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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1922
Page
2
Paris reports the French colonial office is studying measures to end slave selling in Africa. Kabylie fathers boast high prices for daughters sold as wives in a ritual bargaining, with routes through caravans and narghiles.
In Bad Axe Michigan Lula McAuley is appointed county sheriff to finish her late husband Donald McAuley’s term. She leads three male deputies, vows to enforce laws, and plans to attend raids personally while aiming to serve temporarily and not seek re election.
Fragments of a mastodon skeleton were found by oil drillers in Gray county Texas. The bones were embedded in a dry sand strata and appear large enough to indicate a prehistoric creature.
A playful piece questions a movie hero’s inner focus and motives. It ponders whether action or philosophy drives the character and imagines the mental gears behind on screen bravado.
Windham Maine reports four year old Mabel Edith Greenlaw speaks French Spanish and English. She can name states and Maine cities and towns and answers geography questions promptly. She began walking at seven months and corrects others grammar.
Witnesses describe a sudden mud geyser eruption near Salt Sea in El Centro sending mud smoke and steam 200 feet high. The event lasted about 20 minutes and was reported by several observers with no warning.
Seven year old William Elliot Bradford from Woodcrest school in Los Angeles amazed psychologists at UC Southern Branch with the Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon tests. They noted a brain two years ahead for his age while he read a poem and correctly wrote a complicated word at the board. His memorization of Whittier’s Barbara Frietchie at age six surprised his mother, and his principal says he could begin eighth grade. Bradford’s lineage traces back to the Mayflower governor William Bradford.
A wide range of Nebraska events and notices include a new fifty barrel flour mill for Alliance and a community mixed chorus in Falls City. graduations, county meetings, con ventions and society gatherings across Omaha and other cities. incidents include yeggmen raiding Waterbury Bank for 38500, a lightning strike at Wauneta, and a puma escape at Alliance circus.
The Nebraska Supreme Court rules in Kaplan versus Gaskill that owners who merely own and manage property and hire repairs through contractors are not covered by the Workmen's Compensation Act. Carpenters electricians and other repair workers for owners are excluded unless a contractor is engaged to hire the workers. The decision affects building trades across the state and details are available at the Compensation Commissioner’s office or the Omaha Courthouse.
In a Belgian town a daily bonfire of stripped ammunition fires each afternoon. Workers light four torches to burn 30,000 shells in trenches, under safety inspectors watch. The process creates smoky, multicolored flames that locals read as a timepiece before the next day’s reuse of the site.
George E Roberts of National City Bank spoke to the Export Managers' club in New York, linking world markets from tea in Russia and India to cotton in Manchester and shoes in Australia. He argued how disruptions ripple through mills, mills towns, and payrolls from New England to Philadelphia.
A mystery show by Houdini accompanying his first motion picture for his own company featured an illusion of elephant disappearance. Two elephants were used and Emil Ankermiller, former manager of famous actors, acted as private secretary to the elephants. One elephant struck Ankermiller with its tail, prompting his sharp reply.
Markwich asks about reading habits and Jones answers that his sister finds reading a pleasure but lags behind others because she forgets where she stopped and must restart to be safe. The exchange appears in the London Answers column.
Whittier quotes describe John Woolman as someone whose testimony of love reached hearts across custom and pride. The passage notes his success in softening hard hearts and eroding avarice, power, and opinion wherever he spoke.
Stories recount Roman Nose Woquini Hooked Nose as a legendary Northern Cheyenne warrior. He led a dawn charge against Gen Forsyth’s scouts at Beecher’s Island on September 18 1868, died that evening, and his war bonnet failed after a fork used at a feast broke the ritual power.
Satanta, Kiowa chief known as the Orator of the Plains, rose to fame after the Medicine Lodge treaty of 1867 where he declared love for land and buffalo. He led raids painted in crimson, impressed officials, and once wore a general’s uniform during a raid. He served prison time for killings, and died by suicide in 1878 after warpath tensions and imprisonment episodes.
Flower sermons began in St. Catherine Cree England with congregants carrying flowers on Whit Monday and a larger bouquet laid on the pulpit cushion. The custom has spread and varies by church now often on Sundays with flowers decorating the service. Spring timing remains common.
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