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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
3
A Philadelphia Methodist quotes Bishop Foss anecdotes about prayer and recalls a Norristown preacher who, after listing prior hardships in a long prayer, prays for the burden of wealth if further trial is needed.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for cured catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Ball's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from Toledo druggists Watping Kinway Manvin. The copy urges internal use and claims blood and mucous surface effects with 75 cent bottles and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The text recalls a wife claiming a year of peace with husband Philip who travels. a friend corrects her saying they were married seven years ago, exposing the gag about his traveling salesman status. It then lists brief adlike lines on health, candy, piano songs, and cigars.
Public wellness notice urges readers to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a key to health. It lists indigestion dyspepsia constipation poor appetite biliousness cramps headache diarrhea and malaria fever and ague as conditions it treats, and warns to insist on the genuine bottle with a private stamp over the neck.
John Foster Frazer reports on Watoro and Nigerian methods of treating internal pains. He describes red hot poker therapy alongside tribal bones and limb stretching, mullah charms, and worm legends as explanations for ailments. He notes the healer’s fees and religious consequences if treatment fails.
In 1871 Edward Lear visited Mahabaleshwar with the Bombay governor. A walk led to Lear’s sketch of a bull peering into a jam pot to help remember the jam fruit name jambul, illustrating his memory system.
A aphoristic remark notes that when a forty year old woman flatters herself as twenty five she tends to behave as if she were sixteen, implying vanity influences maturity and actions.
The glacier eroded peaks and spread material across the land, smoothing the continent into plains. Glacial deposits average over 100 feet, up to 500 feet in places, and resemble unsorted rock mixtures unlike water-deposited layers.
The 1860 Sicilian expedition led by Garibaldi, with about a thousand men, landed near Marsala and faced a Neapolitan fleet. They overran the Two Sicilies, reached Naples, and propelled Italian unification amid skepticism and hardship. Garibaldi’s bold campaign and later renunciation of power shaped a unified Italy revered in history.
Carl Holliday recounts the ancestry of kissing from ancient Europe and Asia to the Romans and Greeks. He notes diverse forms like osculum basium and suavium, cites Plutarch on public affection, and claims Roma introduced the kiss to greet husbands after long voyages.
A reader named Lot asks that no mention be made of his wife turning to salt, insisting the matter is a private family affair and not the public’s concern. The exchange frames a tension between rumor control and newspaper coverage in a bygone era.
A prominent man of town pursued every theater opening last season, attending 156 first nights across forty weeks. He saw 74 new plays, 34 revivals, 37 musical comedies, and 11 Shakespearean revivals, enduring a parade of plots and witticisms while seeking genuine acting and moving moments.
The piece recalls Nightingale’s Crimea mission and the rise of trained nursing since the Belle Vue Training School's first class in 1872. It credits her with transforming hospital work and giving nursing its noble vocation, noting women’s growing participation and impact in healthcare.
An endorsement from Henry Palmer of Barnesville outlines severe kidney trouble and relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills. The ad promotes the Buffalo based Foster Milburn Co. and lists price at 50 cents a box. A separate humorous note recalls Governor Marshall being praised by an Irish widow at a funeral.
A humorous dialogue notes Bondsonby quitting smoking after a stenographer hints she would kiss someone who did not smoke. The second item shows a husband urging his wife to flee a burning house as she delays to tidy up.
A Bloomdale reader reports relief from headaches backache and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The letter extols cures and urges other women to seek the medicine and advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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