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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1930
Page
2
City of Osceola Nebraska adopts estimated expenditures for 1930 1931 to cover water works street lighting library and amusements paying interest on bonds sewer maintenance and fire protection. Public sessions set for June 6 1980 to review the appropriation bill.
A news page recalls events from twenty four years ago including a May birth of a 10 pound boy to Mr and Mrs A J Herrmann and a damaging hail storm in the northwestern county that caused significant crop and window damage. It notes the serious illness of C Campbell at age about 75, W T Dunn securing furnishings for a new hotel, and the death of Miss Mabel Hefflebower aged 25 years two weeks. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 11 in the M E Church.
United States Department of Agriculture expert Guy E. Yerkes discusses grafting limits noting varieties within a species may unite while some species mix, as apples on different stock and cross grafts like citrus fruits. The article also cites U.S. farm sizes averaging 140 acres with about 80 acres improved.
An 1868 General Logan order set Memorial Day with flowers and Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. Rufus R. Wilson notes the observance across regions and Arlington VA. Gen James A Garfield spoke. Finch’s The Blue and the Gray spurred reconciliation. Baker linked to national cemetery idea.
A farmer in Bockträsk, Sorsele parish, reports a hare felled from the sky when an eagle dropped it while the bird hunted. The incident reads like Baron Munchausen and was published in Swedish papers.
The excerpt notes that except where waves and currents are violent, the ocean floor from the high tide level to about 600 feet depth is largely covered with plants, mainly algae.
A seed grown fruit tree will eventually bear fruit if conditions stay favorable, but it is unlikely to resemble the parent tree exactly. The text notes genetic variation means identical offspring are uncommon.
A Chinatown sage Hi Ho reflects on the quietude of an ancient temple. He urges forgetting the present to remember the past, as quoted by the Washington Star.
Alice Joyce chosen by George Arliss for the leading feminine role in The Green Goddess, an all talking version of the melodrama. Joyce is noted as a beauty and capable actress, with early start in film in her teens and Kansas City birth, now based in New York when not on location. NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT DEFENDANTS In the District Court of Polk County Nebraska Elmer F Swanson vs Ruth Swanson etc. The petition seeks partition or sale of Polk County real estate described as the Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter Section Sixteen Township Seventeen North Range Three West of the 6th P M. Defendants Eleanor Swanson Dorothy Swanson Phyllis Ann Swanson urged to answer by June 28, 1930.
In a 1930 Western Newspaper Union report, narcotics abuse surges in the United States with New York City alone housing about ten thousand addicts. Profits are driven by high production costs abroad and strong domestic demand, while a world conference in Switzerland seeks to curb smuggling and root out the largest narcotics combines.
The 1717 Oxford edition of the Bible earned the nickname Vinegar Bible after a printer's error in Luke 22. The headline read vinegar instead of vineyard, drawing attention to the accidental wording.
The item asserts Benjamin Franklin was not buried in Boston’s Granary Burial Ground but in Philadelphia, claiming his life and heart lay there and he was buried in that city.
A Battle Creek physician endorses Rexa Relieve as fast, gentle relief for constipation. The Rexall Orderlie tablet claims to wash away dry waste and promote a natural movement without habit or dose increase. Sold at Rexall stores via Crouse Tex Drug Co.
Poultry experts advise keeping turkeys confined and following current economical practices. Feeding sprouted oats or fresh well cured alfalfa meal is recommended for better turkey flock results.
An Ohio experiment station study found that using silage in large rations for fattening steers could raise corn returns by 16 dollars per acre. The results across many experiment stations show silage lowers beef production costs, encouraging advisers to promote silo use.
In Polk County Nebraska creditors of the estate of Gust A Peterson deceased are warned that claims must be presented by September 6 1930 and debts paid by June 6 1931. Hearings will be held at the County Court Room on June 6 1930 and July 7 1930.
W. W. Norton, County Judge, orders daily hearings from September 6 1930 at 10 A M to receive examine hear allow or adjust all claims and objections duly filed dated May 9 1930.
The American Magazine suggests a remedy to noise and evil by creating so many new Bosses that the old ones are overwhelmed. The idea frames economic or social power as a flood that neutralizes existing authority.
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