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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1876
Page
1
A fragment reflecting hardship from cold weather and rent, urging thrift and shelter over street life. It critiques high meat bills while praising pea soup as a modest, practical staple for poor families, noting its value as a stuffer for hungry children and as a deterrent to begging.
A narrator recounts a perilous ascent in a cathedral tower where friend Symes fell into a rope hole and hung fifty feet above the nave. After heroic effort the man is rescued, but the incident leaves Symes severely shaken and later embittered, while the narrator survives and later shares the tale.
A Cincinnati correspondent jokes about men wearing women's clothing at Mardi Gras, noting their bustles often misfit and bob about. He compares male performers unfavorably to practiced female attire, describing awkward fits and repeated adjustments as the demonstration of inexperience.
A Detroit Free Press item recalls a lower Woodward scene where an elderly apple seller offers fruit to a ship captain. He teases her age, she offers two apples for a cent, and she slips two more into his pocket, closing with a sly smile.
A farmer near Memphis defied a law prohibiting a man from marrying his deceased wife’s daughter. He was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the penitentiary, but Governor Porter granted a prompt pardon.
Tae Khedive pursues improv ing Egypt becoming a de facto sovereign, largest landowner, top farmer, principal merchant, and leading hotel keeper. His ministers call it public spirit.
A Washington correspondent argues the Belknap affair reflects a long standing drama of corruption. He claims female influence and high society temptations drive many scandals while urging plain living as a safeguard.
A boy traded an old nonworking watch for a stout goat at school. The father misses the timepiece when he returns and learns the boy swapped it for a goat that would “go.” Police seek the boy who traded the watch.
A typhoidal epidemic broke out in a Lancashire village of about five hundred residents with one hundred fifty ill. Investigators traced the poison to milk supplied by a sick cow. Earlier London authorities noted another unusual illness not linked to food but possibly from cooking utensils washed in impure water.
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