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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
3
A brief, stylized gag unfolds with a prisoner and judge characters in a playful exchange. The prisoner challenges a judge owl about the number of swallows, provoking a quick, humorous reply about a springing bird.
Former Nebraska governor James J Boyd died at his Omaha residence after years of ill health dating back to old age. Born in Ireland in 1834 he emigrated with his family to the United States in 1844 and later helped shape early Omaha as a carpenter and politician. He survived by three children and brothers, and had recently mourned Governor Thayer.
A note pinned to a log along the Missouri River in Dakota City Nebraska requests notification to Mrs. Geo Stewart of Cleveland Ohio about the writer's death by self harm dated April 21 1906. The fragment appears amid humorous exchanges as the Cleveland Leader references it as perhaps a joke or real message.
In Chicago John Alexander Dowie stood unsteady before about two thousand five hundred worshippers at Zion tabernacle and challenged accusers to rise and speak. He denied charges citing his wife and son’s alleged mistreatment and recalled his revolt against Voliva as he vowed to stay in retirement at Shiloh house until court decisions on injunctions are made.
St. Petersburg reports confirm nothing solid on Premier Witte's retirement though widespread talk suggests the emperor aims to realign the cabinet with constitutional ministers. Durnovo may also resign as agrarian tensions rise and parliamentary sessions loom amid speculation of a reactionary shift.
Diplomatic tension sharpens as Vice President Gomez declines to receive Dr Herrera in Caracas delaying a treaty on river navigation and frontier commerce. Officials cite the break as a possible gambit against Colombia and the United States, with past refusals fueling the standoff.
Dr Brigham of Fitchburg Mass praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as efficacious for female difficulties and endorses its reliability. The letter notes his daughters benefited and urges women to seek Mrs Pinkham's free guidance in Lynn Massachusetts for female ailments.
Frank Smith alleged slayer of Policeman Hanlon of Oregon City fired on Sheriff J. S. Shaver of Clackamas county fatally wounding him and seriously wounding Captain O. D. Henderson of company D Oregon national guard. An escaped Portland city jail prisoner was also involved in the confrontation.
The British steamer Haversham Grange reports a collision in the Straits of Malacca with the Chinese steamer Bentong. Bentong sank with seventy one survivors and thirty of the one hundred one Chinese aboard drowned. The Haversham Grange reached Singapore with a flooded forepeak after the incident.
The Chicago Iroquois Theatre company is placed in the hands of a receiver in Jersey City New York after admitting no assets and facing 2 million dollars in damage suits from the 1903 theater fire. Merchandise creditors were paid from proceeds of selling the property to the Metropolitan Theater company.
Coroner Walsh warned the death list will grow after the quake with estimates from one thousand to fifteen hundred. In the fish market district workers perished as debris blocked escapes and rescue efforts. A new tremor was felt on the peninsula though no damage was reported and optimism rose about $200 million for San Francisco rehabilitation sourced from eastern and foreign capital.
A printed list shows government homesteads with exact locations and prices for 200,000 acres of rich Colorado and Nebraska lands plus maps and photos. The Sterling Investment Co lists free materials and contact details at 205 Front Street in Sterling Colorado.
Samuel Geller, 30, of Brooklyn, described as alleged leader of a Greater New York gang, received a one year penitentiary term after being charged with poisoning seven horses with arsenic across the last five years.
Reports from the Mount Vesuvius region describe extensive mudslide damage after heavy rains. Floods swept across towns killing livestock and forcing residents to escape through windows in Pacciano, a town of 800 inhabitants.
In Kearney Nebraska thirteen year old Reilly Irvine, employed as a porter in Youngs barber shop, was seriously burned when gasoline spilled while filling a stove holder. Hospital reports say burns are not as deep as feared and he is progressing well.
The city hall is condemned as dangerous to occupant health and must be vacated at once. Chief Sanitary Inspector Hedrick noted that recent demolition of the adjoining county building caused wall settlement and disjointed plumbing, prompting the order.
A man about twenty to twenty three years old was found floating in the Missouri river. He was shoeless, hatless, smoothly shaved, with a broken head and clothing tied around his head. A note pinned to a log claimed to identify him and requested notification for Mrs G W Stewart of Dakota City Nebraska. Fred Evan discovered the body and reported it in good preservation.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a non alcohol tonic that purges blood humors, strengthens the body, and supports brain and nerve vitality. It claims endorsements from medical writers, offers free literature, and notes other products like Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and the Common Sense Medical Adviser. The piece also includes a set of miscellaneous notes on red letter days, a Peterhof dining device, a Kansas stove polish accident, Mrs. MacClean's millinery omen, Fiji whale tooth coinage, and a North Attleboro wedding-day police joke with a fine.
Abilene Kansas resident J Lightner describes years of backache gravel and痛ful urination from kidney trouble. He credits Deans Kidney Pills with relief and notes the product sold nationwide for 50 cents a box by Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. The 1854 half dollar mention appears as an odd note with no premium value.
Mary Bagguley of 117 Peach street Syracuse writes of her sister’s 24 year side ache from female trouble. She says Wine of Cardui made her well and calls Cardui a godsend. Cardui is sold by druggists for $1.00 and is presented as a safe reliable remedy.
Deafness cannot be cured by local applications. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh. The ad offers to pay one hundred dollars for any deathbed case cured or not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes other products from F J Chenry & Co Toledo Ohio.
Community items include adoptions from the New Children's Home, a move to form the Harvard Ware Company, deportation of Emma Noetzelmann to Baltimore, a near fatal fall by Charles Gimes, reports of horse theft and recovery, rising Cuming county farming society membership, mental health care moves for A Smith, a new cigar shop by Wyatt & Gray, a West Point dry goods store rest and improvements, temperance opposition to saloons, Auburn library ordinance and a Carnegie library grant with ground donated by Dr S W McGrew, and immediate steps to organize the library board.
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