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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1894
Page
3
The text presents a month by month character study predicting traits for a girl born in January through December. It links each month to personality and fate, noting tendencies toward marriage, fashion, temper, and behavior, with varying degrees of practicality and elegance across the year.
The article discusses light reflection from white surfaces and compares materials like glass and looking glasses. It notes that white paper reflects about 82 percent of light, while glass is not inherently superior. It references practical observations from Brookville editors and mentions Dr Bull’s theories on coughs and colds in passing.
Gwen receives a silver crescent brooch from Uncle Ben for her eleventh birthday and borrows courage to wear it at school. Susie Carter is suspected of stealing the brooch after Gwen misplaces it, leading to social shunning. Gwen learns humility, apologizes, and later buys Susie a silver brooch for her birthday.
A pale hungry boy enters a Buffalo restaurant at 7:30 asking to sell poipers to buy food. He sells through the room, earning a penny from the cashier and ten cents from a table, then leaves. A spectator laments brutal fathers forcing children to toil while another boy rejoices at earning enough for minstrel gallery seats.
The Presbyterian Church in Paris wins a protracted legal battle with the city authorities over state grants for religious bodies. French law provides funds to sects by size, plus extra for lodging in Paris. The Seine prefect refused to honor the church draft, but after appeals the city must pay 173,000 francs yearly plus arrears.
A humorous exchange in Life magazine riffing on window cleaning. Mrs Witherby questions the timing while the other laughs that the windows were cleaned only two girls ago, showing light social satire.
An OCR fragment notes savings deposits by country with figures: Switzerland 360 inhabitants per thousand on deposit, Germany 180, France 170, Great Britain 183, and the United States 7 dollars per person, indicating cross nation differences in savings behavior.
A Cornhill Magazine correspondent visits a Nile dwelling and encounters a debonair Moslem elder surrounded by women and beads. The writer describes the elderly host with sparse flesh and shrunken limbs yet a regal air, noting his past violence and pride in his swords.
An itinerant drummer aboard a train tries to win a job and a pass with a whistle. He explains two telegrams he received one about his firm busted and in sheriff's hands the other from his wife abroad and broke for money. He jokes the whistle won’t fetch a dog or a ride home.
Bluffkins argues Englishmen boastful eaters and offers a stove anecdote as proof in a club scene. Mr Hawkins concedes the point after Bluffkins cites a home appliance claim. A separate note suggests a novel orange eating method with fork through the stem and rind removed.
A fragmentary dialogue portrays a woman praised by neighbors for her piano playing. A young caller asks about her progress, she modestly notes neighbors stayed awake listening, and she smiles with self assurance. The rest of the text remains garbled.
A Georgia News sketch portrays a mountaineer living simply among Blue Ridge scenery. He rears corn and cabbage, crafts with loom and spinning wheel, and markets produce by ox wagon, sometimes moonshining, yet seeks little money. The piece ends noting his unawareness of his own uniqueness.
A Pennsylvania judge in an interior county presided over a riot case in which an indictment named several Irishmen, including Pat Murphy who had a clear alibi. Despite proof he was sick in bed, the judge urged him to stand, declaring he was as guilty as the others.
Captain F S Robertson of Saltville region, riding with companions toward Bedrock Va, fired a single 32 caliber revolver shot that felled a large eagle crossing the path about fifty yards ahead. The bird weighed nearly ten pounds and spanned six feet seven inches tip to tip.
A Sandwich Islander defends her dignity amid remarks on race, recalling humorous pride in heritage and a claim that her family aided Captain Cook, revealing social tensions and self identity through a sharp exchange.
Paris photographers report low demand for images of prominent men as actresses and fashionable women rise in popularity. Dressmakers in Paris and the provinces buy these photographs not for fans but to study patterns for garments.
In Detroit a real estate dealer explains value with a joke. A man asks if a homely woman is handsome and replies that she would be if he wanted to sell her a house and lot at a good price.
The first aerial voyage occurred September 19 1783 with a sheep a cock and a duck reaching 1500 feet. The next month M Francois Pilatre de Rozier became the first human to travel through the air in a free balloon.
A historical note cites global birth and death rates, estimating a net yearly population rise of about 1.21 million. It mentions early Christians burning heretics like Origen and Arius, and briefly traces Washington state resources with salmon fisheries, fur seals, lumber, coal exports, and wheat yields.
Anecdotes about General Sam Houston illustrate his quick wit as he jokes with General H who, long a penitentiary financial agent, seeks reappointment. The governor notes H's eight years in the penitentiary and ponders pardoning him for faithful service.
The piece touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for nervousness and indigestion, describing a range of symptoms such as palpitations, tinnitus, facial flushing, altered tastes, and restlessness. It claims the remedy also combats constipation malaria rheumatism and kidney issues and restores sleep and vigor.
Early medical advice recommends a capsi cum tincture mixed with maucilage or gum arabic and glycrine applied to the bruised area. Painted on with a camel hair brush and allowed to dry, repeat coats if needed. Used promptly, it allegedly prevents bruising and is claimed to relieve rheumatic and stiff neck symptoms.
A vintage promotion touts Salzer seeds claiming 1213 bushels of onions per acre and rapid ripening varieties. It urges readers to mail 20 cents for a mammoth catalogue and a Ferris Wheel Tomato sample from John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wisconsin with promises of extremely early Northern grown produce and a wide range of seeds and farm goods.
A dead bull moose lies in the forest provoking reflections on its prehistoric appearance and grandeur. The piece contrasts hunter guilt with the skill of fair chase, then notes Beecham's Pills selling 25 cents a box for digestive issues.
A comical dialogue about how kittens are created followed by an early 20th century medical advertisement claiming deafness from catarrh can be cured. The ad offers one hundred dollars for any case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and invites readers to request circulars.
A dated fragment praises Eli's Cream Balm for chronic catarrh and mentions Hegeman's Camphor Ice. It also outlines Phillips Rock Island tourist excursions from Des Moines to Los Angeles or San Francisco with weekly departures and a daily service via the Southern route, led by managers and agents. Names include Charles Kennedy and John Sebastian.
A century ago a German advised sorrowful men to daily study a language or art to blunt grief. A political exile in solitary confinement kept madness at bay by decorating walls and sketching people and places. He urged pursuing small pleasures with methodical effort to heal the brain and counter strong emotion with gentle, constructive activity.
A promoting blurb touts Syrup of iigs as a delightful liquid laxative that cleanses the system and breaks up colds head aches and fevers without unpleasant after effects.
In London the Queen Considers closing St James Park to convert it into a palace garden. Sir Robert Walpole quips the cost as three crowns, an allusion to Fingland Scotland and Ireland. The Queen recognizes the joke and drops the idea.
For Coughs and Throat Troubles use Brown's broncman Trocies to relieve throat irritations from colds or voice use. 160 World’s Fair photos available for 1 dollar in ten parts plus full set by mail. Send payments by draft money order or registered letter to Gro H Hearronp, Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway. Also ticket rates for tourists and homeseekers, with Wabash office in Omaha and contact Gro N Clayton for full land and climate folders.
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