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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
3
A jagged, first person letter about life in Alberta Canada in 1904. The writer mentions buying a pony and building a log house with a stable, family life, and references to winter, drills of daily work, and various personal observations. The text is fragmented and filled with misspellings and unclear passages.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a person with the name Reed and a number 32 N. Many unreadable words follow, no clear event, date, or context emerges. No verifiable entities or facts present to summarize a specific news item.
Read letters from Mrs Mindah Hipinele of Roscoe New York and Mrs Mary Lanxt of Coytee Tennessee praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for resolving childlessness and female health issues. Both claim successful pregnancies and easy recoveries after using the remedy.
Nebraska trial details Charles Harris’s murder of Hart Blenkiron in Belden. Evidence includes clothing and a revolver, with Mrs. Blenkiron identifying the vest stain and defense suggesting close contact. Harris testifies he acted after Blenkiron attacked him over a published article.
Lincoln March 19 imitation butter manufacturers represented by T J Mahoney of South Omaha file a brief in the Nebraska Supreme Court arguing the Pure Food act creating the Pure Food commission is unconstitutional. The brief questions mandamus authority and cites constitutional limits on creating new executive offices.
A petition to the Washington post office department asks Pawnee City to close the local post office all day Sundays, though it now opens one hour. The movement draws criticism with a remonstrance circulating, signed by many. If successful, several prominent businesspeople threaten to cut Sunday electric light and telephone service.
John Johnson a colored man wanted in Centralia Kansas for assault with intent to harm a white man named Dalton was chased for an hour and captured in a pasture two miles north of Pawnee City by local officers. The Nemaha County Kansas sheriff later returned the prisoner to Seneca.
In Lexington on March 17 the Frank L Dinsmore murder trial drew a large crowd at Smiths opera house. Defense counsel W B Jakway and Prof J W Dinsmore testified briefly before the jury, while Mrs Lane testified again and was cross examined. State and defense arguments followed, focusing on the alleged seduction versus voluntary relations and the defendant's character.
Blake C. Howard died at his Grand Island residence after a long career with the Union Pacific from 1868 as traveling engineer. He served as general foreman at the Luton Pacific shops from 1871 until his death, was a director of Grand Island Banking Co, president of the Equitable Building and Loan, served on the school board, and belonged to the Masons and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Miss Viola Horlocker, confined in a Jacksonville sanitarium since last summer after being arrested for allegedly sending poisoned candy to the wife of her employer, Mrs. Charles F. Morey, left Jacksonville yesterday for Wastings. Her case opens in district court next Monday as the first on the docket.
Austin Humphrey, a long time Lincoln resident born in 1833 in Richfield, Ohio, died of pneumonia at age 67 after a life spent in the local hardware business with his brother. He had lived in Lincoln for thirty two years.
Superior Nebraska news reports James Peer died of measles in Kansas and his brother John, ill but improving, died the same day after learning of James death.
The body of Alvin Elder of Company G Third Infantry died in Manila in August from malarial fever. He was buried in the National Cemetery at old Fort McPherson, with military honors, after arriving in Brad Island Nebraska for burial.
A possible Albert Braun of South Omaha was found dead in room 35 at the Dewey hotel yesterday morning. Two empty morphine bottles and a whisky glass on the washstand suggest an overdose intentionally or otherwise.
At 3 a.m. Cicero H. Thompson, Owl Saloon proprietor, fired on two privates from Fort Niobrara who forced entry. Three bullets hit Arthur London in the head, fatally wounding him, and two hit Austin H. Millaman, with doctors uncertain about his outcome. Thompson asserted he was awakened by forced entry.
The time to answer in the supreme court against Turlington Fremont Elkhorn Missouri Valley and Chicago Minneapolis Omaha railroads expired March 12. All defendants are in default and liable for the full judgments sought. The suits were brought by the attorney general about a month ago to recover fines from the State Board of Transportation in 1897 for restoring carload livestock rates.
Dr Winslow argues in Mad Humanity that insanity increases and human degeneration progresses gradually due to alcohol. He cites a list of geniuses allegedly deranged to support Lombroso’s view that genius and insanity are related.
An old style advertisement promises youth and hair preservation using Parker's Hain Bansam Hindercorms. It touts color and beauty benefits and claims a price of 15 cents.
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