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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1925
Page
3
A mixed list of crossword style clues covering music notes scales rivers gods and directions. Readers are asked to fill in terms from diatonic notes and related words, with entries like note names and various nouns.
The piece traces the privilege of clergy exemption from civil punishment in England. Origin tied to biblical text, with Edward I extending it to literate laymen in 1274 via the neck verse Psalm 50:15. It spread to women in 1691, waned under later restrictions, and was abolished in 1827 during George IV's reign, per the Kansas City Star.
William Jennings Bryan jokes about the limelight days before his death in Dayton. A doctor portrays himself as having saved “old Mr Million” while his wife laments past losses and pines for earlier medical skill a decade earlier.
A captioned Life comic line shows the younger generation telling a mother they dined with a near stranger, framing humor around dating or casual encounters as a social test.
In Scotland Sir William Harcourt while shooting in the Highlands with J. B. Millais spotted a horned beast on a hill and prepared to shoot. A Highland voice interrupted him shouting that he was not to shoot the minister’s goat, ending the chase with a humorous misidentification.
An advertisement urges buyers to look for the Bayer name on Bayer Aspirin and warns that imitations may be unsafe. It claims the product is proven safe by millions and prescribed for 25 years and instructs to say Bayer when purchasing.
Jeremiah Kenny of Munster Ireland was arrested for neglecting his five children after one died of starvation. An army pension of five dollars a week lay uncollected for five months in the post office.
A reflective column notes that when people presume little matters, disagreements fade. The piece argues calm discussion over conflict and highlights quiet resolutions in daily life.
A 1925 kitchen column offers practical uses for hubbard squash with baked pieces in the shell, mashed skillet serves, and a porcupine style bake. It also covers beef kidney Creole, cabbage salads, pineapple pairings, and a variety of sweets including spice nuts, chocolate potato cake, peppernuts, cranberry cake, and a raw carrot salad.
Three rain sprites are described: one in the upper left corner down on trousers, another in the same corner down on blouse, and a third in the upper right corner down extending as a long arm.
A humorous caption features a Frenchman who says he cannot understand the language and learns to pronounce hydrphobia, noting doctors sometimes pronounce it fatal.
The world's diamonds probably represent a value around five billion dollars. The United States consumes about half again as many diamonds and precious stones as all other regions combined.
Quote from Cicero on learning shaping youth temperance and the promise of wisdom as an ornament to wealth. The passage contrasts education with wealth and poverty, highlighting studying as a moral guide for future success.
The text notes wild canaries were green with louder voices than domestic birds. It states they were first brought to Europe in the sixteenth century.
The celebrated Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, appointed to the Russian Academy of Sciences by Empress Catherine, authored 756 mathematical treatises many of which remain in manuscript form.
Quote from R C M on burglary insurance abuse describing the worst luck is collecting burglary insurance only for burglars to return and steal the payout.
A survey cites at least one million wild deer in the United States with about 75,000 killed yearly. Minnesota rifles off 20,000 deer per season and New York reports 8,000 slain in 1924. The piece also links dancing to driving skill and discipline.
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