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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1893
Page
3
A fragmentary verse piece laments a lover’s rejection of a rose given earlier. The speaker pleads not to be discarded, warning that heartfelt gifts cannot be reclaimed and that the heart will falter when parted. The tone is mournful and resigned to impending loneliness.
In May a new Lone Pine station agent Mrs Hadley from Chicago settles at Lone Pine in the mountains near Bad Creek and Big Rock. In July tramps threaten the cabin, she fires from a window with buckshot and saves the crew, a bystander recounts. The tale follows later train dangers, landslides, and a tense frontier week.
In a midnight gunfight, a Lone Pine homeowner tests courage against a tramp gang firing through doors and windows. The posse, aided by a locomotive engine crew, pursued and killed four attackers as the woman defends her house with shotgun and revolver. The incident ends with a dramatic escape and a romance difference.
A New York Herald op ed laments the burden of pet care in the city noting vast money and time spent on dogs while many children lack access to public institutions. The piece argues dogs require constant guardianship and private housing in urban life.
An American visitor to Tangier during the recent siege notes stark poverty and barbarism everywhere. The market shows vendors seated on stones with dirt enshrouding wares, barbarous trinkets sold, Arabs displaying gun feats, nearly naked slaves weaving through the crowd, while a small Edison electric street lamp suggests Western civilization amid the chaos.
A discussion notes the scarcity of lead in pencils and rubber in India rubber, citing a St. Louis Globe Democrat writer. It describes an imitation using manita gum and resin oil that is elastic, cheaper, and less reliant on lead, offering a safer alternative for many uses. The text also includes a brief exchange on Salic Law and its restriction on female kings.
In a Lewiston mill a young woman’s hair was pulled toward revolving gears. A bystander used a sharp jack-knife to grip the hair and sever it near the wheels preventing serious injury.
A mother jokes about her spinster daughter turning twenty one and a companion playfully guesses her age. The dialogue riffs on perception and the difficulty of precise aging within a month or two. The exchange hints at light domestic humor and family dynamics.
The excerpt lists various durations for hypothetical feats and phenomena. It includes a man walking day and night around the world in 428 days, an express train in 40 days, sound at a medium temperature, 32.5 hours, a cannon shot 21.75 hours, light just over one tenth of a second, and electricity traversing a copper wire just under one tenth of a second.
A recent scientific note describes a device that keeps minnows alive inside a glass tube with circulating water, protecting bait from deepwater predators while preserving angling effectiveness. Although the concept of bottle bait is ancient, this method offers one improvement by preventing bait spoilage.
Mr Edison foresees newspapers born from a union of phonograph and typesetting. Editors read copy into phonographs, editors edit as they go. A compositor uses a cylinder to hear dictation and translate it directly to the mechanical typesetter keys.
A humorous clippings page item notes a Georgia experiment by Dr W T Herring attempting to freeze carp in a jar. The fish survived thawing and swam as before, illustrating a quirky science tale amid other household remedies and product pitches. It also includes testimonials for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and Salvation Oil, plus short filler lines about trees, mail-order nurseries, and Lane's Medicine.
A public health warning targets housekeepers, warning that alum baking powders contaminate bread and cause digestive and systemic harm. It urges avoidance of low price or gift-promoted powders and endorses Royal Baking Powder as pure and safe, noting health authorities praise its purity and superior baking results.
A furniture van blocks Sixth Avenue as a boy feeds a horse with a chunk from the van. The driver jokes about the boy’s generosity but explodes in anger when the boy admits the morsel came from the van, revealing a harsh street wisdom about sudden shifts in public favor.
An auction of a young millionaire daughter’s wardrobe in New York drew about 60 buyers. The costly royal purple velvet gown by Felix of Paris fetched $75 while a Nile green Felix dress brought $17 and a fur trim jacket by Robinson sold for $5. Most items went for $1 to $15, and total proceeds did not exceed $500 as the heir began mourning.
A British ship chasing a suspicious slave-trader encountered a chase episode when items were thrown overboard from the pursued vessel. Port Royal held the captured ship for papers and later a shark in a visiting vessel yielded a tin box with the missing documents. Kese proved the vessel’s slave trade guilt and officers were punished. The tin box is now housed in Whitehall Yard museum, London.
A New York society note describes Anglomaniacs in the city who wear trousers turned up at the ankles regardless of weather. One English bearing youth drew attention at a Fifth Avenue reception by displaying tightly turned cuffs and explaining it was a habitual mistake after forgetting to lower them in the dressing room.
A New Yorker forwarded Colonel Ingersoll's works to a friend in the West and sent a telegram hoping they would arrive safe and sound. Days later the reply arrived stating the books did arrive safe but not sound.
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