19 May 1881
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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1881
Page
1
Fragmentary text describes a Sabbath event at a location named Ula on with unclear details about a pastor and activities. No concrete names, dates, or outcomes are readable. Further readable content is needed for a precise card.
Fragmented OCR text references a meeting notice involving HARA Reewate COT 7 and a commissioner J.B. Mires KL Hof, inviting attendance and outlining rules for a first Saturday session. Details are unclear due to garbled wording and partial names.
The Burlington Route offers through cars from southern Nebraska to Chicago with a ten minute connection at Pacific Junction and rapid connections to the East Southeast and North. Sleeper berths can be reserved from Lincoln to the Missouri River and Chicago, with Pullman sleepers operating regularly from Lincoln and Missouri River to St Louis.
The notice promotes travel to the Southeast with connections at Peoria to the T P W and other lines serving Indianapolis Cincinnati Columbus central and Southern Ohio Kentucky Southern Indiana. It highlights dining cars and square meals at 75 cents and urges choosing the B M Line for safety comfort and speed.
A Fremont boy recovered twenty five dollars in bills and promptly handed them to the owner, a small act noted in local news. The incident highlights honesty among youth amid everyday town life.
Sir Edward Thornton confirmed plans to travel to Russia as Britain’s new minister. The report notes government cabinet changes since the war and lists other contemporaneous events including political rallies and a major meat illness scare in Iowa.
Reports describe Joseph Slawell killing his brother in Swainaborough Georgia after a dispute with his wife. Texas and Pacific Railroad seeks federal troops to protect workers at the western terminus from a lawless gang. A Lowell vault yields a decomposed woman found after years sealed behind Appleton Street dwellings. Near Guttenburg New Jersey a German woman is found murdered in a bushes clump with clear signs of a violent struggle. Rutland Wisconsin records an apparent matricide later attempted suicide as the suspect fights for life and authorities weigh the motive and fate.
Edward Trickett sails to the United States and will lodge at Saratoga. A Rome report warns of an assassination plot against the Italian king, watched by police. Gladstone may join the Lords after the land bill. Puck cites Earl Ayford or Earl Hawarden as titles. In Mexico City a banquet for General Grant drew 150 guests including Cabinet members and many officials. Austria unites Crown Prince Rudolph and Princess Stephanie on May 10. Editor Alexander Jonas of the New York Volks Zeitung is detained in Dresden. he seeks redress from the U S ambassador. Russia reports a nobleman linked to the czar’s murder and the Little Garden mine plot. Higsiter is also arrested. Germany opens an electric Berlin to Lichterfield line. Canada’s Marquis of Lorne plans to retire as governor general after Manitoba journey, citing strained ties with the Gladstone ministry.
Washington reports orders from the postoffice department to halt steam at mail service on several southern and southwestern routes. Projected government savings could reach about 75000 yearly. Other items note Senate confirmations for Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and Illinois posts, and a Seminole scouts incident near Pecos with casualties and captives.
A May 5 letter from Camp Warte River Colorado analyzes circulating rumors of Indian unrest near the White River Utes. The writer discounts Colorow threats, notes Wash’s pacific stance, and suggests a possible defensive position near Grand Mesa and Roan Creek, awaiting orders and reinforcements.
A Cincinnati physician notes a singular trichine case in fish but warns fish, seafood, and even birds can harbor parasites. The piece argues parasites are common, urges moderation in consumption, and cautions against overindulgence as a public health stance.
The text extols the curative powers of Day's Kidney Pad and links health improvement to wealth. It then quotes Plutarch on virtue and risk, followed by a fable-like remark about speaking on familiar topics and presenting entertainment to a deep pitcher from which only a long-billed fowl could feed.
A quoted critique of male prejudice about women and health follows with praise for women perceived intelligence in choosing Hop Bitters to keep families healthy. The piece argues such views are unfounded and highlights cost efficiency in maintaining perpetual family health.
Mr. Bonvard details the Mississippi’s unique, sinuous bends and cut-offs that reshape its bed. He describes how eddies form sandbars where cottonwood trees sprout yearly, progressively closing old channels and creating lake-like remnants back in the forest.
A richly dressed woman in the south of England converses with a pale aristocrat as Ethelberta de Courcey endures a painful corn. Percy Montrose, her wedded-forbidden love, fears the social gulf between them while the pair’s intense passion unsettles their fragile future.
In a Montrose tale, two lovers Ethelberta and Percy play a tense croquet game. A garter mishap ruins the moment and Ethelberta crashes the swing, hits the corn, and spares no word to Percy. Myrtle returns home and ultimately marries Percy after the episode.
The wedding season on Fifth Avenue and surroundings is at full bloom with lavish parties and high outlays. Whitelaw Reid’s marriage to D O Mills's daughter is noted among the week’s events, signaling social and journalistic ascent and hints of powerful patronage in New York media circles.
The preacher Robert Collyer recounts an angelic visit tale from a Western trip. He recalls leaving his pulpit, talking of his mother, and returning home to find his wife on the stairs with a telegram announcing his mother's death at midnight.
A compact saying warns that one small leak can ruin a ship and a sloppy kitchen spoils meals, underscoring diligence at home and in work.
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