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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1902
Page
3
A Hangtown audience roars for the Browne troupe amid aerial feats, contortionists, and a star aerialist. Hooley pursues the flying fairy and clashes with Pierre as the soloist swings fifty feet above the crowd. The finale ends with peanut vendors shouting as Hooley departs defeated.
A summary of Chinese fables from Dr. W A P Martin. A tiger fears an unseen ass and flees when the donkey threatens to kick. A monkey tricks a tiger into finding an unseen ass, prompting the tiger to flee. A tiger learns from a cat yet discovers that more tricks remain, and the cat escapes to safety.
The text describes Japanese dietary habits noting no milk use and rabbits as unseen in daily life. It emphasizes rice and seafood as staples, breast feeding patterns, nonuse of alcohol, tuberculosis variation among mountaineers, and claims on small stature as a race trait.
Experiments in Norway show a snow wall four feet thick is proof against the Norwegian army rifle at ranges from fifty yards to half a mile. Snow offers surprising resistance and outperforms wood, according to the tests.
Glasgow plans to obtain parliamentary powers to borrow 750000 pounds to construct 400 three story tenements housing 3600 families for the poor.
The French waterways bill covers improvements to existing canals with a total cost of 12.1 million dollars. It outlines planned work and funding scope for the canal system modernization.
A quiet nap marks the moment you have him fully under your influence, with his words hushed as if held over a barrel. The image suggests dominance and restraint through prolonged rest.
ANID ADEN Growing Egg Planta describes profitable near city farming for tender New York improved eggplants versus Early Long Purple. It emphasizes rich hot bed soil, early transplant after two true leaves, and careful culture while noting farm wives' heavy kitchen and washday duties and the need for home conveniences.
The article argues that incubators reduce cost and labor compared to natural hatching. Beginners should start with a small, reliable incubator not exceeding 100 egg capacity. After gaining experience, operators can scale up. Incubators and brooders are considered essential for profitability in poultry.
An illustrated barnyard entrance features a revolving turnstile to block large stock like cows and sheep while allowing caretakers to pass without setting down belongings. It emphasizes a strong post, iron pins, and a potential circular hole cut in cross pieces to fit the post end for smoother rotation.
The passage describes a method using inches in diameter iron pin run through the top after placing cross pieces to prevent them from working loose from the post.
The article argues that profitable farming requires concentrating labor and fertilizer on smaller plots. As soil fertility declines, farmers should intensify methods to maximize yields from limited land, noting that twenty-five acres can yield more profit per area than fifty with the same inputs. It endorses science driven, high intensity cultivation for better returns.
A writer reflects on how farm work for the farmer's wife has or has not been eased by new machines. Drawing from personal farming background, the piece questions whether female labor on the farm benefits from modern inventions as male labor has.
The article explains growing onions from seeds or sets, sowing outdoors in early drills, or transplanting from greenhouses. It covers spacing, soil depth, weeding, and cultivation with a wheel hoe, and notes multiplier onions use.
A reader describes a corner post anchoring method using a 12 foot 4x4 brace set about three feet from the bottom. The upper end leans at fifty degrees and braces interlock to pull the corner post downward into the ground, countering wire strain.
Practical advice on improving stock by selecting superior animals, cleaning soil around trees, whitewashing trunks, and managing pests like cutworms. Guidance covers soil preparation, frost-friendly plowing, hive placement, and summer bee temperature effects, plus using a hand rake to fine soil and weed young growth.
The text surveys Eskimo brain size hints at intelligence, opossum traits, aurora origins tied to low barometric pressure, a forthcoming Iceland map by Thoroddsen, a new Manhattan elevated railway power plant, and a New Orleans obituary noting an aged aunt with many descendants.
Sallie Waters known as Aunt Sallie, a Virginia slave who traveled to New Orleans with her mistress and Gen. Andrew Jackson before the Battle of New Orleans, died at age 112 in New Orleans. Born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, she endured multiple sales, long migrations, and a life tied to the Vons and Doty families before the Civil War ended.
The Salvation Army conducts broad relief in distressed districts with territorial patrols by soldiers. Day nurseries charge five cents for child care, women perform housework in poverty stricken rooms, and the Bowery Working Women’s Hotel provides nightly refuge for needy women, with 103 beds typically filled.
In a carriage after a swell party Spoonamore confronts Luella about her aloofness. He accuses her of dancing attendance and being too fresh. She evasively calls his confrontation an operation and a clinic as they drift into silence.
A medical student and a young woman joked between acts about disagreeable medicines. They discuss cod liver oil and castor oil, with the woman misnaming cod liver oil as being made from beans, provoking restrained reactions from onlookers.
Mrs. Sarah Barker Brandon of Moundsville West Virginia is widow to Charles Brandon a Civil War era father who sired thirty five sons with three wives The sons served in Ohio and Indiana regiments and all but one were spared in battle The father a famed Indian fighter and War of 1812 veteran was captured as a child by Indiana forces and held in Pennsylvania until escape at age 15 Mrs Brandon now 79 years old.
A brief Baltimore News note reports Bjones being tired out of the Hotel de Thorpe for unpaid charges. The tone mocks Bjones as stubborn and affronted by the episode, reflecting a humorous but critical public view.
A pasted quip notes the speaker’s view of the most exasperating person as one who provokes a strong urge to strike back with frustration. The line frames annoyance as a blunt, shared sentiment about irritating behavior.
Fragmentary description shows a crowded millinery event where a woman arrives in a style conflict. The scene hints at social friction and a tense dressing display, with attendees reacting to fashion and etiquette norms.
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