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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1907
Page
3
A narrator descends a shaft to a chalk cave system where smugglers hid. He discovers a captive girl kept in a secluded chamber, reacts to her strange beauty, and shares a moment of native communication with the silent child and a jackdaw.
An unnamed narrator recalls a perilous foray involving a famous smuggler, rigged plans to sink a washhouse and access a hidden well near the shore. He describes setting up a rope and tool, preparing for action, and a tense sequence of moving the vessel to reach the chalk tunnel and the reservoir beneath.
A narrator describes freeing a pale eighteen year old girl in a cavern. The girl appears fragile yet striking, with colorless skin and delicate features, her eyes reflecting darkness and strange light. Her retina shows disuse and her pupil is dilated as dim light barely illuminates her form.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger recounts Colonel Mahon and Col Plumer near Mafeking exchanging coded heliograph questions. Mahon’s evasive replies were devised by Colonel Rhodes and interpreted by Col Jarvis. The exchange used playful, cryptic cues referencing the Naval and Military Club, the Ward family, and Ninth Lancers led by Small Little.
Burt Seavey and Cullen Jorden were attacked by porcupines on a wood road near Scarboro while returning from work. Physicians in Portland removed more than thirty-five quills from each man’s legs. No serious harm expected unless blood poisoning develops.
Towne notes Browne, the local forecaster, has a fragile condition and questions arise as he alters forecasts repeatedly. The Catholic Standard and Times reports the discussion about his health and credibility.
A household testimonial emphasizes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills curing infant eczema and poison oak in a child and a boy, noting rapid relief and complete healing. The text also includes a sworn statement about Hall’s Catarrh Cure and general ads for health products. It ends with a note on amateur flower growing profits and horse show gown costs.
A Jersey City woman, Mrs Jane Farrell of 601 Ocean Ave, testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved her backache, swelling, dizziness, and urinary issues. She says she is now a well woman and believes the pills keep her healthy. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A long compendium of home remedies and tips. Advice covers cooking rice water for invalids, lemon storage, hair care, exercise, warm baths, and substitutes for calomel. It also includes notes on using lemons for fever, dangers of heavy bedclothes, unemployment myths, and Canadian immigration notices. Additional topics: oil storage, stain removal, tea leaf poultices, head ache remedies, houseplant care, happiness and folly quotes, olive oil storage, pigment stains, gardening philosophy, and youthful work ethic quotes from Greeley and Ruskin.
A Dundurn Sask letter details a high wheat yield of 9 280 bushels and oats near 5 000, with 43 1 2 percent bushels per acre testing 64 4 pounds per bushel. The writer owns a half-section west of the farm, aims to market 20 000 bushels next year, and praises Hoosier farming despite strong Minnesota rivals.
Teething relief advert notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children gums swelling and pain. Bottle priced at 25 cents.
A humor note from the Cleveland Leader recounts Talesman asking to be excused from jury service. The judge questions the reason and declines an excuse, joking that absence of mind is the best qualification for a juror.
A quip on memory notes how we store countless details of events yet fail to recall how often we have told them to the same individual. The remark attributes the idea to La Rochetou cauld and ponders memory’s selective recall.
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