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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
1
A vintage ad touts cravenettes as stylish rainwear for gentlemen, noting they keep rain off and weather look good. It promotes prices from 7.50 to 15.00 and adds dry umbrellas from 1.00 to 3.00, with a brief pitch about quenching thirst with wearable items.
A catalog-style ad promotes ready to wear suits from $12.00 to $18.50 made by Schloss Bros. & Co. and other celebrated tailors. It argues mass-produced clothing matches custom work in finish and fit, with quality described as high and prices reasonable. The notice invites customers to view new Spring styles and models in stock.
Home Seeker's large colony tracts of irrigated land laid out in small tracts and town lots offered at wholesale cost to club members with a small service fee. Land bought this way costs about one third the ordinary price and payments start at $10 a month. income producing crops expected to nearly cover it. Western Farm Home Association, Room 69, 906 Broadway, Oakland, Calif.
10 acre farm features a nine room brick house with cemented cellar overhead, barn, hen house, coal and cob house, and other outbuildings. Includes a good cistern and well with pumps, fruit trees, a fenced garden, and ample hen parks. For details contact proprietor John G Rhodes or KF L Dunn in Osceola.
A rural Sioux Falls style column urges installing a sprinkler to combat dust from hot summers and poor water roads. It mix es humor about campaigns with cautionary notes on political graft and a friendlier tone toward honest neighbors. The piece details a runaway accident near town injuring Joseph Scholz and family, with mention of a birthday celebration and local residents aiding recovery efforts.
Osceola High School holds commencement exercises June 1 at the auditorium with a baccalaureate at First M. E. Church May 27 by Rev. L. M. Grigsby. The program includes marches, orations by John Schwab and Florrie Weeden, solos, a valedictory by Samuel C. Stoner, and diploma presentation. Also notes a second annual S. S. convention at Fairview Church June 3 with sermons, vocal solos, discussions, baskets, and meetings led by local pastors and children’s choirs.
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