robbers disturbed a widow who had died and was buried with a gold watch and ring. The coffin lid opened and the woman awoke, sat up, and urged the men to take her home. Her husband fainted, mistaking her for a ghost, but she is recovering and may return the items.
A Boston invention introduces a word ladder puzzle where two equal length words are connected by single letter changes. Each intermediate must be a valid English word, progressing until the target word is reached with a sequence like East to west or Boot to shoe.
Miss Norwood, from the American mission at Swatow, describes foot binding in China as a local practice tied to cultural tradition. In Swatow, about 60 percent of women at mission schools have bound feet with painful bands. some even tighten bands themselves despite the agony, though the Hakkas oppose the custom and it often causes blindness.
The Ruhla region in Thuringia is described as a major center for tobacco pipe production. Annual output includes about 640,000 genuine meerschaum bowls, 5,400,000 imitation bowls, and nearly 5,000,000 wooden pipe heads. Porcelain bowls total 9,600,000 yearly, with 3,700,000 clay or lava bowls. Pipe stems reach 15,000,000 annually, plus 1,600,000 dozen miscellaneous adjuncts.
The record lists 12,000,000 dozen pipe cases 800,000 dozen mouthpieces and cigar holders made of amber horn meerschaum wood or cocoanut shell and 15 000 000 complete pipes of various materials in a display or catalog.
Yale College splits classes into four divisions and surveys Junior class tobacco use. In the lowest division of 26 students, four smoked. in the third of 27, twenty smoked. in the second of 37, eighteen smoked. in the first of 40, ten smoked. The article notes unclear cause and observes limited impact on German scholarship.
The article traces Tirverroon Eng as a newly created city with a bishopric. It notes Liverpools rapid rise from a decayed town of 4 000 to 12 000 in the early nineteenth century and its ongoing prosperity. It explains the name Liver pool from a bird named a liver dwelling by a Mersey pool and its depiction on the seal from six centuries ago. Naturalists identify the liver with the blue duck found in the Ribble.
The article argues that pure Newfoundland stock is nearly extinct in its native land and replaced by shabby mongrels due to neglect and overwork. It notes a proposed shift to the Leonberg dog, developed by Count Esseg of Leonberg Württemberg, as an improved alternative with growing success.
Mr Redpath notes widespread sorrow in famine years among Irish families. He describes sad cabins and quiet children, except in a charitable home where few happy faces appear. He condemns landlords who skim relief funds while rents total large sums.
The piece argues that aging deafness serves a wise purpose by easing the mind in decline. It claims gradual loss of senses quiets worldly concerns and aids longing for a purer state, framing infirmity as providential and benevolent.
A Pomeranian lieutenant of landwehr cavalry and a Silesian student, both large in size, entered Landvegt's in Berlin in March. They ordered Pilzener and Munchener beer and allegedly disposed of the foam with a cow-swallow method. After about three hours and a half, the bill was found unpaid.
A jovial report notes that a lieutenant absorbed sixty seven pints of beer while a Silesian companion managed fifty four pints. The tale highlights excessive drinking and competitive drinking culture among soldiers.
Nebraska brief mentions Sheldon getting a bank, license revocation of a saloon, a daily mail route to Minden, and county agricultural plans. It reports crop losses from dry weather, a Swede shipment to Bloomington, church construction hopes, an Indian burial ground desecration, name changes and several local incidents from Tecumseh to Wayne and Burt counties.
Rev T B Lemon writes from the St. Louis Central Christian Advocate praising Nebraska immigration and frontier settlement. He notes rich, cheap land in western counties, rail lines expanding, and large land sales by Union Pacific and B M railroad agents fueling new communities and church opportunities across thirty counties and 50 000 square miles. The Omaha Board of Trade reports unprecedented state commerce growth.
A concise, period tone examination of the Republican and Democratic paths toward the 1880 presidential nominating contests. The piece weighs Grant Blaine Washburne Edmunds and Hancock as possible rivals for the GOP, while detailing Tilden’s grip on the Democratic scene, internal strife, and the party’s struggle to find a viable platform amid shifting national issues and a stable economy.
A collection of antiquated kitchen tips and recipe fragments. Instructions cover making hearty dishes with eggs milk flour and butter, preserving fruit, and preparing crusts and cheese pastries. Also included are methods for cleaning and renovating lace and fabrics with alcohol, potash washes, and drying rolls.
A Dr Murphy proclaims Minnesota climate makes him healthier and heavier from 97 to 275 pounds. A son of the late Bishop Willoughby counters with his own claim of weight from six to 175 pounds, prompting the doctor to depart.
The Salt Lake News notes five thousand dollars worth of oil is used annually in the endowment houses awaiting polygamous marriages. The Salt Lake Tribune calls these houses the grease vats of Zion. The anointing is described as the church rite in the marriage ceremony.
Loddon letter argues England's Sunday observance constrains sin and sustains religion. He contrasts London's quiet Sabbaths with continental cities, cites church attendance, and asserts a link between the Lord's Day and national prosperity, citing Voltaire on Sunday.
A man intoxicated visited a Justice court asking to quit drinking. The judge staged a mock bet on his success, then ordered ten days in the county jail after a drunken plea. Constable, return the prisoner. Reporter, note the wealth.
An Irish county tale of nine maidens who bake in a garden, a young prince on an imperial mission questions where the fox has gone, and a granddaughter of a Marquis becomes the center of a village romance amid modern progress and gossip.
A committee of the Magistrates of Kent concludes an inquiry is needed into the scientific adulteration of beer. They believe that brewing beer purely from malt and hops would reduce intoxication.
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