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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1902
Page
4
The piece criticizes a trolley accident involving the President, arguing the motorman should have yielded to the President and all citizens, while condemning the arrogant rule of the strong over the weak on public roads. It expands into a critique of gender bias in science and mathematics.
The New York Tribune argues the bicycle craze was a passing fad that evolved into a durable industry and sport. It predicts bicycles will remain useful for business and health while autos endure as safe, reliable transport, not a reckless fad.
The text argues men excel in many areas while noting women can perform well in languages and some histories. It claims higher intellectual walks are where women fall behind, with mathematics described as deductive and not requiring high intellect, yet uncertain conclusions remain.
Collier's Weekly argues that Cuba, long seen as a sugar and tobacco country, could rapidly diversify into oranges vegetables berries coffee rubber indigo bananas corn and beef cattle. The author predicts small capitalists and small farmers could profit from Cuba's frost-free climate and gulf stream protection while sugar and tobacco would require larger capital.
The Philadelphia Press laments Haiti's 100 years of self rule since 1804, noting no legally elected president, insecure government, and violent governance. It highlights potential wealth in sugar, coffee, ports, and minerals, but condemns voodoo influence, lack of education, and rampant plunder. The piece warns such a tramp country cannot endure.
The Hartford Courant argues that real wealth springs from production in the ground and harvests, not from stock market shifts or big trades. It notes many know little about country business links and emphasizes producers supply tangible prosperity, while traders profit without increasing wealth.
The Detroit Free Press outlines a trend of wholesale restaurants in New York that cook large quantities of food day and night for sale to retail eateries. These establishments, run mainly by Germans, Hebrews, Swiss, and English on the East Side, offer roasts, fish, oysters, crabs, and vegetables at lower wholesale prices due to bulk cooking and waste utilization.
A man notes AML collectors haunt sidewalk bookshops and bargain counters. He remarks on their interest in old Bibles and hymn books, describing constant poring over faded volumes and confessing a fondness for relics of the past.
La Prensa of Buenos Ayres occupies a magnificent gray marble building costing about 2,000,000. The ground floor houses offices a free medical clinic a free legal aid office and a museum for Argentine products. The second floor features a rich legal medical and engineering library open to students and a Spanish room funded by the paper. A large hall serves as a public rendezvous and the editor uses a luxurious suite with drawing room smoking room billiard room and sanctum.
The passage describes Fontainebleau rooms used for literary charitable and scientific meetings invited by Le Prensa. It notes a political hall and a soil analysis lab for farmers. La Prensa claims about 900,000 daily circulation and profits around $600,000 annually, with surplus reinvested rather than accumulated by the editor.
The Honolulu Star notes Hawaii hosts many nationalities and races in a small area. School children include Hawaiian, Part Hawaiian, American, British, German, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Japanese, Chinese, Porto Ricans, and others. Teachers reflect similar diversity with Hawaiian, Part Hawaiian, American, British, German, French, Belgian, Scandinavian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and more.
Mrs Hannah Luther of Malden Massachusetts disputed railroad change and was found guilty of grand larceny. She was sentenced to one year in the house of correction after the conductor overpaid her ten dollars and she refused to return the money.
A dialogue snippet contrasts wealth and superiority in marriage. Belle claims a husband with money outweighs emotional equality, while Emma argues happiness falters when married to an inferior. The exchange highlights social satire on class and deception in relationships.
The article cites France with 2,864,600 dogs, about twice Great Britain and Ireland combined. Germany follows with 1,432,000 dogs, roughly half France’s total.
A collection of light anecdotes and quips about human nature from contemporary word artists. Jests include a waxed mustache passenger, a chorus of crowd behavior, and tasteless mistaken intentions. The snippets portray social quirks with a playful, old time newspaper tone.
A guest remarks on the hostess wife painting noting she has painted decoratively for a short time. The host praises his wife's artistry and jokes it makes her look younger. The exchange captures light banter about talent and age in a social setting.
A wife urges her husband to read The Golden Wedding, noting it as a wonderful story from their fifty years of marriage. The husband remains unconvinced, declaring indifference to fiction. The exchange hints at enduring harmony despite differing tastes.
At breakfast a bride of three months reads a letter: “Mother writes that she is coming to spend a few weeks with us.” The groom exclaims with relief and praise, “The saints be praised! Your mother, at least, is a splendid cook.”
A humorous exchange where Sharpe comments on his wife making strange sounds as Whealton reassures that she is not in danger, simply scolding a neighbor with her mouth full of clothes pins.
A servant asks where to store the master’s pipes and the mistress directs placing them on his desk corner for easy finding. The exchange features Jane and a mistrustful plan tied to the master’s supposed vow.
