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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
3
City Clerk Donovan selects Annie G Riley a 17 year old girl as Boston messenger the first female to hold the post after civil service commissioners could not supply a candidate.
Edward C. Delano is named the new Chicago public schools superintendent. He began forty four years ago as an assistant teacher and has spent his career advancing within the Board of Education to his current post.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference an Empress in her seventy fifth year with a May date, mentioning numbers and birth year 1526 and a line about magnetic starch and clothing. The legibility is limited. no clear event or location is found.
The fragmentary text references starch for summer skirts, crocheted slippers, hair care and beauty products, and a weight note about Lord Roberts. It reads like an OCR mishmash of old advertisements and notices with unclear dates or precise facts.
An old advertorial note touts Grain-O as a grain based coffee substitute priced at 15 and 25 cents per package. It claims grain-o is easy on delicate stomachs and beneficial for children while costing less than coffee. Mentions London cemeteries covering 2000 acres and a lingering note on seventeen year locusts.
Nebraska agents advertise Union Carbide calcium carbide for acetylene only, urging orders through Pacific Storage and Warehouse Co in Omaha. Also notes wood pulp paper for military clothing and Beeman's Pepsin Gum for dyspepsia, ending with a quip on creed and conversion.
Readers are advised to write T. M. Roberts' Supply House in Minneapolis Minnesota before purchasing binder twine. The advertise claim is backed by the firm’s reputation as thoroughly reliable and an offer is seen in another part of the paper.
Mothers are urged to examine every Castoria bottle for infants and children. The notice claims Castoria is a safe remedy and suggests using Magnetic Starch for longer lasting results. The message emphasizes focusing on one task at a time.
Advertisement claims Allen's Foot-Base powder makes tight or new shoes fit better. It purportedly cures swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. Sold by druggists and shoe stores 26c with free trial by mail Allen 8S Olmsted Le Roy NY.
Mail this notice to Sears BugBuck & Co Binder Twine Department Chicago with your required amount and desired delivery time to receive a quoted price that may beat your current supplier. Includes Sisal Standard and Manila twine options offered at lower rates.
Yonkers Statesman quotes a capstone line praising perseverance and naval morale with a nod to Admiral Dewey and the famed phrase Dont give up the ship. The note treats the maxim as enduring wisdom for leadership and resolve.
Coroner Knapp has received the complete chemical analysis of Charles Frost’s stomach but will not disclose findings. The first jury report cited an aconite bottle at the Frost home and three poisons found, including strychnine, amid questions of possible rat poison usage and fraud by Mrs. Frost who claims the aconite was for chilblains. The jury plans to reconvene after absent jurors return and issue a verdict.
Lincoln June 2 An answer filed in the Nebraska supreme court by Union Pacific attorneys in the $500000 maximum freight law case. The company argues lack of original jurisdiction and states it is Utah incorporated thus not subject to Nebraska law. It also claims no conviction under the law exists to date and denies court authority to hear the petition.
After Memorial Day observances at the cemetery a team from Dr Beede pulled loose on a rack and crashed into a buggy carrying the Townsend family near railway tracks. Mrs Townsend escaped with minor injuries while Mr Townsend suffered a severe head bruise and other family members were hurt.
South Omaha Neb June 2 The month just closed saw the largest livestock receipts in the yard’s history. May totals included 82 500 cattle 245 000 hogs and 72 600 sheep. Compared with May 1899 68 300 cattle 220 000 hogs and 72 000 sheep show increases of 14 200 cattle 25 000 hogs and 600 sheep. Shippers receive top notch prices as business steadily rises.
Long Pine Nebraska reports Mrs C H Weeks was sent to the Norfolk insane asylum this morning after she adopted a magnetic treatment last August. She believed she was Christ and commanded people, though they failed to heed her claims.
A storm in O'Neill Nebraska brought strong winds and heavy rain with minimal structural damage to sheds. The rain is welcomed for Holt county crops. Farmer W A St Clair of Gross Boyd county was struck by lightning near midnight, killing him and one of his horses.
South Omaha Neb June 2 The Hammond Packing company prepares an order of 250000 pounds of cured and canned meats for the United States government subsistence department in Alaska. It is one of the largest single orders in the region for packing house products. The shipment goes from South Omaha to Portland Oregon and then to Fort Michael Cape Nome Valdes Camp Rampart Fort Gibbon Fort Bergert and Circle City.
Deputy State Labor Commissioner Kent reports in South Omaha that the use of children aged 11 to 14 in factories has fallen significantly since the child labor law took effect about a year ago. He cites a packing house sending home four children who had not completed twenty weeks of schooling in the past year.
A collage of advertisements touts Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, along with Magnetic Starch praised as top laundry starch, and Allen's Foot-Ease for foot care. The filler notes include moral adages and a quip about Adam and Eve.
A legacy ad touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a nationwide cure for ailments tied to being a woman. It claims to restore strength and health, invites readers to write for advice, and lists Lynn Massachusetts as the contact without charge.
United States Senator W V Sullivan of Mississippi writes from Oxford praising Peruna as a cure and tonic for catarrh. He says he suffered from early catarrh but improved after using Peruna and recommends it as the best he has tried. The ad touts Peruna as a nationwide cure with no substitutes and urges readers to obtain a free book from The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus Ohio.
J. T. Buchanan Gens Poss. Agent of the Fremont, ScLI-horn and Missouri Valley RR in Omaha Nebraska promotes travel via the Northwestern Line to Hot Springs South Dakota, Deadwood Lead City and Black Hills, Spirit Lake Okoboji and Minnesota lakes with pamphlets and cheap excursion rates available to Nebraskans seeking scenic and recreational trips. Travel advertisements highlight Elkhorn Valley farming, natural hot baths, gaming regions and diverse lodging options from Evans hotels to cottages.
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