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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
5
Osceola residents and visitors flocked to Memorial Day activities and en route travel. Local families hosted relatives from David City Lincoln Omaha Stromsburg and Columbus while merchants noted livestock shipments and farm fuel buying. Annotations include church notices and a Lutheran gathering preview for June events.
A tibetan account notes that in tibet at least one son per family joins the church. The move blends spiritual motive with desire to secure monasteries protection and the overarching power they wield in the region.
The Public Service Co. proposes an artificial ice plant in Osceola to operate with a steam plant, a plan favored by the City Council to speed up municipal ice access and ensure continued steam service. Local residents and officials, including Rev W W Alverson, and several area residents are noted in today’s social and civic items.
A neighbor, tired after a long day, says she will attend a show for recreation. Her 3 year old daughter quips that she wants to go “just to get in,” illustrating a playful family moment.
The record catalogs six shell kinds used in Araneta value items. It names the gold lip pearl mother of pearl window shell tractus green snail black tip pearl and tortoise shell as varieties.
Small balloons are sent aloft twice to measure wind directions across stations in the United States. The effort aims to map air currents for guiding aviators.
A Chicago Tribune anecdote recalls two boys boarding a street car when fares were five and eight cents. The seven year old, promised two cents change from a dime, handed it to the conductor and declared politly that he is worth only 38 cents while awaiting the pennies.
Mr and Mrs Whig Austin of Chicago visited Shelby this week, former Polk County residents. They travelled via St Joe to see their son and enjoyed reconnecting with old neighbors and friends. Mr Austin once ran for Polk County Treasurer and engaged in local politics.
About half of rough diamonds are cut into gems and lose roughly 60 percent of their weight in finishing. Diamonds are nearly indestructible and the first mined may still exist. Factoring disasters could remove at least 1,000,000 carats, leaving 46,355,474 carats of cut and polished diamonds.
A jug of Jamaican rum, left at a Pennsylvania farmhouse by British officers in 1778, became part of the Wistar Institute collection at the University of Pennsylvania. When the building opened in 1892 the contents were tasted and sealed, to remain closed until the centenary in 1992.
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