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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1876
Page
4
A cold morning boy known as Triss hears a stranger’s tender call and returns a lost pocket-book to a kindly young woman. She rewards honesty with warmth and work, transforming his life as he sweeps streets and earns a living, guided by one simple act of kindness.
The article highlights nearly finished eateries near Horticultural and Belmont avenues, the Agricultural Hall at the Centennial grounds, and a forthcoming French restaurant near the Art Gallery. It notes a $30,000 pledge from the Book Publishers' Association for display items, plus miner alogical collections from Arnprior and a 100 year old New England farmer's home to be shown. It also mentions a Middletown ox exhibit weighing up to 6,000 pounds and contrasts 1776 farming life with modern improvements.
In Washington a Dead Letter Office sale disposes of unclaimed mail contents. Laces, gloves, infant clothes, knives, pipes, curiosities, and jewelry sell for pennies while a cache of coins and tools attracts small bids. The sale highlights misappropriated items and plans for a Smithsonian delegation to the Centennial.
A royal Christmas tradition features a 309 pound Baron of beef carved from prize stock. The cut from the Royal farm was sent as eighties pound rounds to the German Austrian and Belgian courts. The Queen’s fat cattle sale yielded a sizable sum for the Crown in 1985.
Paschal Loyd aged 73 on Wiley J Jones farm near this city died last week. He requested burial with his everyday hat on and his walking cane in the coffin. He asked the coffin lid not to be screwed down and his buckhorn handle hickory stick placed inside. Friends lowered the coffin with hat shoes stick in place.
A fragment discusses Greek terms for human folly using vivid phrases such as plowing the air and teaching iron to swim. It notes how metaphors compare everyday errors to animals and objects, painting a satire of human pretensions.
A collage of late 19th century items: a jury awards damages for chicken intrusions, a widow’s celebrations and superstitions, a California glacier observation, a glass of coffee and dry bread rations for a soldier, a New York physician graduate Sarah M. Logan, a bankrupt restaurateur and buckwheat supply, a California geologist’s glacier count, and a cracked bell on the S. P. Chase line tied to a romance at the depot with a tragic twist.
Parson Murray argues for frugal living to avert national bankruptcy and social chaos. He urges lower costs in homes, fewer luxuries, home amusements, and closer family ties, warning against excess and urging simple taste.
An item in the Woman's Journal includes photographs of seven Bologna University women professors who taught and lectured in earlier centuries. It names Calderini and Novella in the 14th century, Properzia de Rossi in 1500, Sirani in 1723, and Mauzo in 1780, noting hopes for future Harvard and Amherst women professors.
A Philadelphia letter to the Cincinnati Commercial recounts relics claiming John Quincy Adams’s baby clothes exhibited by Mrs. Charles Francis Adams. A museum visit leads to a comical clash with a mother-in-law type figure who derides the claim, then notes on Mrs. Preps’s injury aboard a Pacific coast steamer.
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