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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1916
Page
3
A historical account following the French Legion stationed in Algiers as tensions rise. The narrative traces discipline, battles, and colonial politics through a soldier’s experiences, highlighting loyalty, ordeal, and shifting loyalties within a hostile North African theater.
Sylvia Omney returns from Algiers search for her missing brother and falls for Captain Arnaud. Richard Farquhar, drunk and maneuvering through a web of debts, coerces Captain Lower into a torn bargain over I O U notes. Gabrielle Smith aids Farquhar as Lower demands an apology and threatens dismissal over a forged confession.
In a London club Richard Farquhar learns officers Lowe Preston and Arnaud face loss of trust after stolen aero gun plans surface. Arnaud confesses he bought them. Farquhar resigns his commission and warns Arnaud he is in pawn for Sylvia Omney’s happiness.
A reflection on heredity and temper in a child born to a wife of a man who committed murder. The passage links a woman’s influence to volatile passions, suggesting the child may inherit a volatile disposition.
An English observer praises American fashion and interiors noting women’s beauty and dance, furniture painting, and Italian influenced houses. She visits a hollow tile villa with blue-green blinds, brownish red roof, white woodwork, gray walls, cedar cushions, and red tile floors. summers stay cool and winters warm with thick rugs.
A witty exchange contrasts statesmen’s grand airs with their ordinary, printed platitudes. The student notes that without the illusion of profundity, their comments would remain unseen. The dialogue lampoons polished interviews and media framing.
A middle aged woman recalls Memorial Day rituals from girlhood including making bouquets with roses spice pinks and lilies of the valley for the town hall and cemetery. She describes affectionate parades with veterans in blue coats and notes many have since passed away.
A poem by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi honors Decoration Day with flags, marching bands, and soldiers laid to rest beneath lilacs. It links Lincoln's spirit and divine peace to memories of veterans and the nation’s liberty.
A short quotation attributes cheerfulness to the heart’s weather, citing Samuel Smiles as the source. The line frames cheerfulness as a turning force in life.
Americans observe Memorial Day with a wakeful sense of war’s cost recalling the early sixties. The essay notes courage endurance and devotion despite differing weapons and the enduring sorrows left by wartime sacrifice.
The passage hails the Grand Army as saviors of the republic and credits the Civil War with ending slavery, creating a united nation. It emphasizes government by the people, a new order after the conflict, and the ensuing growth and prosperity under a spirit of brotherhood from coast to coast.
Adjutant General P L Hall Colonel BE Muffin and Major Hazel on Governor Morehead's staff completed a purchase of 800 to 900 acres northeast of Ashland for a government rifle range. Plans include barns, sheds, a military club house with caretaker, target pits and encampments this summer with the Omaha cadets and state university cadets to participate.
Informal meeting of Nebraska state board of equalization members suggests no sizable raise in railroad property values and little or no rise in real estate assessments. The board plans to avoid parity increases, possibly reducing values in counties deemed excessive while keeping overall real estate near current levels.
State boys corn club members may attend a four day congress at the college of agriculture featuring lectures and lab work on corn and related farming. Only those with final reports may participate. Union Stock Yards Co of Omaha offers a paid trip to the champion and a similar offer for the second place winner through county supporters.
Secretary Mellor reports 1915 state average farm wealth at 4505 dollars, higher than Kansas’ 3600. Nebraska has 129,678 farms with total crops and livestock valued at 584,245,778. taxable livestock valued 232,361,282. cereal, vegetable, fruit and garden crops worth 351,884,396.
Lieutenant Edward Bagnall of the National Guard aviation corps earned signal honors after a six weeks training course at the Curtiss school. The Aero Club of America paid for the course. He was chosen as mechanician for Steve McGordon, a leading entrant in the Sheepshead Bay aviation meet.
Farmers report above normal rainfall last week boosting crops in western Nebraska. Earlier high winds caused damage but wheat and alfalfa are strong for the season. Early grains and corn planting progress well with favorable conditions aiding final stages. Curtis state farm demonstration crops in excellent condition.
Governor Morehead issues circular to Nebraska county judges and attorneys instructing them to notify the nearest Italian consul when an Italian citizen dies intestate in the United States. Consular agent for Nebraska is Antonio Venuto of Omaha.
Letters arriving at the state house seek enumerators for the nationwide bird count. The work is voluntary though this year the survey focuses on plains bird life within the state to test the effectiveness of state and national bird laws.
Census shows 4731 acres used for sunflowers last year with Nebraska ranking low despite favorable growing conditions. State agricultural board plans seed use investigations and may establish experimental plots on part of the state fair grounds to demonstrate crop value.
State Superintendent Thomas apportioned 1401.16 in government funds to Blaine Cheri ey Grant and Thomas counties from forest reserve lands. Blaine 58.64 Cherry 817.94 Grant 4.69 Thomas 519.98. Funds split one fifth to county road, one fifth to school districts, three fifths to schools by population. Smaller sums may be in postage stamps. Sending Out Corporation Tax Notices says Pool. Tax due July 1 delinquent Aug 1. Penalty 15 percent for late payment.
Forty-five students will graduate from the college of agriculture this year at June commencement, the largest class in the college's history. Eight more were graduated in February, totaling fifty-three for the year. The cohort includes thirty-one men and twenty-two women from twenty-seven counties, with ninety-eight diplomas awarded at recent exercises.
Governor Morehead appointed A J Sawyer of Lincoln and Robert Cowell and T P Reynolds of Omaha to the state board of mediation. The board, created by the 1913 legislature, filled terms that expired that summer.
A petition demanding a constitutional amendment to prohibit liquor sale or manufacture was filed with the secretary of state Monday forenoon and prepared in book form in the afternoon. Eight workers, including prohibition staff and governor's office members, detached signatures from original petitions. Secretary of State Pool will verify the signatures by actual count.
Lincoln hosts a rural life conference from June 13 to 23 highlighting the growing role of rural organizations. C. H. Gustafson, state president of the farmers' union, and J. D. Ream, state master of the grange, will speak on their organizations' community impact.
After approving Boyd and Holt counties for 12 008 from the state aid bridge fund to complete a bridge four miles south of Lynch over the Niobrara river, the state board of irrigation and highways announced no further state aid bridge applications would be allowed this year.
Word reached Lincoln reports the death of D. W. Stephenson former surveyor general of Nebraska and legislator in 1883. He died in Colorado and was a prominent state official.
The ruling states delegates to national conventions and national committeemen elected at state primaries need not file acceptances with Secretary of State Pool. It also covers presidential and vice presidential candidates who received their party's preference vote. Candidates must generally file acceptances or lose their places on tickets. Mr. Pool prepares a detailed notification for President Wilson.
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