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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1894
Page
1
Osceola sees furniture sales and trade notices at the World’s Fair store. Local visitors include Andrew Horst, Miss Effie Hefflebower, and visitors from Lincoln and Omaha. The town hosts church events, school entertainments, revivals, and a town board meeting debating a waterworks election.
California for health pleasure and prosperity advertises rail travel aboard the Union Pacific. It offers first and second class sleepers and dining cars to San Francisco. One way twenty dollars, round trip eighty five fifty. Includes request for new 1894 pamphlets about the Mid-Winter Fair via agent R. R. Genge.
After Rev O M Baum announced his resignation from the C P Church in Martinsville Indiana a large portion of the congregation gathered around him in tears. Members signed a petition urging him to reconsider while plans for his future move to Florence Colorado as pastor of a C P church were discussed. The minister states the change is for health reasons and the farewell touched many hearts.
James N Sprague of Silver Creek Nebraska died suddenly last Wednesday afternoon around two. He fell from a wagon near the stock yards while en route to check farm land for his son Frank and died in his arms. Born February 8, 1826 in Shoreham Vermont he journeyed to California in 1852 and again in 1836 married Emma May Freiser in Omaha before the first trip. He later returned to Omaha in 1871 and moved to Silver Creek in 1872 marrying Melissa Howland in April 1885. He died March 7, 1894 leaving a wife and five grown children. The community extends sympathy and he was laid to rest in Silver Creek cemetery.
Cure promoted as guaranteed for liver kidney and all diseases of women. Claims quick positive action to stop backache and sick headache. Sold by R K Baum.
A North wind forecast by R. K. Baum promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a quick and safe remedy. The notice presents a sharp, keen cold weather scene and claims rapid, wondrous results.
Prolific eye expert Hirschberg of 629 Olive street St Louis and 80 14th street New York informs friends and patrons in Osceola and vicinity that he will be at his agent R K Baur store on March 21 and 22 to adjust his non changeable Spectacles and Edge-glasses. Consultation free.
G T Ray has taken the agency to sell that incomparable work The Book of the Fair in Polk County. The ad urges all who saw the fair to view the splendid volume and those who did not to study it as it was. Call at Hatin's Drug Store to examine and place orders.
A notice invites the public to consult Prof. Hirshberg, a renowned New York and St Louis expert, in Osceola March 21 22 at R K Baum to fit Non Changeable Spectacles and Glasses. Consultation free.
A knocked down small elevator with building material machinery and engine is offered for sale at Ogallala Nebraska to interested buyers. For details contact W H Hancece of Omaha Nebraska.
The Hirschberg Optical Co announces a visiting program with Prof Hirschberg and RK Baum to offer eye examinations and sale of non changeable spectacles at 620 Ouve Street and 14th Street New York. Doctors endorse the product citing clarity comfort and durability for workers needing glasses.
An old advertisement touts Early Risers pills for constipation headaches fatigue and nervousness with claims of quick relief and renewed energy. The copy mentions deceptive health promises typical of patent medicines of its era.
35 years experience offers piano tuning and organ building services. Prefers customers with oak framed pianos strung with hardened steel wires. avoids cheap instruments with weak frames and soft iron wire. Contact 8 Dearborn, Osceola Neb?
Prof. H Hirschberg and agent R K Baum announce Non-Chang eable Spectacles and Eye-glasses available in Osceola March 21 22 with free consultation. View at 629 Olive St St Louis and 30 E 14th St New York. proper adjustment offered.
The notice promotes DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve as cleansing purifying and healing. It claims the salve is made for that purpose and suitable for butcher cuts bruises chapped hands sores of all descriptions and even piles. HR Baum.
A reader questions the sequence of relief claims about One Minute Cough Cure and notes that people should take it and do, citing K Baum as the source of comment.
Ad touts DeWitts Little Early Risers as superior aid for digestion dyspepsia bilious ness and constipation. Claims reliability and fame. Packed with promotional tone and brand emphasis.
The text notes a ticket offer where five pays for a berth in a Pullman Tourist car and twenty pays for a first class passage, all through the Union Pacific Railway System via agent R Genge.
Promises that Burns are painless with prompt application. Claims it cures skin diseases chapped hands and lips and never fails to cure piles. RK
The Recorp offers a reading deal for 1.50 covering Chicago Inter Ocean New York Tribune and Osceola Record. The package lists each paper at 1.00 totaling 3.00 but will be sold for 1.50, with the option to get Record plus either paper for 1.25. The advertisement urges urgency before the offer ends.
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