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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1906
Page
7
A Washington Star quote likens statesmanship to a garden with diverse flowers. It notes room for all kinds of intellect and appearance, praising the blend of thoughtful effort and public appeal while warning against those who toil little but pose. It argues leaders should be both capable and aesthetically pleasing to inspire trust.
Grandpa Harding lends relative Ethel and Billy Dawson money to survive a banking boom collapse. The couple austerely saves, works, and sends back weekly payments while Billy earns ten dollars weekly in the city. After months of frugal sacrifice, a golden wedding unfolds as the trio reconciles the debt with pride and a promotion for Billy.
A study by Professor C. Doelter explains that lava melt requires about 1600 degrees Fahrenheit deep underground. Primary magma reservoirs lie under high pressure far below the crust, with eruptions driven by magma movement and gas release as it nears cooler rock.
A humorist recalls Mark Twain as a river pilot. The legend says he reported to his superior that his boat left at 7 20 and he arrived at one wharf at 7 35 yet could not catch it. The anecdote highlights Twain finding clever excuses.
A fragment shows dialogue between Mrs. Gramercy and Mrs. Park debating moving to a residence to obtain a divorce and evade taxes. The exchange hints at social pressures and financial manipulation within a custody context.
Mrs. L. Hinde wife of a British East Africa subcommissioner recounts a safari near the Uganda railway where man eating lions hunted the party. After her husband killed two lions the lions pursued her as she fled aided by a rhino and native gunbearers fled. she reached camp unharmed though her husband faced danger. The report appears from Biakwood's Magazine.
A Maryland eastern shore general store proprietor, illiterate, reads a slate backward and mistakes a grindstone for cheese, jokingly correcting the misread number after noting a dot over the letter i.
The artist Whistler and a friend walk along the Embankment on a starry night. Whistler, moodily discontent, finds fault with urban sights while his companion points to beauty in the scene. He concedes stars are fine but quips there are too many of them.
A composite of aged verse pieces notes perseverance against fate and the ache for days gone by. It references enduring effort and hopeful turns after hardship, and includes lines recalling rivers, toil, and the elegy of lost loved ones.
The piece extols dust as both foe and friend, explaining how dust enables daylight, sunsets, and moonlight by reflecting sunlight. It cites measurements by John Aitkin of Falkirk and Royal Society of Edinburgh members counting millions of dust particles per cubic inch in air from Glasgow, Pittsburg, and near their hall.
A playful exchange from the Baltimore American recalls a ball where a sister asks about dancing with Miss Flirt and a brother replies only once they sat out in the Conservatory. The item carries a light social note and a quirky closing remark.
August Miller a Stanton county farmer shot his father in law Fred Hohneke, his wife, and Hohneke's wife in Winside area. He wounded the father in law and mother in law, wife shot in the left side. Miller fled on a borrowed horse as deputies and armed residents pursued. Wounded victims remained alive though critical. Miller's escape and danger to capture sparked a manhunt.
A chicken on Mrs Hubbard's Cook farm yielded a grain sized piece of gold after dressing a chicken. A local jeweler confirmed the nugget as gold. In Beatrice, gold traces were found in gravel on Ed Dole's property at Fifth and Hoyt, tested by K C Kiions indicating pyrite associated gold.
Norfolk Nebraska reports the murder trial of Myron Irwin for the 1905 killing of Bob Cearns near Badger along the Boyd Holt county line. The case, already ripe from a prior second degree verdict, centers on a quarrel starting at Butte and a stabbing after crossing the Niobrara river. Cearns died within a half hour from two wounds, one to the heart and one to the stomach.
Nick Lackas, a prominent Allen precinct farmer, reports an attack on his hogs. Eight hogs were found dead or dying the next morning, some with neck cuts and flesh sliced from legs, suggesting deliberate harm.
Postmaster General Cortelyou warns Speaker Cannon that supplying all records to the House would harm public interest and hinder the People’s United States Bank of St. Louis fraud case. He notes such disclosure could interfere with the government suit and the department’s fraud order against the bank.
Judge McPherson in the United States circuit court gave the jury a charge in the embezzlement trial of George Philler Brock former cashier of the Doylestown National Bank indicted for misappropriating about 84000 of bank funds. Henry Lear his brother in law and former president of the mots aves were convicted on similar charges.
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