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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
1
Old favorites Katie Lee and Willie Gray recount a brookside tale of youth and growth. Two children learn from playful banter about strength and burden and grow toward a shared life, as a cottage and rocking porch replace earlier scenes of innocence.
A humorous look at a French psychologist’s theory that church dozing results from self-hypnotic trance as worshippers fixate on words. The piece notes past tricks to wake sleepers and jokes about pastors dulling attention to avoid slumber. A Chicago paper quips on church fatigue.
Celia Framley decides to share her cherished library with Myrtle, inspired by Lowell's verse about giving. She gathers a generous armful and pursues Marcia to deliver the gift, resolving that selfless sharing embodies true love of authors.
Lawrence Gilman quotes Edward MacDowell's caustic humor with wry witticisms about his works. Anecdotes include a high school graduation performance of To a Wild Rose and a hippopotamus in a clover leaf remark. The clippings also note classroom corrections and humorous exchanges from Boston Herald and Detroit Free Press.
An advertising snippet promises free medical examinations by Munyon's doctors for readers who mail a request. It guarantees honest evaluation, with no obligation to follow advice, and notes Munyon's offices at 68d and Jefferson streets in Philadelphia. Other items mention tree root extension rules, baby minding programs, Marconi on ships, German balloons, Central Park lighting, a Vienna percussion tablet, and general notes.
The fragment lists assorted items including a deadly prank in Bristol Tennessee, a new Illinois law on landlords and tenants with children, origins of the tall silk hat in Paris, a quip about a mule being a chronic kicker, and an ad for land across Nevada California Oregon under the Desert Land Act with offers to address land agents. It preserves names Gain Combs and Bristol Tennessee, and markets for land near Reno.
An advertisement from The Hastings and McIntosh Truss Co promotes the Natural Uterine Supporter as providing immediate relief. It lists distributors across the United States and Canada, catalogs, and pricing, noting the device is manufactured in Philadelphia.
The report notes average yields of 20 000 oranges per tree and 8 000 lemons per tree. It states the Austrian war office ordered two large dirigible balloons. It also mentions American plows turning up the 301 in over seventeen countries and colonies. It adds that smoking was once a penal offense in Turkey.
The text compares laxatives and their bowel effects, notes Cascarets as aiding bowels naturally, and contrasts harsh cathartics with peppery irritation. It mentions vest pocket pills at 10 cents, branded CCC tablets, and a line about one million Egyptians being illiterate. It also states Kepler’s gravitation theory in 1617, seventy years before Newton.
Jacob C Bahr of 18 Broadway Lebannon Ohio recalls three months of bedridden illness with muscular rheumatism and swelling. He says after using Doan's Kidney Pills his condition rapidly improved within two weeks and he returned to work. He urges others to remember the Doan's brand. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y
Rupert Carroll travels from Harvington to see his cousin Lord Netherville misses meetings then returns to Irene Garland in the country. A violent ambush occurs beside a hedgerow, a letter from Carroll fails to arrive, and Irene endures anxious days awaiting news while loyally keeping her promise to a hoped reunion.
Frank G Carpenter describes the nascent new woman movement in Korea, noting that fewer than a thousand are challenging traditional customs while millions remain bound by old practices. He highlights arranged marriages, child betrothals, bride isolation, and later polygamy, with women treated as domestic dependents and divorce viewed as dishonorable.
A Christmas gift mix up leads to Helen receiving heavy woolen socks with a flirtatious note from Tom. The lighthearted tale contrasts a boyish misunderstanding with a sweet, humorous misstep in gift giving. Also includes a quip about Sunday fishing and a nautical boiler fact involving the Mauretania.
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