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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1883
Page
4
A lyrical untitled poem recounts a male speaker's adoration of Jeannette’s hair, eyes, lips, and beauty. He recalls locking in her golden brown hair in a silken snare while revealing longing and sorrow across the desolate years. The piece ends with tears over a gravestone.
In a San Francisco Call tale, Zinc Barnes recalls Parson Talbot's scam by old miner Smally, who loses trust and gold to a quartz deal. Two young men, Henry and Frank, scheme with Wells Fargo funds to recover the affair, leading to a staged repayment to Talbot and a moral reckoning at Smally's Spur mining camp.
Denver correspondent chronicles a 217 foot per mile incline on the Veta Pass route, where two locomotives labor up the hillside under red furnace glare and spiraling smoke. The scene juxtaposes the curve and bridge with the monumental effort, the train seeming a slow meteor.
A fragment recalls a servant girl saved by St. Jacobs Oil after a fall and a Goshen captain injured by a boiler explosion credited to the same remedy. The note ends with reflections on knowledge and a quip about a bull movement at fly time.
A satirical piece praising an incubator for infants, citing Dr. Tavenier in France. It describes a glass‑slid box kept at 86 degrees, where babies live six months in seclusion, gaining weight and mobility with no nurse or exhibition. It contrasts serene outcomes with conventional parental duties and public scrutiny.
In a Washington Capital note the tale recalls Charles Francis Adams aiding an American student in Oxford whose assets were eight decades of trousers. The piece highlights M. W. Nazeltine, a gifted NY Sun writer earning 175 dollars weekly, famed for sharp literary essays and political leaders.
A mother, directed verbally by a physician, gave chlorate of potash as an internal medicine instead of a gargle, causing the death of a fourteen year old girl. The case urges doctors to write directions to avoid fatal misinterpretation and warns against self prescribed medicines.
The markets show barley 68 to 94 cents, corn 88 cents in Omaha and 53 to 54 cents in Chicago, oats 3 to 3.5 cents, flour and butter prices, and livestock quotes including cattle around 6 to 7 dollars, hogs 6.50 to 7.50, with eggs, apples, oranges, and other farm goods listed. The section includes advice about vermin control for chickens and a note urging active patience and Romania.
A public notice discusses distrust of extraordinary claims and asserts the need for proof. It frames skepticism as a hedge against fraud and introduces a forthcoming card intended to address doubts about numerous statements in the press. The text emphasizes merit over spurious claims and signals formal verification.
A collage of medical remedy pitches and consumer wares. Prominent items include Allen's Lung Balsam for coughs and croup, Caswell, Lazar cod liver oil, and Joniper soap treatments. Also advertised are Samaritan Nervine, Thomas' Electric Oil, Phase's Hoxty, Pike's Toothache Drops, Hop Bitters, and Carboline deodorized petroleum.
The letter offers $5,000 to anyone who can disprove or prove false any cure advertised as due to Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. It cites testimonials from Elder James S. Prescott and W. E. Sanford as proof of extraordinary results and urges skepticism as absurd.
Travel notices boast the Grand Union Hotel opposite Central Depot with 000 elegant rooms and a European plan, plus horse cars and elevated railroads. Also mentions Metropolitan Hotel in Omaha, and various advertisements for health devices, complexion powders, salves, and a cigarette of unsolicited medical claims.
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