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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
6
A New York Sun report argues separation of distressed family members can restore health. Doctors cite sending a mother to the Adirondacks and children to the country under a nurse as cures for nervous strain and hysteria, claiming distance improves behavior and affection for parents.
The piece discusses ill trained field surgeons trusted by Russian peasants in the Russo Japanese War era. Dr Kennard notes these men rely on medicine to satisfy patients, using self made mixtures and heroic measures. They blame fate or God when a patient dies.
A Constantinople correspondent of a London paper describes the harem as a young slave market with girls educated there for the sultan. He notes corporal punishment and eunuchs, mentions poisoned coffee, and references the Bosphorus sack. Parents reportedly sell children to fuel the harem.
The London Tit Bits reports the National Thrift Society’s thirty year celebration and a competition for the best thirty year thrift records among workers including a 59 year old railway porter who saved £165 cash plus £159 4s in other savings. A Burnham on Crouch shopkeeper with fourteen children shows a turnover of £1,782 and stock £1,800, while a Southend workman has £500 saved in thirty years and a Birmingham factory worker saved over £100 in twenty years. A servant with thirty eight years of savings holds £175 in consols and £107 in a savings bank, with an annuity of £12.
Legal rules state an owner who loses a bank check before presentment may recover against the drawer by filing a proper indemnity bond. The 20 trip railroad ticket owner who allows others to ride is not entitled to damages for expiring or being refused service. Reading an instrument before signing is not a bar to equity relief if circumstances show the signer believed he signed a different paper. An interstate railway speed limit within a municipality is void as an undue restraint on interstate commerce and mail speed. If a juror is prejudiced, the jury may be discharged and a new jury improved. no double jeopardy for the defendant.
A Japanese acrobat Yakoda, 18, leaped from a third story window in St. Petersburg after a flat key incident. Doorkeepers pursued him as a burglar or dynamiter, he was seized by police on Glazova street, and explained he fled to avoid missing a music hall performance.
A reflective note warns against heated quarrels with loved ones. It suggests that genuine closeness fades when spiteful words are spoken and implies deeper insight comes from witnessing farewells between two women.
The piece notes Paraguay's rich local color and the patient gentle native population. It describes barefoot dress of both genders, Moorish style mantas, and markets where women balance wares on their heads while speaking Guarani, highlighting Lopez and years of conflict with Argentina Brazil and Uruguay.
A mother laments her wandering son in a Riley verse long a tribute to maternal love. The poem contrasts the boy’s past innocence with present absence and ends with gratitude for a mother’s prayers and care.
Miss Betty Trapp recalls attempts to speak Italian with an organ grinder in her hometown. She tested phrases about the weather and a restaurant, only to be misunderstood, prompting a monkey's bow and the man’s roaring laughter and a vow to study better pronunciation for Italy.
John Dahl of this place recovered a buried pot of gold coins after a three month search. He hid the savings under his cabin over two years ago and, reluctant to reveal its location, conducted the digging at night by candlelight with a shed placed to hide the spot.
In a masculine schooling moment a mother compares a boy's hands after soap and water practice. Theodore explains he attempted to equalize dirt between his right and left hands following a previous remark, prompting another wash as discipline.
A juror in an Alabama city during a past trial abruptly fled the courtroom then confessed his motive to the judge. He explained he was confused by the opposing argument after listening to Mr Hobbs and Mr Clayton and chose to leave until they finished.
U S consul reports French practice of planting roadside trees along major routes to protect roadbeds from heat and drought. Experts advise vertical roots, outer roadbox planting, and regular trimming. Recommendations include poplar elm ash with specific spacing and hole depths, with soil loosening and annual trimming for up to ten years.
The Wickfords touring Europe reached Pisa and climbed the leaning tower. Nathan Wickford, thin and wiry, crawled along the edge while Candace clung to the railing. He warned her to stay back as the tower rocked and fear rose among them.
A brakeman remarks an easy job is to work between noon and 1 with an hour off for lunch. He notes press notices are as easy to obtain as letters of recommendation.
A collection of humorous anecdotes from classroom notes to church sermons and military life. The pieces include a pupil excused from yesterday and tales of a sergeant at an army post misassigning worship, plus jokes about graduates and Pekin legation guards and a German chef’s grammar.
In a hot Russell Avenue district a man tells his wife about angering a boarding house keeper by asking about rooms to let. He misreads a sign in her window reading Sunny Rooms Steam Heat and Continuous Hot Water, provoking the dispute and a plan to avoid her door in the future.
A Sayville New York hotel story reports fifteen university students hired as waiters rebel against being treated as guests. Proprietor J Davis Secor says he fired the “rah-rah” crew for antics while they served breakfast and courted guests, drawing local attention to student behavior and hotel life. The piece ties in humor about hens in danger and a Minnesotan Hinckley fire, contrasting playful mischief with brave acts by poultry in danger.
A Baltimore News writer recounts a peculiar case of a mistress puzzled by a laundress named Susan who fails to return. The tale turns when Susan supposedly left a will leaving clothes to the laundress, while a Pennsylvania move is cited. Argentina’s cultivated area rises to 36 million acres from 12 million in 1905.
The piece surveys linguistic diversity in Freetown and notes global topics from Britain’s fleet and Irish peat fibers to hoaxes, telegraph lines in Bolivia, and aging wealth, mentioning figures like Miss Mary Pfann and Mrs. Louise Waterman Carpenter among varied vignettes.
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