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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1915
Page
4
A garbled note outlines support for widows and the poor, mentioning help for aging residents and earnings saved for a cause. It refers to a periodical production and a plan to assist middle aged individuals in starting businesses, with scattered mentions of people and places.
Notice of sale under a District Court partition order in Polk County Nebraska. Referee J W Filgalan will sell the described real estate at Osceola courthouse steps on June 12 1915 at 1 PM in parcels or in gross for cash. Property includes portions of Section 21 Township 14 Range 2 west. Dated May 1915.
Osceola city officials adopt a detailed budget plan for the new fiscal year ending May 4 1916. The measure itemizes revenue and expenditures including fire protection street lighting officers salaries printing street maintenance water works and library costs with bonds interest and sinking funds. A public meeting is set for June 2 at 7 00 p m to pass the appropriation bill.
In pursuance of a District Court order dated April 29 1915 in Polk County Nebraska the land of the plaintiff John Koezer versus Helen Thompson et al will be sold by referee at the south front door of the Court House Osceola Nebraska on June 1 1915 at 2 PM for cash. The property is the north half of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 3 township 15 range 2 west of the 6th P M. The sale may be in whole or in parcels and will remain open one hour. S A Snider sale referee Mills and Steele attorneys.
The age of a horse can be judged by the teeth. A hollow on the upper surface of the incisors indicates a young tooth. As wear progresses in all horses, the tooth shows regular wearing patterns, becoming a general criterion of age.
The piece surveys Russian literature and Slav culture, noting Dostoyevsky as a national author and exploring themes in The Brothers Karamazov, including patricide and motive. It contrasts Slavic temperament with Anglo-Saxon and French character, and ends with an obituary note about Joseph Funkhouser of Barnard Kansas, a Grand Army veteran.
Local items discuss visits, business moves, and community happenings in Osceola and nearby towns. People travel to Lincoln, Omaha, and Columbus. new patients enter hospitals. a baby is born. bands provide concerts. and the Commercial Club elects officers. Community news highlights residents, property, and local industry updates.
Mrs E C Shumaker visits Linwood relatives. Mrs C W Bowlby travels from Omuhba to see kin and friends. Francis M Echols of Columbus guests at the Charles Wooster home. Minerva Towslee journeys to Watertown to visit her son Lou. Frank Sprague and family come from Central City. Mr and Mrs Cash Poore visit George Merrill's home from Columbus. Charles Wooster marks his 72nd birthday after arriving into the world. Lucille Davis and Lucile Finley visit P C Himebaugh families from Schuyler. Mrs Josephine Shumaker of Fremont visits EH Shumaker in town. Olive Menbeth departs for Columbus to train high school pupils in commence monk work.
In the County Court of Polk Nebraska a petition to appoint Annie E Thompson or other suitable person as administrator of the estate of William T Thompson deceased was filed. Hearing set for May 29 1915 at 10:00 AM. Dated May 7 1915. (Seal) F H Ball County Judge.
Wageet notes Peckhat was very drunk today while Mrs Nogget remarks he lost his wife last week. Catholic Standard and Times records the exchange as a social aside reflecting on public behavior.
The western detective H. X K. Adair calls a Baltimore crook case an eye for commerce, noting an octogenarian swindled of $9,000 by a girl. He contrasts old sword versus new check as signs of a commercial age.
Josef Baler a glasscutter from Munich has assembled a timepiece with every wheel screw frame and all three covers made of glass after years of patient toil.
The Invalids Pension Assn. seeks 500 subscriptions to The Ladies Home Journal The Saturday Evening Post and The Country Gentleman at 150 each month through April 30 to equal last year's business and turn 5000 earned three years ago into pension funds totaling 7000. Your order supports monthly pensions for many invalids with no salaries. Send renewals to Gordon The Magazine Man in Cmata Retr.
Heavily discounted household furnishings offered as the owner plans an eastern move. Items include 6 golden oak dining chairs, a leather rocker, library table, Singer sewing machine, chests, beds, bookcases, rugs, and more at the East Side square location.
In 1978 a playful exchange reveals wedding anniversary plans. The Bride lists milestones: silver for year one, gold for year three, diamond for year five, and radium for year ten, while conceding the comic fear of not being divorced by then.
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