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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1880
Page
2
A reverie describes a dream castle by the sea named castle marine with wealth, tapestries, statues, and ivory books. The speaker longs for a tangible sight of the dream, imagining open doors to a vast library and wealth beyond measure. The poem ends urging readers to build bright thoughts to endure heartache and seek a personal castle.
A narrator visits Littleton to view four elder sisters living in the white cottage after their father’s death. The four, Mary Martha Anna and Elizabeth, remain single with modest fortunes and quiet hopes of marriage. Years later he finds them together again, now in their graves, each with a separate tombstone.
A New York prank ends in farce as a man’s new stiff hat is secretly lined with cheese. The odor causes panic before a doctor reveals the ruse. The sick man, distraught and fearing smallpox, tries to cope as the truth emerges and the culprit remains at large.
A New York Times piece mocks women for ignoring exact measurements in shirt making and cooking. It claims women rely on finger widths and personal rules, leading to flawed results like neckbands of differing inches and unpredictable cake outcomes.
The Hartford Times reports measurements of several large elms in Deerfield Massachusetts and Weathersfield Connecticut. Williams elm circumferences at 1, 4, and 7 feet reach 26, 19, and 204 inches, with spreads around 150 feet. A second elm shows 27, 18, and 19 inches on the same heights, another 22 and 13 and 14 inches, with a 100 foot spread. The Weathersfield tree has a 55 foot 6 inch root girth, 21 foot 5 inch height at 3 feet 3 inches, and branches yielding 16 foot 8 inch, 11 foot 6 inch, 10 foot 3 inch, and 8 foot 7 inch limb girths. overall spread measures 150 by 152 feet with a 429 foot circumference.
A physician warns parents about giving tea and coffee to children. He notes tea diet yields only four pounds annual growth for youths aged 13 to 16, while milk improves growth to fifteen pounds yearly. He links tea use to weaker disease resistance and cites factory districts as a concern. He cites convenience and class imitation as motives, with pride a factor.
Captain Tom Bates testifies in a mining suit trial denying expertise and defines a mining expert as a man who wears eye-glasses parts his hair in the middle has graduated at Freiferg and speaks bad English.
A fragmentary poem mocks a dull mind and praises the imagination and ideal dreamer. It extols a soul attuned to beauty, describing a fairy grotto of mysteries that uplift imagination and feed the mind.
A curio of light verse and gags spoofs on advertizing, social mores, and everyday talk. Jokes about circus hype, weddings, milk, water at a hotel, prayers for bread, and a mix of puns and playful quips from a bygone era.
The 85 year old father of ex United States Senator Gordon of Georgia writes a letter to the Atlanta Constitution defending his son’s resignation. He quotes his son saying he craves peace at home and can earn more money out of public life. He says he advised resignation to protect private interests.
A curious catalog states that for 60000 dollars one could acquire 100 work and ring horses 29 ponies five elephants five royal Bengal tigers eight hyenas two lionesses and three cubs one lion jaguar five panthers one eland two peccaries one hartebeest two antelopes one llama one sacred cow one elk one zebra one camel one emu sixteen animal cages for such stock three cages for birds and small animals two tableau cars two railroad cars one band wagon one small chariot one dragon chariot one ticket wagon six truch wagons eight circus wagons nine tents with seating and clothing for five sleeping cars.
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