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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1882
Page
3
Local Osceola items cover sales ads, shop notices, and community updates. Mentions include shoe sellers, dress goods, jewelry parlor, farm equipment, and a shooting club trip to York with light humor about baggage. Community events, church notices, and political talk on suffrage appear amid classifieds.
Farmers are urged to note a proposal by F. M. Cox and Wm. F. Lintos to erect two first-class molasses factories two miles east and four and a half miles south of Shelby if the cane crop justifies it, by August 25, 1832.
Last evening an accident at Platte precinct took the life of Charlie Wisely, eight year old son of H. H. Wisely. The mother left the children at home and went to a neighbor’s. the older brother handled a loaded gun and it discharged, blowing off the top of the boy’s head. The family mourns a needless loss blamed on careless handling of firearms.
The seven year old daughter of John Herrman died in a horrific fire incident after clothes caught during a neighbor’s corn stalk burn. Her brother alerted the father as she burned severely, and she died before reaching the house. The mother’s health has been affected by the tragedy. Community sympathy pours in.
Messrs Mickey Nance and Merrill bankers plan a two story 25 by 58 foot bank building with an octagon entrance on the northwest corner. The project includes a banking room of 830 by 28 feet clear, private offices, vaults, and a second floor of offices. Work to start about May 1, designed by T M Bell.
Quiet in the Burg as W B McCartney moves his family to the rear of his restaurant and J L Johnson adds a kitchen to his dwelling. The band boys played Saturday night and will soon offer more music. A Lincoln reception for Gen Merrill drew mixed reactions from G A R members.
A Wednesday evening supper organized by the Aid Society of the M 12 Church and town gentlemen raised about $30 for expenses with no church bias. The event drew Osceola’s largest crowd in the church, heard remarks by Hon. J. H. Mickey and O. W. Kyle, and featured caterers Spain and Sarrer. Gross receipts reached about $108, net $40.
The Osceola M E Church event titled The Suffering Men’s Supper drew an overflow crowd last Wednesday. Gentlemen hosted a grand program with a lively reception, engaging the audience from the start and delivering an evening of notable enjoyment for all attendees.
A lively Osceola event featured a welcoming address by Lawyer Kyle, with women enjoying a celebratory evening. Dishes clattered from the kitchen as white helmeted servers tended a banquet of oysters, game, fruits, nuts, pastries, tea and coffee, with no time for music or speeches. organizers praised the “suffering” men tending dishes and babies.
An editorial reflecting on the teacher's influence within the classroom and the broader impact on students. It argues teachers must embody culture and Christian principles, noting appearance, manners, grammar, and everyday kindness shape pupils' morals and minds. A. B. C.
Three Prussian gentlemen Gert Pheled Joseph Schiller and J Eichhof arrived in Shelby last week direct from Germany They are well to do and likely to be welcome additions to the community. A number of others are expected soon. Dunning intends to buy heavy stock of goods next week in the East and to expand grain and dry goods dealings in Shelby Neb. The town notes new firms and stock arrivals including Dunning Co and a large dry goods stock. A brood mare for sale and several local business updates follow.
Parker's Hair Balsam is praised as a safe hair restorer made from harmless materfall. The product is portrayed as adaptable to fading and falling hair needs and described as elegant and reliable in its performance.
Advertises payment for live pigeons with calls to deliver to Osceola. Mentions high market price and urges pigeon owners to contact the seller. Includes a nonsensical line “28 21 for Woops.”
Correspondents are urged to condense their reports to the essentials. Use short words and brief sentences to fit the space and preserve key facts, names, places, and dates.
Public notice announces Dr F Saxenberger moving from Shelby to Osceola to treat illnesses day and night with a focus on female diseases epilepsy and related disorders. Call at Auer's Restaurant Osceola Neb. Milligan's Condition powders available at Snider Baum's drug store Osceola for 3 lbs at $1.00. tested and satisfactory.
Dr. Curry argues that women must have teaching aptitude and moral responsibility before joining teaching. The state bears the duty to educate children through a strong public system. He advocates normal schools to raise efficiency and prevent waste from unskilled teachers.
A promissory note for twenty five dollars given by A Y and J J Burley to W J Brigham was lost near Shelby along with a small amount of money. A suitable reward will be paid to the finder who returns the property to Sam Snell in Osceola or to the undersigned W J Brigham.
The piece argues children need healthy bodies more than book learning. It asserts health, vigor, digestion, and rosy cheeks come from good food and outdoor muscular exercise, especially walking. It condemns nerves and illness and calls for vigorous American children to build a strong nation.
A. E. L. A. Beltzer on East Side Square offers a full line of staple and fancy groceries. California dried peaches plums and pears, honey in comb, and winter apples by the barrel. Minneapolis winter wheat flour and other flour brands sold cheap for cash. Buckwheat flour always on hand.
Hol Aistott improves his building and Mr Youmans occupies a new structure in the Retropolis of Eastern Polk. The Shelby Independent notes scarce news with editorial take on recent Sundays. Three carloads of corn and produce were sent to Denver to Metcalf and Dunning yesterday. Doc Inks named Shelby’s Nimrod champion, though a shoot yielded few kills as ammunition was left behind.
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