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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1909
Page
9
The sermon argues that neglect or indifference can close the door to life’s best blessings and to Christ. It warns that daily choices shape destiny, urging pursuit of the noble, the Christlike, and selfless service to enrich both self and others.
Henry F. Cope argues that a refined form of selflessness can mask self love. He traces how pious self-denial once shaped religion and questions modern life’s push for richer, fuller living. The piece ponders whether living fully requires sacrificing virtue or embracing a balanced, vigorous humanity.
A heartfelt tale from Rose Hartwick Thorpe recounts a station stop, a grieving English couple, and a moving return of a letter that binds hearts across oceans. A Mormon later arrives seeking Brackenboro as the story echoes themes of loss, faith, and reunion beneath willows.
A Berlin firm showcases an electric knife on Prof. Bier’s surgical team claiming rapid operations and quicker healing. The device uses a high frequency current to cut with a spark, sterilizes as it cuts, requires no sharpening, and can be sterilized and sterilizes as it cuts though early tests report more hemorrhage than conventional knives.
A Richmond woman employed a darky named Miff Cole who bragged of going to a funeral. He planned to ride a carriage to his uncle’s funeral five miles away, but revealed the uncle wasn’t dead yet, leaving his mistress disappointed with no tale to tell.
A visiting country woman stays in the city for two weeks and begins addressing her hired girl as a servant, prompting questions about class and respect within the household.
The new farmer solves America’s farm problems through individual initiative. He embraces a modern lifestyle with better homes, roads, and communication, supports a consolidated school and church, and works with neighbors for community uplift, valuing his profession and place in national welfare.
Secretary Wilson urges strict labeling of fresh and storage eggs, warning that many eggs sold as strictly fresh are two years old. Nebraska Minnesota and Pennsylvania lead prosecutions, as buyers demand honesty and price reflects egg quality.
The article explains profitable cow grooming using a currying comb and straw rub down to loosen dandruff and improve skin health. It advises outdoor air when weather allows, but to keep cows in the yard until pasture grass begins, as early pasture is too watery and costly for forage saved now will pay off when grass dries and growth resumes.
Diagram style notes describe an improvised chick brooder with parts including an upper smoke pipe to vent lamp fumes a cotton covered roof a heat reflector a heating chamber two ply flannel hover warmer and a fresh air chamber plus lower smoke pipe a galvanized iron rim and a warm fresh air inlet for the hover.
The Field and Farm piece argues heifers should be handled from both sides during early training. Start milking from one side and then the other to reduce reluctance. Milking from the left can be especially convenient, and a gentle caregiver yields better milk times than a distant, indifferent approach.
The excerpt outlines early turkey care with frequent meals of finely chopped foods such as hard boiled eggs and bread softened in milk, cornmeal mixed with milk, and ensuring they do not go hungry or eat spoiled food. It advises milk for drinking and, when weather confines them, to supplement with green food and hay seed, and to allow range as feathers grow.
A New York station asserts that strict cleanliness in handling milk from drawing to cooling, plus lower cooling temperatures, reduces microorganism presence, extends freshness, and improves profits, making milk healthier for all ages.
Advice on winter handling of young horses focusing on haltering, stalling, daily grooming, and frequent harness work to accustom them to regular tasks. Emphasizes that early training reduces mental load later as the horse learns required behaviors.
An Indiana inventor earns praise for a metal, scissorlike fruit harvester with a long bag and hollow handles to reach high branches. Other notes cover Edison records future, Egyptian dog burials, Long Island trials for rail electric systems, and a Kaiser hobby in Norwegian furniture.
In Norway experts report a new way to fix atmospheric nitrogen by passing it over heated calcium carbide to produce cyanamide. Marketed as nitroilium, the compound decomposes in soil to feed plants. Industrial production occurs at Odda Norway Piano d Ort a Italy Westergen and Bruhl Germany with plants planned at Alinssa Austria Hungary and Niagara Falls Canada.
The text advises keeping chicks clean under hens or in a brooder, daily cleaning as needed. It notes heat creates foul air and recommends delaying feed until 36 hours old since yolk supplies nutrition. Use fine gravel or sand as grit in the coop to aid digestion.
Department of Agriculture reports on 150 seed corn samples from Delaware showing over 20 percent imperfect germination and 28 percent deemed unfit for seed. Systematic selection could raise yields by 20 to 40 percent.
A government buyer advises choosing horses that move steadily with long strides. Avoid horses that take short nervous steps with a mincing gait as they tire quickly and burden riders. Cavalry horses in crack regiments are typically more gaited on walking.
January and February mulching with stable manure protects perennials and vegetables. The manure soaks into soil and moderates with weathering, becoming mild enough for next spring crops. Cautions against scattering excess manure in gardens and orchards.
Farmers around Shreveport will plant 250 acres in peanuts this year under the guidance of government officials who recently arrived to test peanut oil as a potential producer. Cotton-seed oil mills, typically idle in spring and summer, will be equipped for the experiment.
The New York Herald notes 213,786 colonels in the United States with 211,843 in Kentucky and 1,816 in Georgia, 716 elsewhere in the South and the rest in Manhattan and Washington. Only the 78 sun furnish the mame and number of their organs.
A collection of humorous vignettes and courtroom quips ranging from a Virginia stagecoach exchange where a passenger recalls meeting the other, to a Missouri wedding invitation, a gentle giant charged with cruelty to a meek wife, and a backwoods sign of spelling and teeth trouble. Also recounted are notes on Hon Edward Lauterbach with Col Spencer billing, and Admiral Schley guiding a young relative through a Daniel in the Lions Den scene with a witty punchline about no speeches after dinner.
Mrs Westcott confesses to shopping mischief during Christmas spending while her husband notes their funny mix up. She kept a waist for herself then gave sister a collar, and sister retaliated with handkerchiefs. The tale ends with the couple revealing humorous family gaffes.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a man eating a banana and recalling a schoolteacher’s warning of a bad end. The exchange pivots on the banana’s end as a pointed retort to the warning, suggesting irony or fate in a short vignette.
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