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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1921
Page
6
A narrator hides in a clam-shell bucket aboard a gantry crane while Henckel and Clanahan search the yard for him. A gunfight triggers a police pursuit and a tense escape plan as the narrator reflects on his attempt to shield the boss from arrest under a trumped-up murder charge.
In the major's den the boss weighs prudence over risk as Mrs Sheila warns that rivals threaten the railroad's fate. She urges caution, hints at unseen enemies, and urges safer steps like taxi travel and stopping solo returns to the house.
The narrator observes a hooded figure with a pistol under the trees outside Major Kendrick’s house and later identifies the intruder as Collingwood, the president’s nephew. A tense pursuit follows as the boss plans to depart with Mrs Sheila, while the narrator uncovers Collingwood’s West Coast arrival and Bullock connection in portal city.
In a barroom escape plot the boss’s security is tested as a thug erases a signature from a register. News of the Petrolite wreck follows, with a petrolite canyon freight derailment blamed on a rock and a stalled rail line, drawing sharp editorials and internal crisis at the Norcross administration.
Railroad manager Graham Norcross and secretary Jimmy Dodds aid Sheila Macrae and her cousin in a Sand Creek stay. They witness a train hold up, rescue John Chadwick, and face eastern financiers plotting Chadwick’s kidnaping to control the Pioneer Short Line. Norcross forms a rival, uncovers plots, and fights to regain control.
A NyTimes tale recounts a Peruvian saintly Black man famed for miracles during Spanish rule. Fearing racial threat, a bishop bans further displays but the saint persuades him to let the work resume after saving a falling worker.
An Indian doctor studies eyebrow patterns across mental conditions. In dementia praecox eyebrows are short and bushy with a narrow gap between them. Epileptic women show a comma shaped inner brow merging into a Y at the outer brow. Epileptic men often have large tufted eyebrows meeting at the center. In manic depressive cases the outer third is commonly absent.
A puzzled pupil Georgie questions a teacher about feebly as an adverb. He insists the word means something that grows, citing a sentence in his reading book. The teacher and class read aloud the line The man had a feebly growing down on his chin.
An old advertisement promotes Bayer Aspirin with the Bayer Cross on tablets and claims directions from physicians over 21 years. It lists uses for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and general pain. It notes affordable small tin boxes and larger packages sold by druggists.
In a cold fog Farmer Giles and his worker drive a bullock to market. A mistaken voice reveals the farmer is being led by the man who thought him a bullock driver, humorously chasing a vanished beast. The ad at end promotes Red Cross Ball Blue detergent for snowy clothes.
In London Sir John Lovery, famed portrait painter, earns the nickname Lazy Lovers for a studio incident with a society woman. He seated her to study her features, fixed his gaze, and only then began work, prompting her remark that he should start painting.
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