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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1876
Page
2
A reflective voice laments poverty and hunger, urging thrift and practical fixes. The speaker emphasizes rent, shelter, shoe repairs, and warmth over outdoor hardship, while criticizing excess meat consumption and proposing frugal substitutes like pea soup to feed children and ease daily needs.
The narrator recalls an eerie night in Westchester Cathedral with Geoffrey Symes climbing toward an open tower hole. A rope mishap leaves Symes suspended above the nave, prompting a perilous rescue that ends with safety, a hospital stay, and Maitland’s recollection of the incident.
Cincinnati correspondence notes comic mishaps as men in dresses struggle to wear bustles at Mardi Gras. Authors describe bustle misplacements shifting around hips and low, with each man nervously checking behind to keep it in place.
An elderly apple seller near Woodward Avenue offers fruit to a ship captain. He teases her about age and beauty, she bargains apples for two for a cent, and they exchange light banter before she slips two more into his coat pocket.
A Memphis area farmer was indicted and convicted for marrying the daughter of his deceased wife, violating a statute like Massachusetts. Governor Porter issued a prompt pardon, restoring the man to liberty.
Tue Khedive pursues improv to expand influence in Egypt acting as sovereign landowner farmer merchant and hotel keeper. His ministers call it public spirit in a display of broad leadership and elevation of state role.
A Washington correspondent argues that sexual temptation and social snare drive official corruption. The piece claims women and wine as roots of evil and notes scandals often hinge on female motives, citing Senate remarks about avoiding ostentation to dodge accusations of theft.
A Derrorrer left his watch to be cleaned. His 10 year old son traded the broken watch for a stout goat, then the boy traded the goat for a barrel. The father asks who saw the watch and the police search for the boy with the watch.
An epidemic of typhoidal character has broken out in a Lancashire village of about five hundred. One hundred fifty people fell ill. The source was milk from a sick cow. London outbreaks have been linked to improper utensil washing in impure water.
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