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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1876
Page
2
Wyoming officials discuss two state conventions after a pamphlet debate. Fremont May 23 delegates to the National Convention in Cincinnati June 14. Lincoln date September 26 for nominating state officers.
Hon B H Barrows former Omaha Republican and newly named U S Consul at Dublin left this week for Ireland. The notice links his family to Rev S Barrows of Osceola and notes prior Union Pacific suit over $617411.56 in taxes on lands. Polk County seeks a $50000 set-off from U P for bridge tolls collected at the Omaha bridge.
The governor urges farmers and gardeners to plant a tree on Arbor Day April 15 to mark a centennial birthday of the republic. The writer adds Polk County should plant a centennial grove representing the states and plant acorns for the territories as an amendment.
A $20,000 building for a newspaper Exhibition will display a copy of each newspaper issue published in the United States during the Centennial event. Geo. P. Rowell of New York City will manage the project, which links the enterprise to the Record’s Centennial coverage.
The writer argues Nebraska should seek markets beyond the East, with mining regions in the West offering demand for surplus agricultural products. Rail access and narrow gauge lines could lower transport costs, linking wheat flour pork and beef to Wyoming Dakota Colorado and Utah mines as the West grows.
In Strongsbury Longyear Tribulations, the community backs a new church project with Methodist leadership praising faith as civic glue. A humorous leap year party unfolds as young men react to invitations, letters, and a fiasco with the post master, ending with a moral about flattery and genuine interest.
A fragment discusses women planning a leap year party and the tension with local boys. It suggests keeping the boys away to avoid making them crazy, signaling social friction over event planning in the neighborhood.
The Nebraska Conference invites the National Holiness Association to hold a camp meeting June 28 to July 5 at Bennett Grove fourteen miles southeast of Lincoln. Ground rent 41.00 per family tent. board on grounds up to 1.00 daily or 5.00 for the meeting. special railfare reductions and no Sunday train. Leaders Luskip McDonald Searles and Henderson will conduct. address G O White to secure lots. Com I M Nekavene and A T Davis oversee arrangements.
A 1876 proclamation outlines a special Pleas ant Home precinct election to authorize Polk County bonds worth 60 000 to aid Nebraska Railway construction from York to Pleasant Home and toward a Platte River bridge. Bonds issued if two thirds vote yes with phased delivery and tax levies to fund interest and principal.
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