A proud father tells a hurried citizen that his young son Willie has already begun to speak. The friend jokes about possible careers such as barber, congressman or pugilist as they part in a Baltimore Herald item.
Reading lines reveal a jokey exchange about a messy home and missing items. The dialogue hints at frustration over not finding a missing object amid a cluttered closet.
A hotel clerk offers Uncle Hi a bathing suit at the bath office on his first seaside visit, but he declines, saying he washed in the crick the prior evening. The rustic exchange captures a humorous local scene with simple country speech.
Wederly notes his wife greets him with a kiss at all hours of the day or night. Singleton counters that such affection is actually suspicion, not love.
In Life magazine a quarrel unfolds between Louise and Ned over attire, contrasting Millionaire wives with shop girls. Louise defends her costly dress while Ned scolds the look, highlighting social fashion tensions.
A mother asks how to prevent her child from wanting to snack between meals. The reply suggests combining meals to reduce grazing and improve appetite, reflecting a Victorian era guidance tone.
A brief Town Topics cartoon line pits Wirler asking if one ever tires of running others down, to which Wirler retorts that even his car grows weary, reflecting sharper social satire of relentless rhetoric.
A dialogue exchange pits Sue and Kate over redeeming a watch left for six months, highlighting questions of redeeming features and value.
A fragmentary cartoonish remark by Beeswax mocks public discourse and claims the world may as well claim absurd hats and heads in mockery of current fads.
A man and his son inspect a framed picture showing four peaches and a cut melon. The seller asks twenty dollars. The boy whispers that a cheaper, better option exists across town with twelve peaches and an uncut melon. The father questions how he knows better.
Quote exchange shows Krankley claiming vegetarianism and Cooley challenging the claim. A worm in an apple becomes the humorous pivot, cited by the Philadelphia Press. The snippet captures a playful exchange over dietary labels.
A fragment notes Dusty Rhodes dismissing a private car and feather bed joke as a sign of luxury obsession. The careless chatter from Chicago News hints at celebrity disdain for opulent comforts in travel culture.
A dialogue between brokers, one jokes about handling a stock shortfall with a grin and bear it attitude. The brief notes market mood and quirky exchange from Chicago News.
A humorous exchange notes a waiter declining to provide a date for the chicken indicating only bread and butter are offered.
In a courtroom exchange Judge notes a wry line about absence and fondness. Mrs Henpeck and Henpeck playfully discuss affection when apart, highlighting a comic misdirection in a legal setting.
A light exchange from Tit Bits pokes fun at waiter and diner as a turtle soup order lingers, the waiter quips about turtle slowness while the patron mocks the delay in a playful caption style.
A Washington Times excerpt shows Jim Webster, described as a colored gentleman, standing before a Western judge charged with fowl stealing. The judge expresses confusion and Webster replies with a humorous defense about how theft occurred and suggests buying chickens in the market to avoid such rascality.
Southern Rhodesia reports May gold production at 19 500 ounces the highest on record reflecting a surge in mining activity and output for the month.
A garbled note records a superstition about men facing execution and a proverb about a drop of contentment versus excess. The fragment hints at a moral on restraint and folly.
A column recounts whimsical tales from literature and international figures. Dumas quips he never read the book he is blamed for and credits Auguste Maquet with writing it. Other stories involve Miss Newton, Li Hung Chang, and a satirical Encyclopaedist's letter writing.
St John has long pursued the title of Canada’s winter port and became the Atlantic terminus for the Intercolonial and Canadian Pacific railways. The harbor reportedly has never frozen in living memory, enabling cargo to be moved by sea when the St Lawrence iced over.
Canada faces questions over title to vast Arctic island groups north and east of its mainland. The area includes Baffin Land and numerous islands near Hudson Bay and Labrador. American whalers operate stations as talks consider making these regions Canadian districts under Britain’s claim.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss parental concerns over training methods and pace set for young children. The text hints at debate over task difficulty and whether such bets harm development, urging more suitable progression.
City editor scolds new artist for realistic scenes in a Cleveland Plain Dealer piece. He sketches vivid panels of people swinging from ropes to a music motif and crowds chasing changing hours, misusing the word salient as the source notes.
Pearson's Weekly notes that England used over 40,005 railway trucks worth of eggs in the last year, with only about one third produced domestically and a large sum of money leaving the country. The piece urges rural industry to seize opportunities to keep value local.
The census shows over 6.3 million French women work for living, mainly in forestry and agriculture with many as landowners. Industrial roles include about 190,000, the cloister 120,000, the heater 12,000 and various liberal professions.
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