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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
6
Styles show green and black combinations with box plaits and black silk braid. Three-piece outfits feature red or tan coats and fiber straw hats with velvet bands. A rabbit’s foot tale highlights luck with money and the disbursing officer. White gowns, green accents, and blue shades dominate textiles and trims, with lace, insertion, and Valenciennes edging popular.
The article surveys current dress trends including bright green silk outfits, cream lace accents, and two piece suits growing simpler. It notes flounces, pleated skirts, and silk dropped skirts without lining, with materials from light transparent cloths to heavy whites, plus emerald and crimson trims and Irish crochet.
The article compares pianists hand types and notes how technique shapes finger strength and control. It highlights Liszt and Hambourg as class B players with remarkable reach and discusses the value of daily drills and devices like the technicon. A Detroit anecdote about pugilism ends with the speaker choosing peace after an awkward fight prove a lesson in grit.
Lace appears in many forms from hollow jet hatpins to decorative trims. Black chiffon rosettes top slippers while satin chiffon offers a new ribbon for summer gowns. White wash silk waist was with cords sells for 5 dollars. Handkerchief stocks show bold patterns. Grass linen coaching parasols with contrasting silk gain popularity. A realistic floral touch features ribbon violets with green leaves and tied stems.
The fragment references a man working all day then nursing a sick fellow and a woman’s endurance. A line compares a thrilling knife-throwing act to a wife’s daggers at her husband. The Philadelphia Bulletin quotes contrast exhaustion with domestic tension and hints at gendered labor and drink.
A Senate committee prompted a Department of Agriculture investigation into food adulteration. Findings show widespread tampering with many items, with substitutions often cheaper but similarly wholesome in some cases. Soap, glucose, lemon oil absence, and oleomargarine replacing butter highlighted. 1,033 of 1,777 Pennsylvania samples contained oleomargarine.
A Western lawyer suspends cross examination as a witness explains a word. The Los Angeles Herald reports a young woman with a haughty temper tests the meaning of shy by throwing a law book at the attorney, prompting the judge to conclude the meaning is clear.
A Washington Star quip recalls Mrs. Torkins urging Charley to promise not to gamble on horses, with his jokey reply that he will not bet a cent. The remark highlights how hindsight often prompts sharper thoughts once an opportunity has passed.
Mrs Pivanit recalls long nursing career and endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ovarian and womb inflammation. Virginia Grane, president of the Nurses' Association, lauds its success and urges remedies for sick women. Testimonial quotes praise and a $6000 forfeit if not genuine.
A fragmentary exchange appears with terse dialogue lines about what to say and what not to say. A Putnam fictitious dye product claim and a Paris physician assertion on drunkards and children are noted alongside an advertisement for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething healthy gums and wind colic relief priced at 26¢.
A fabric issue causes unbleached muslin covers to slip over pillows before clean cases are applied, potentially extending the life of the outer pillow case.
Paris newspaper Figaro reports eleven thousand five hundred fifty dollars gathered to aid French chariots racing in London. A note adds bathing water fragrance from fresh orange peel released into the water.
A garbled exchange cites women saving their wedding cake for years and a request to borrow it for a dream of marriage. The dialogue mentions Mrs Subart and a mum and hints at a social ritual surrounding weddings.
Red Gross Ball Blue cleans and freshens clothes, restoring new look. Available at all grocers.
A claim offers one hundred dollars for any deafness due to catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The advertisement explains deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and urges readers to obtain a free circular from J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills as best.
A mother argues against early marriage saying Walt is young and reliant on his mother while a daughter notes he can currently support a wife. The mother counters that he should first learn to sew his own buttons, implying dependence and readiness concerns.
An old newspaper ad urges shoppers to ask grocers for Red Cross Ball Blue and highlights a large 207. package offered for six cents.
Jeffson ridicules Timson about an early petition incident. He recalls meeting a “mean man”, Old Hardhead, who he says is too low down to live and refused to sign because he insisted on reading the petition first.
The first quarter saw 178000 immigrants arrive in New York, about 30000 more than any prior quarter. In Speyer Cathedral restoration, the Bavarian parliament approved 120000 marks for tombs of the old German emperors.
Mrs 8 Borden of 442 P street Washington D C cites Piso s Cure for Consumption as preferred cough remedy in a May 25 1901 communication.
A health note asserts cereals combined with eggs or vegetable oil supply all necessary nutrients for sustained health under any labor. It emphasizes the sufficiency of grain based meals with added fats or animal protein for active workers.
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's foot Base, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel loose. Relieves corns bunions swollen hot and sweating feet. At all druggists and shoe stores 25c. Sample sent free by mail Allen S Olmsted LeRoy NY.
In recent tests of guns on the ships of the North Atlantic squadron the gunner hit the target seven times in eleven shots, indicating accuracy.
Lusks Springs Indiana June 9. William Catterson reports his wife with neuralgia rheumatism and a failing health improved rapidly after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. From the start she grew better and is nearly well now. He praises the pills as life changing.
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