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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1881
Page
4
A speaker laments envy over wealth while grieving a neighbor's death. She recalls a coffin carried by villagers and a mother's heartbreak in the mansion across the way. The window glows with health and flowers as a beloved baby is lost.
A devotional poem by Bertie Bilas urges perseverance through rough paths and dark seas. It frames life as a journey toward a bright, heavenly country where God directs the drifting barque, blesses the faithful, and grants mercy as burdens are borne with patience.
In March 18th century tale, Lawrence Temple travels from Pembroke to Ottawa with English sovereigns and Mexican dollars to repay a lumber company. On return wolves attack his mare near a clearing, forcing a desperate escape as the rider confronts a feared pursuit in severe winter.
Lawrence flees a pack of wolves chasing him and his mare along a snow covered road. He shoots one wolf to save his life, reaches camp safely, and finds the remains of the other wolf near money bags torn open by the animals.
The Senate elected new committees and chairs in a party line reorganizing vote. Senators Anthony and Pendleton led moves to organize on republican basis, with Davis and Mahone switching to the Democrats amid applause. The list includes Elections chaired by Cameron and a full roster across Foreign Relations to Public Lands.
The critique contrasts Carlyle’s stern call to honesty and toil with Mill’s pragmatic defense of political action. Carlyle’s anti-humbug gospel spurred moral awakening, while Mill shaped practical governance and reasoning. Both shaped English speaking intellectual leadership, each fueling the other.
The essay discusses various instances of people altering surnames for social, political, or personal reasons. Examples include John Howard Smith to J Howardsmith, Roswell Smith to Roswellsmith, and Dr J Marion Sims children forming MarionSims. It notes August Belmont, Frank Leslie, Henry Wilson, and Thomas Paine Jr as figures who changed names, often under antipathy or secrecy, reflecting broader social trends.
A 19th century pondering notes that people stay silent about themselves and praise others if forbidden to boast. It contrasts a woman’s speech as a sharp sword with the idea of calling a hanging a neck section, hinting at prudence in speech and judgment.
A vintage ad style piece encourages the good housewife to purify blood and regulate bowels to prevent spring illnesses. It praises Hop Bitts as the perfect medicine to counter malaria and miasma effects and to maintain a healthy household.
A teacher wakes pupils by counting to set discipline, only for them to interrupt with a noisy chorus about hindering and a fire on the master's coat tails. The tale closes with a proverb about learning from loss and a hornet sting teaching a blunt lesson.
An advertisement notes Bagcage Expressage and Carriage Hire near Grand Central Depot with 850 rooms offered from $1 daily. It lists transport connections and the nearby Grad Union Hotel and rail lines to all depots. Also promotes The Citizen Soldier and Washington World weekly journal and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve claim of curing piles for 20 cents.
Six horsepower portable steam boiler in first class order only six months in use. Price low and terms easy. Address WesTERN Newspraper UNION Geo. A. Joslin Myr Omaha Nebraska.
A bold young archer asks a bow be shared as they stroll the field. She consents softly and notes her preference while the arrowed youth eyes the target with a sigh, blushing at the exchange.
A catalog of famous misprints from Chicago Times Herald and World's reports includes lines like hymn misreadings, “Nearer, by God, to Thee” and “fist of the Almighty,” plus errors such as “the Indians' beets and carrots” and “death of a pirate.” A Connecticut editor’s piece becomes “Is there no barn in Guilford” by mistake.
In Kingston a local entomologist dumped spirits preserved insects on an ash heap. Sparrows mobbed the heap, gulped the bugs, and fought in large, drunken clashes. The fray ended with many sparrows killed by cats and no sparrows seen afterward.
A deliberately cryptic OCR fragment discusses fear and worst outcomes. The text mentions a woman and a fixed head but provides no clear events or identifiable persons, places, or organizations. The readable portion centers on uncertain reasoning and veiled statements.
A hospital matron recalls a blind inmate who fed herself with a tray on her lap. Each day a cat approached, studied the girl, and stole a morsel from the plate, then left unseen. The cat concluded the girl could not see and used this knowledge to steal.
A hawk and a rattlesnake battle on a sunlit rock as the snake coils and strikes. The hawk dives in, seizes the snake by the neck, and drags it aloft to eat once the reptile goes limp.
Editor's note contrasts Carlyle and Mill as dominant influences on their era. It recalls their friendship, Carlyle's burned History of the French Revolution manuscript, and their differing temperaments. Carlyle, poetic and moody. Mill, a disciplined philosopher with broad knowledge and sharp mental training.
A letter cites misuses of communion wine in Presbyterian circles, detailing ministers’ alcohol problems and elders’ drinking during visits, with effects on members, families, and young people. It notes a lack of consensus at a synod meeting on forming a total abstinence association.
A reader asks how to beat the blues and shares her relief from Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The letter extols remedies for skin diseases in children, cough cures, painless piles treatment, and various patent medicines, with ads for rough on rats, salves, and tonics rounding out a period medical-and-patent remedy roundup.
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