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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1880
Page
6
A speaker recalls burying friends with a murderer's past and asks if they will return as phantoms or remain distant. The poem contemplates loss, guilt, and the ache of memories as autumn deepens, ending with a plea for a distant God to keep the dead away.
In a frigid Colorado mining camp on the Sierra Madre frontier, the Hermit, a quiet, drinking-free loner, nurses illness while caretaken by the rough crew. A letter reveals his long estrangement from Alice Harmer, the daughter he hoped to reclaim, ending with the shocking claim that the Hermit is Alice’s father.
A farmer’s note explains a method to prevent lime buildup in iron tea kettles. Boil oak bark in a new kettle to form a tannate coating that resists lime, then reboil if old lime remains. Caution advised to avoid overheating. Shells of clams may also deter lime formation.
Albany reporter recounts Assemblyman Wren describing how he drew on John Wilkes Booth on the morning Lincoln was killed. Wren narrates his Richmond theater links with Booth, the White House visit, a near duel over secession talk, and his later weaponless stance. He says the pistol moment led him to oppose concealed weapons laws.
Old hunter Jerry Greening recounts a bear encounter near Rattlesnake Creek with his 17 year old son Case. The tale features a wax, a pepper box, a 550 pound bear, a yeller hound that climbs a tree, and a humorous rescue after Case uses the pepper-box to frighten the beast.
A collection of light verses quips and observations on life love work and social manners. It includes jokes about lawyers spouses laborers and a Paris dining anecdote. Humorous verses include fall poetry about a banana mishap and a father awaiting twins named Kate and Dupli Kate.
In Squaw Lake, high in the Siskiyous, a grassy island rose sixteen feet after the lake was dammed to form a reservoir. The decay of vegetation forms the core, possibly from uprooted trees, anchoring the floating land as visitors watch the change in elevation.
Scientific American notes a wave of glucose production from corn across the West with new factories, including a Chicago plant planned to process 20 000 bushels daily. One bushel yields 30 pounds of glucose or 3 gallons of soup. price cited 2 cents per pound, coin selling at 40 cents per bushel.
A Chicago Ledger poem depicts a hospital besieged by fever and pestilence. The silver bell tolls hourly as death and fever claim many, while sisters mourn and the city withdraws. After weeks of silence the bells ring again over the Sisters' Hospital.
A boy named Charlie Hill in Independence Missouri armed himself with a revolver after reading dime literature and drove burglars from a store he slept in, leaving with only wounds to show for the confrontation.
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