Osceola Preparing New Bowling Alley and Hospital Wing
Osceola moves ahead with stripping the old lumber yard to build a six lane bowling alley for summer use, backed by the Osceola Legion Post. Dr. Jeffrey funds a new wing at Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital to expand patient care, with construction to start soon and finish before cold weather. A sewage disposal project and a cement elevator storage facility for Farmers Co op Grain Co. are also planned, signaling a busy Osceola summer.
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Osceola
Legion Post
Dr. Jeffrey
Annie Jeffrey Memorial Hospital
Farmers Co-op Grain Co
Electric industry set for strong growth into 1979
The Edison Electric Institute projects rapid expansion for the U S electric utilities over the next twenty years with predicted sales near eight percent annually and a total electricity use in 1979 of about 1.1 trillion kilowatt hours as the nation’s economy grows toward a trillion dollar GNP in 1957 dollars.
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Edison Electric Institute
Electric Light and
Trade Association of the Industry
Institute
United States
Something To Cheer About Health and freedom in American life
Global and national studies say Americans are the healthiest people despite tense times. The piece credits forefathers and a free enterprise system for prosperity and well being, noting welfare in food clothing and housing as signs of national strength.
Health progress and drug price declines across decades
The piece asserts U S gains in disease treatment and health output, noting major drug and vaccine advances and falling costs. It highlights Salk vaccine, insulin, penicillin, antibiotics, cortisone, vitamin B12, and overall life expectancy rising from 1937 to today, portraying U S leadership in health progress.
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Manufacturing Chemists’ Association
America
Jansen Mennonite Colony in Nebraska History
A June 1954 Nebraska History piece describes Jansen as one of three Beatrice to Fairbury villages on Highway 3 with a strip farm layout and a Mennonite Rus sian origin. The colony stretched 25 000 acres, included seven early settlements, and featured goose herding and a hoped for silk industry with mulberry trees. by the 20th century it faded into a typical surrounding rural community. Also included is a probate notice from Polk County for the estate of J Calder Throckmorton with hearing set for July 5, 1958, in Osceola.
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Nebraska
Beatrice
Fairbury
Jansen
Russia
Holland
Prussia
America
United States
Club Creek Precinct
Osceola Estate License Petition Seeks Real Property Sale
In Polk County District Court H. R. Burns as administrator of Lulu Burns estate petitions for a license to sell the S 5-6 of Block 7 in Nance & Morrill's Second Addition Osceola Nebraska a 5 acre tract with dwelling and out-buildings to pay debts costs of administration and accruing costs due to insufficient personal property. An order to show cause is issued.
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Polk County
H. R. Burns
Lulu Burns
Nance & Morrill
Osceola
Nebraska
Notice of Estate Sale and Final Report in Polk County
The document orders that heirs and interested parties appear in Osceola on July 16 1958 at 2 PM to show cause why a license should not be granted to H R Burns administrator to sell real estate to pay debts. It directs publication of three consecutive weeks in the Osceola Record. Also notice of final report for Esa D Conkling deceased with hearing set July 11 1958 at 10 AM for final settlement and distribution. discharge of executrix to follow.
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Chambers
Osceola
H. R. Burns
Osceola Record
Polk County
Nebraska
Esa D. Conkling
L. M. Merrick
Osceola City Council Proceedings June 5 1958
The Osceola Nebraska City Council meets with the mayor and all members present. Minutes read and approved. Treasurer's monthly statements and various city funds reviewed and approved. Ordinance No 261 advanced through three readings and passed. Library board report accepted. Deed authorized for Morningside Lot 1 to 18 Block 13 upon payment. Adjourned. Special meeting set June 12 1958 for sewer contract with Dougherty Bros. and Change Orders 1 and 2 approved.
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Osceola
Nebraska
St. Dist
U sOid
A. W. Gabriel
Vern Johnson
City of Osceola
Gas Co
Pentitgemceteiins
Lincoln Tel
W. W. Norton
H. Jay McDonald
H. Rowan
Virgil Johnston
H. C. Grover
Mark Gustafson
BE. C. Schott
Nebr. Fire Chiefs Assn
Art McVeigh
Polk Co. Nox
Weed Dist
Jumbe OS Hastings Mach
W. W. Nortor
Lincoln Equip. Co
Tropical Paint Co
Osceola Transfer
Dale Lewis
Mariemont Printers
Capitol Supply Co
Eugene Johansen
Osceola Fire Department
Johnson
Sedlak
Mills
Eikenhorst
Thomas Hofbauer
Morningside
Nebr
Dougherty Bros
Insurance ads for city, farm and life polices
Local brokers advertise automobile irrigation wind farm bids and farm management. Walter Koehler Bert Gissler present insurance services with Life Retirement Hospital and accident polio coverage. Equitable Life Assurance Society rep Mary Gerdes offers policies for every life insurance need.
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Walter H. Koehler
Bert Gissler
Mary Gerdes
Equitable Life Assurance Society
U. S
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Wwtsss Association
Mational Editorial Asso
Don and
Mary Waterman
Gooch
Farmers Co
Grain
J. Calder Throckmorton
State of
Maxine Throckmorton
Outor
Arxita Sowel
Trouble Free
Gas
ARELA
H. Emerson Kokjer
Farmers National CO
Phil Vrana
Columbus
Byers & Pierce
First National Bank
Massey-Harris
Shelby
Massey-Ferguson
McMeekin Implement Co
assey-Harite Ci
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