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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1880
Page
2
The piece weaves a twilight scene from rural life in WaKeeny Kansas. It contrasts the weary farmer and his wife with a grand ball in the mansion, then shifts to a sobering cottage where a pale woman and starved children suffer. Dawn and sunrise herald a new day as farmers go to work and the nation debates labor and plenty.
In Chicago Ledger style a noblewoman Mabel Hinton reclines in sorrow as she confesses love to Capt. Frank Thornton on a moonlit colonnade. He reveals a hidden longing and a barrier built by past deceptions that tears them apart. After a series of separations and a deathbed, Mabel endures confinement and loss before a reunion heals their broken lives.
The Delphi Journal notes Elizabeth Smith of Delphi dying at 93. She belonged to a proud aristocratic family and was a schoolmate of James Buchanan. A betrothal to be the White House mistress was broken by a solemn pledge never to marry, faithfully kept.
A Washington letter notes public approval for a pension bill honoring Civil War era servants with fifty years in federal work. It profiles long-serving officials from the Post Office and State Department, including Roswell Beardsley in New York 1828, William Hunter in Rhode Island 1829, Edward Stabler 1830, Isaac Bassett in Massachusetts 1831, and others with careers spanning decades. It highlights Bassett plans to publish memoirs and records the era’s steadfast clerical careers. The closing line recalls a dove and a Bible verse reference.
The article discusses the high cost of iron and iron tools and its impact on medieval farming. It notes iron was worth 2d per pound, later equivalent to over 2s per pound in modern terms, and traces smelting advances before mid Elizabethan rule with cast iron used for heavy ordnance. It compares price ranges of wrought iron across centuries and links agricultural progress to broader mechanical innovations.
A peasant farmer in Roumelia marries a young gypsy girl despite warnings from her tribe. On their wedding night gypsy youths ambush him, bind him to a plank, and saw him in two after strangling his wife. the tribe flees and authorities have not captured the culprits.
The Atheneum notes annual world silver production at not less than 6,000,000 pounds troy valued above £16,000,000 and gold at more than 600,000 pounds troy valued not less than £28,000,000. It stresses vast labor in deep mining and washing alluvial deposits, plus quartz reef exploration, and the need for skilled metallurgists to render the metals usable.
During a Sunday service at the Church of the Advent in Boston a dove entered through an open skylight and perched near the organ. The hymnals filled the air as a choir of about forty men sang, creating what was described as perhaps the grandest service ever held there.
The article reviews prevailing fashions including pleated double kilts for foulards and wool dresses, revived hoods on capes and long gowns, narrow gathered ruffles on Paris dresses, and gay cottons for Newport and Saratoga. It notes luxe fabrics like cretonne, satin, and muslin embroidery, yachting dresses of wool bunting, and blue foulards with red accents. It also covers inexpensive textiles such as beige de santa flannel and zephyr whites for summer dresses, and outlines coat and shawl styling details for summer coats and polonaises with lace and cashmere pieces.
An aging draft horse, once used to lift dirt, lived out nearly twenty years in a pasture. Daily he began tracing circles at dawn, a curious habit that puzzled onlookers. The tale underscores how early habits shape an adult’s fate, for good or ill.
A St Louis man dubbed the boss gormandizer of the world is described for rivaling Gargantua. He reportedly ate thirty quail in thirty days with a final extra quail, twelve oysters with sugar, twenty four goose eggs, thirty six sugared oysters, two mince pies with castor oil, and an eight pound seven ounce goose stuffed with oysters in twenty one minutes, followed by bread and other foods and a hearty dinner an hour later.
The largest reported cotton yield per acre comes from T C Warthen of Washington county Georgia in 1873. He won a premium from the Georgia State Agricultural Society by gathering 6891 pounds of seed cotton yielding 2096 pounds of lint about four bales. Spacing left one stalk per hill and rows checked at three feet to yield 4900 stalks per acre.
A playful verse traces ages and numbers through imagined seasons and fortunes. The speaker recalls growing up and pairing with another as years pass, noting amounts of money and counting life’s cycles as time and love intertwine.
A collage of quips and anecdotes covers theater bailiffs, leap year romance, fashion bangs named Diana locks, patent medicine signs, color blind cows, a railway girl, a music store kiss miscue, a courtroom poker of 15 pence, a Louisiana darky ditty, and a Louisiana tale of big brothers. The piece mixes humor with social caricature and regional speech.
A mother returning from a country visit near Marseilles hides her eight year old son Adolphe Thiers under a thick shawl in a peach basket. At the city gates a customs officer chases the donkey suspecting smuggling and aims to probe the basket. The mother cries out and saves the child from discovery.
The author Thoatas Bareex Aupricu drafts stories in multiple passes prior to publication, ensuring revision and polish before printing.
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