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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1938
Page
5
A collage of quick sketches and quips from a rural community, including jokes about a deaf father at a dance, a courtroom exchange over drunkenness and marriage, a vendor's low prices, political milk slogans, and humorous exchanges at a hall and academy. The material showcases local humor and social quirks through narrator voice and punchlines.
Steady work good pay reliable man wanted to call on farmers in Polk County no experience or capital required make up to $12 a day write MR. THOMAS Box 533 Lincoln Nebr. The Polk Progress notes numerous local club events and social visits across Osceola, Stromsburg, Shelby, and surrounding towns with upcoming meetings and community notices.
A Washington Star writer details circus animal habits including tigers and lions craving catnip, elephants liking coal and dirt daily, and even the elephant’s backward hind legs and strong tail. It notes trick horses are white to hide rosin and prevent slipping.
The article outlines Herodotus birth in Halicarnas sus around 484 B C He leaves for Samos to acquire the Ionic dialect travels through Greece Asia Minor Syria Babylon and northern Africa He returns to aid in Lydisimus expulsion then moves to Therrii in Italy in 443 B C where he spends the rest of his life writing his history He dies at an unknown age possibly very old.
The notice touts superior printing results and the use of high grade Hammermill Bond paper to persuade customers to place orders.
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