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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
3
A World War era piece notes scrap material becomes valuable, with millions reclaimed from dumps. It details rising prices for rags and metals, the conversion of coal tar byproducts, and how everyday waste like tin cans and flax straw are repurposed into usable goods, illustrating a booming waste-recovery industry.
A list of innovations includes a head guard for shaving accuracy, a pocket wireless receiver, a camera rocket with parachute recovery, a Paraguayan Andes ropeway plan, high wind tests for model planes, a double acting churn, and a nickel plated aluminum process. Copper output in the US surges past 1880 levels, a compact sounds transmitter worn under a necktie, and a new microscope linked to wearers for deaf users. The artichoke is traced to Barbary as a thistle variety along the Mediterranean coast.
The center of area of the United States including Alaska and Hawaii is in northern Kansas ten miles north of Smith Center, Smith County at latitude 39.55 longitude 98.50. The center of population lies about 657 miles east near Bloomington Indiana.
A courtroom exchange captures a bride and groom in a dispute over finances before marriage. The dialogue shows the groom admitting prior wealth claims and the judge guiding the hearing. The terse exchange underscores financial transparency as a legal issue.
The quote about George W. Woolworth credits him as a premier merchant and owner of the tallest building. It notes that early in his career he borrowed money only once to buy his wife a new silk dress she desired.
George Livingstone Dodds of Winnipeg Manitoba has taken out a patent for a process to convert sow thistles into cattle feed. The invention outlines steps to prepare and convert the weed into usable fodder. The patent signals an attempt to turn common forage into a practical feed resource.
Umberto count of Salemi, half-brother to the Duke of Aosta, serves as a cavalryman turned foot soldier with Italy’s frontline troops. Once in disgrace for a youthful indiscretion, he now fights with the rank and file at Voghera and on the Carso plateau, earning affection for humility and steadiness.
United States Department of Agriculture road specialists identify failures in county road management. Key issues include lack of accounting controls, insufficient funding protection, weak maintenance planning, local criticism of workers, improper fund use, scant skilled supervision, and resistance to pre purchasing materials for road repairs.
Secretary Lansing awards the commission to Miss Janet Scudder to craft three gold medals for Ambassadors Naon of Argentina Da Gama of Brazil and Suarez of Chile known as the ABC mediators. The inscriptions honor their generous services as mediators in the controversy between the United States government and warring parties in the Republic of Mexico. Miss Scudder of New York is noted for suffrage work and prominence in art circles.
A Manchester area resident objects to rampant piano borrowing as households seek savings. After selling his own piano to buy Exchequer bonds, he was refused a loan and then offered to host a musical evening for his friends.
The United States Department of Agriculture plans to domesticate the mink, long bred in captivity for about fifty years. With at least ten distinct American mink varieties, the animal is described as plastic, and the goal is to develop a higher value type than those currently known.
A boy named Alfred spots cider cooling in the ice box and, after considering, declares that looking at it makes him feel jolly. He contemplates how to request a sip from his sister.
The passage argues that removing the Pacific Ocean would need a tank one mile wide one mile deep and one mile long filled daily for 440 years, illustrating the impractical scale of such an effort.
The Country Gentleman urges restraint in U S road building noting a mile of highway consumes eight acres of land and many farms could yield corn instead. It argues a narrower one rod to one and a half rod road with tree shade is cooler and more pleasant than three to four rod wide, sunlit highways. Louisville Courier Journal cites the view.
Good roads improve communication and raise farm product prices, enhancing comfort and happiness for people. They enable a good system of consolidated schools only where roads are well developed.
A historical note argues wagon roads into rural areas hold more lasting value for towns than new rail lines. Proponents say road networks boost trade, mobility, and growth by linking markets and suppliers directly to residents.
Advice on remedying loose bowels in poultry notes the cause is often feed. Recommend increasing middlings in mash and adding a teaspoon of charcoal daily per quart of soft food. Suggest feeding charcoal at least twice a week for fowls.
When colds spread in the flock the poultry house should be disinfected frequently. The drink and feed dishes must be scalded or disinfected every other day to keep birds healthy.
Letters from women in North Crandon Lawton and Roxbury recount relief from uterine displacement ulcers irregularity headaches and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The firm invites readers to write for confidential advice and personal responses from a company woman in Lynn Massachusetts.
A factory manager enforces strict fines for lateness mistakes and spoiled work while a worker Johnson explains he is still tired from yesterday. In another joke a host asks a child about saying grace and Flossie replies her father pays cash for everything.
An editorial note contrasts honest labor with other approaches, stating some men never consider trying it as a reliable means to earn a living.
A lighthearted column notes that tires are a major expense for automobiling and jokes about matching outfits as a playful aside. The piece uses humor to connect practical costs with wardrobe choices during family outings.
A brief exchange features a father praising his son for initiative while the daughter prefers his perseverance. The two sides contrast energy and endurance in a compact moral vignette.
Dr. Pierce of the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo announces that his medicine Anuric is the best uric acid solvent. It targets symptoms of inflammation such as scalding urine back ache and sediment in urine. claims rapid relief and kidney support. A 50 cent package is offered and a trial bottle can be requested by mail.
In the last half of the fourth, with bases loaded and no outs, the leading batter prepared to bat as fans cheered. The umpire halted play declaring the game called on account of darkness. He leaves a widow and three children.
A witty remark notes how a man, after a week of marriage, starts to unlearn many assumptions about women. The quip suggests shifting perspectives and learning anew in domestic life.
A pithy proverb notes that those who embarrass themselves rarely claim to be self-made, implying humility accompanies failure and success is earned through prudent conduct.
Karl Burkhard described his 17 months in the German army, capture by the French, and confinement in a coastal prison camp. He escaped to become a stowaway on a Dieppe ship aiming for more food in England, as reported by the London Globe.
A woman seeking rooms views a saloon three doors away and an agent argues it’s comforting her husband will stay near home. The exchange frames a light social moment in a neighborhood rental setting.
A short wedding tale unfolds as a couple begins married life while repaying the furniture loan. The playful line hints at a practical, if frugal, start to their shared home.
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