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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1905
Page
6
A Cleveland Leader poem-like snippet counsels readers to take a breath, walk outside, and return to work with a renewed spirit. It urges resilience when life and trouble loom, encouraging fresh air and a lighter mood.
Jasper Gregg hires Anna Vernor as a stenographer and quickly notices her poise. A factory fire tests his leadership as Anna helps manage the crisis. Wounded but recovering, Jasper contemplates partnership, while Anna reveals she is Anna Blaine and hints at a future together as they plan life beyond the fire.
The Lon don Mail describes Compte de Lambert and partners De Dion and Bou ton testing a 36 by 9 foot hydroplane boat with five fins. A 14 horsepower motor reached 28 kmh, then 32 kmh, with plans to reach 60 mph using more horsepower. The craft rises on the water, then glides with minimal resistance as the planes tilt.
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts a dentist claiming women avoid fillings to preserve speech during treatment. The dentist asserts women endure pain better, but fear the rubber mouth shield that blocks talking, leading to lost customers and a satire on future painless devices.
A survey of innovations mentions titanium oxide as a fireproofing agent for fabrics, an alkali-free soap from Sapindus utilis in Algeria, and a German atomizing dyeing method enabling direct application to cloth. It also notes Dr Bergen Davis’s electrical view of gravity, submarine earthquakes mapped by Wilhelm Krebs, and radium research by Dr I S London including radiative wool applications for medical use.
A negro prints and sells hundreds of copies of a letter claimed to be from Jesus Christ. The letter promises protection from pestilence and disaster to buyers and asserts divine approval. The Pittsburg Times reports the scam targets ignorant readers among Columbus residents.
A playful look at folk weather signs as simple gauges beyond barometers and morning papers. The piece cites smoking cigar tips, slipper creaks, and damp atmosphere as indicators, noting ordinary items reveal coming rain and changing skies in a folksy Chronicle tone.
The Honolulu Iron Works has won the contract to build a twelve roller sugar mill for Alexander & Baldwin at Maxwell Hawaii. The plant will use Ikra jetewski-Pesant cane crushers driven by two Corliss engines and will replace the island’s remaining diffusing plant. Construction to start in 1905 with operation planned for 1906.
Anonymous information leads to officers ascending the Que luc church spire in southern France where a seventeenth century still is found in perfect order though unregistered. The vicar claims unawareness of the device while the sacristan's explanation fails and he faces possible action for trespass. Negro Babies Chase Color: A German doctor recalls stages of skin color in African Togoland newborns ranging from European hue at birth to purple lilac, light chestnut, and finally black by three to four months.
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a claim of a half million profit amid questions of deceit and imposture. The exchange hints at scandal and pursuit of truth as characters discuss outcomes and motives.
In Country Life in America the Sleepy Woodchuck is described as slow and lazy yet bold when defending its burrow. It spends summer awake for meals and naps, ventures into orchards, and fights dogs if challenged before retreating to a long autumn slumber.
A Phillipsburg Kansas man known for stashing cash after hours hid money by burying it in a bean barrel. A clerk later weighed beans and the cash shifted, leading the man to track the beans to a customer’s house where the money was recovered. Deposit, merchant run open a
The Nyngan to Bourke railway traverses a 196 mile flat plain with a mathematically straight course. Embankments are scarce and curves few, with only three slight elevations noted. Lions and tigers are described as too weak to run more than a half mile. An old-fashioned woman’s dinner is likened to a grocer’s bill of fare, and the wise men seem to know less each day.
A chaotic, partially legible fragments report from a Philadelphia setting includes stray lines about a bishop, a preacher, a little boy, and a crowd asking questions. The text contains broken phrases and unclear interactions with distant references to locations, people, and street scenes.
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