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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1907
Page
2
The Edison village adopts a new city manual and appoints a treasurer. Humboldt reports two diphtheria cases and quarantine actions while Stella records two saloon licenses for the year. Local officials note resignations and public celebrations as communities prepare for summer events.
In Mrs Alec Weedle’s Through Finland In Carts a vegetarian traveler faces culinary excess as an innkeeper serves eggs cucumbers stewed fruit milk and bread to grandpa who had declared a vegetarian diet. The scene illustrates cultural misreadings and humor of travel in Rome like settings.
The article praises Queen Alexandra as a skilled botanist and collector whoseSandringham horticultural estate thrives with over 200 feet of glass houses for violets and more than 20 000 roses. It tours the gardens from Italian and Alpine sections to her own rose-clustered dairy and wild garden while noting her daily gathering of primroses for Queen Victoria.
Philip Burke claims alias Louis Ray Higgins and tells Sheriff Bauman in Fre ment Neb about the Copps murder at Rosalie. He describes firing a shotgun at midnight, binding the children, riding a mule seven miles, and wandering later while awaiting safe keeping. The confession includes a ready plea of guilty though memory gaps exist due to whiskey.
The page promotes Garfield Tea as a herbal laxative under the Pure Wood and Drugs Law, promising health benefits and purified blood. It advertises ready made garments with self color matching buttons, mentions Allen's Foot-Ease samples, and includes assorted notes on fashion, kitchen tips, and various world facts from the era.
A miscellaneous roundup notes WER Sites New York's claim of thirty nine New Jersey suburbs. Hamburg reportedly has a fire record unmatched globally. India’s exports rose 44145 percent in ten years with imports up 4814 percent. Britain surveys use large 45 by 30 inch camera plates. Laue monastery in Thibet sits 17000 feet up as the highest inhabited place. J P Nannetti is a Dublin M P and Freeman's Journal foreman. Sutherland estate stands at 730300 acres. Lili Lehmann is Robert Chambers’ granddaughter and Rudolph Lehmann is a painter. M Rouvier plans a Paris daily backed by a bank. England registers ships rising over 0.75 million tons. A Manitoba farmer jokes about marriage via Winnipeg paper. Dr Philip Rees travels 2000 miles to act as vest man in Hankow marriage. Agriculture saves 685 million dollars in crop costs over fifty years with modern tools.
Burke, brought to Fremont from Hooper by Sheriff Bauman and Marshal Crawford, described the events and named Copple as the liquor source. He appeared numb and stiff from rheumatism and an injured foot, asked to contact his mother Cora Fay Higgins of Denver, and faced possible transfer to Omaha for safekeeping. A $590 reward was reported in Thurston county amid neighbor talks of lynching.
China denounces Japan for three years of unkept promises to restore property seized during wartime. Recovery appears unlikely for government and private assets in Manchuria, taken without compensation under the pretense of China failing neutrality. Russia also holds and leases much of the seized property in the region.
In 1866 Sir John Herschel, aged 74, recalls a Cape observation of a star bursting to first or second magnitude. He notes a parallel event in 1835 and specifies August 16 at 1 a.m. as the moment. Sir Henry Roscoe recounts the memory in his autobiography.
A premature explosion at Camp 21 2 near Marion New York on the South and Western railroad killed fourteen men with eight bodies recovered. Foreman Kidd died in a mangled state. The next day Walking Boss Kli and Charles Hale went to quiet Jim and William Anderton. Anderson fired killing Kidd. Hale then killed Anderson. Hale and five others are under arrest at Marion charged with murder.
A tornado overturned a farm house south of Parker, causing a fire that burned the bed clothes and resulted in the wife and young son of Ole Langstead dying. The husband, Ole Langstead, was seriously injured.
A Philadelphia Press exchange notes a man known for punctual dinner at twelve now works for a firm and is said to still lunch promptly at noon. The dialog contrasts prior methodical routines with current employment status.
Mrs. Wilson, wife of George Wilson, died after being fatally burned at the family home in Vesta Neb eight miles west of Tecumseh A gasoline back of the kitchen stove exploded igniting her clothing She ran to the yard where Mr Wilson doused the flames with water the next morning she passed away
A girl explains why travel appeals to her with the idea of sending a wide range of postcards to friends. The comment reflects youthful curiosity about distant places and the social joy of sharing experiences.
A girl in a choir holds a job as a singer and demands a three dollar monthly salary. The piece highlights the modest pay and the value of her performance in the choir.
President Cabrera of Guatemala expresses willingness to have General Lima tried in Guatemala for alleged complicity in General Barillas assassination. He also says he is willing to surrender Col Onforo Bone, described as an alleged accomplice, to Mexico.
A Cleveland grocer reports many customers improved by ditching coffee for Postum Food Coffee. He recalls personal nerves and appetite improving after two years, and urges others with nervousness or stomach troubles to switch. Read The Road to Weville in packets.
President Finley of the Southern railway urged the American Cotton Manufacturers Association to expand southern transportation capacity. He warned state laws limiting railroad bonds threaten rail funding and hurting all business, noting railroads must maintain earnings to finance new facilities. Congressman Burleson and Arthur H. Lowe attended the Philadelphia convention closing session.
Mutilated bodies of two men recovered from the Chicago River prompt a double murder investigation. One corpse remains unidentified while the other is identified as William Bishop, a sailor from Ogdensburg, New York. Bishop’s legs were severed above the knee. Both men disappeared over a month ago and police suspect foul play and disposal into the river.
Ed Love, the stage driver, reported that a wagon fire near Ash Meadows California destroyed $13000 in bank bills and $13000 in registered mail. The incident occurred when a cigar allegedly sparked the blaze, the wreckage seen near Greenwater after the driver fled the scene. The funds were destined for Greenwater Bank.
Two Chesapeake and Ohio railroad workers Leonard Barnes and Joseph Heacock, both of Covington, Kentucky, were crushed when a derailed freight car backed onto them near Maysville Kentucky. The accident involved a tool car used to assist in re-railing.
The Sioux and Chippewa of the White Earth Reservation Minnesota plan a peace powwow on June 14 15 and seek to invite Secretary Taft to deliver an address amid reports he will visit Minnesota around that time.
General Kuroki toured West Point during a steady rain that did not interrupt entertainment. The party watched cadets perform drills artillery practice and calisthenics on the parade ground.
The Baronesse de Massy, real name Anisia Louise de Massy of New York, was convicted of fatally shooting Gustav Simon, a Broadway merchant, and sentenced to seven years and five months in the state prison for women at Auburn.
The eccentric John Bryan of Xenia visits Columbus to study Missouri marriage law in the state library. He awaits a message from his sweetheart Miss Frederica Masher of Cincinnati to meet and marry in St Louis, praising Missouri laws as the best in the union.
The General Electric directors voted to offer stockholders $13,000,000 of five percent ten year debenture bonds. They may be converted after June 1, 1912 into company stock at par and redeemable after that date at 105 with stockholders’ rights of conversion. The subscription price and interest details are specified, and the bond issue equals one fifth of outstanding capital.
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