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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1906
Page
3
An excerpt reflects on vocabulary size from ancient dictionaries and contrasts big lexicons with common use. It then shifts to a reflective scene in a meeting house where a man recalls childhood, faith, and wartime memories as music and sermons stir the congregation.
The New York Globe discusses potential electrification of U.S. transportation, argues electric locomotives can exceed 125 mph on experimental lines, and notes cost, safety, and infrastructure hurdles for truly mile-a-minute service between New York and Chicago.
The excerpt relays a wandering writer’s impressions of travel and ships, noting long waits and crowded harbors. It hints at metropolitan hotels and busy streets, with glimpses of life aboard vessels and the pace of ocean passages.
A rustic American cabin scene unfolds with the Blight family and two visitors. The narrator describes a tense yet dull exchange as the old man and woman, children, and guests share a rugged meal of bacon, corn bread, potatoes, and sour milk. The atmosphere mixes humor and unease.
A Chitigza Post commentary argues hypocrisy harms faith in humanity. It notes Hipples deception of creditors through religious display and cautions against generalizing from individual deceit. It also references Mr Sipple who avoided a Sunday paper then acted hypocritically, but warns this does not redeem or condemn the media.
Jacob Riis tells of a boy who shines shoes and receives Browning poems as a Christmas gift. The superintendent offers an exchange for any child unhappy with a gift. Jimmie steps forward with Browning and asks for blacking as the swap.
The poem describes a late autumn day on Nebraska fields with harvest activity. Whittier paints the landscape from harvest fields to sunset, quoting warm scenes of huskers, children, and quiet farm life as the season fades into night. The verses celebrate rural work, nature’s color, and shared memory among villagers.
The Erie Railroad adds a sixty foot hospital on wheels in car No 1099 to aid passengers and employees hurt far from a hospital. It includes an operating room, surgical instruments, sterilizers, anesthetics, two wards, beds, and a gravity water system, all with ground glass doors and integrated lighting and access for stretchers.
In the Baltimore American, comments on politeness and social ease. The piece argues the greatest virtue is consideration for others, quietness, and modesty, noting schooling is unnecessary for agreeable conduct.
A touring car carries a narrator from Marmaroneck to Manhattan in under sixty minutes, tracing past Bronx tributaries, bridges, Harlem lights, and Central Park West. The ride showcases twenty mile per hour to thirty mile per hour speeds, police signals, and urban glow ending at Broadway and Longacre Square.
A Southern youth enters a New York firm and is told by James Cartier that lawyers rarely claim certainty in opinions. The novice had written I am clearly of opinion, prompting Cartier to advise that one should only show the preponderance of doubt on a legal point.
A suburban family's first Sunday in a new seven story apartment features a piano hymn ritual. Ten year old Marjory requests I’m nearer my heavenly home today and notes she thinks of it each elevator ascent. The scene captures a quiet moment after displacement and relocation.
A six month old baby in Baltimore is reported to have spoken his first words and strangled two large snakes reaching over his cradle by grabbing them with his hands. The unusual incident features the infant exclaiming Great snakes and successfully killing the reptiles.
The question asks which is worse to have nearby: a person who is willing but dumb or someone who is unwilling but wise. It frames a local discussion about practical strengths and decision making.
A reader complains that a big family’s home life seems quiet and uneventful, noting that despite the family size there is little activity or excitement visible to the surrounding neighbors.
Some women still resemble the fashion plates found in Godey’s, reflecting enduring styles and silhouettes from the era. The text notes how contemporary dress echoes the period’s engraving designs and suggests lasting influence of 19th century fashion illustrations.
A collage of quirky facts including a white worm in cabbage pay tastes like almonds when cooked, condors soaring to 29 000 feet, Norwegians repurposing wrecked ships, and a waltzing record in Paris. Also: high hat heat readings, language shifts from word origins, and a Swedish underwater kite designed to warn ships of shoals with an automatic alarm system.
Paris may nightly entertain guests in Count Victor de Larnean's secret under river mansion built between Melun and Sens. An inviting grotto entrance leads to an elevator and cool reception room with a marble fountain. The luxurious suites include dining, library, bedroom, and kitchen as guests flock to visit.
A reader notes Rooshee aims to borrow 8800,000,000, inviting skepticism. The cartoonish aside suggests the sum is fantastically large, with the response joking about the impracticality of counting such money.
A brief exchange from the Detroit Free Press uses humor to compare shoes with a man’s head as truth indicators. The dialogue playfully questions how appearances reflect character.
A fragmented note hints at attention to a wealthy widow and her children and mentions preparations or payments to a turkey before Thanksgiving. The readable text is unclear on specifics but suggests charitable or social concerns tied to the holiday.
Washington reports unprecedented action by the president dismissing an entire battalion of Negro troops for failure to disclose identity of rioters linked to Brownsville Texas violence on August 1906 night. A white officer faces possible court martial over slurs toward Black troops. Official correspondence released by the military secretary outlines the investigation led by Brigadier General E A Carlington.
James P. White of Omaha and John Schmitt of Winona Minn were found unconscious after gas jets were left on in separate rooms. White, found at the Murray hotel, is recovering. Schmitt, found on Farnam Street, is in critical condition with uncertain recovery. Schmitt had worked on the Union Pacific cut off in Milford and had letters from Miss Mary Bess of Winona.
Advices from Sheridan Illinois say two men who robbed the Ladd bank cashier J J Hurley of 1700 dollars were seen in that town recently. A farmer buggy used to reach Peru was found abandoned and authorities believe the robbers fled on a 10 pm freight to Aurora. Police along the route are warned as the men are thought to be Chicago professionals.
In Paris the Castellano divorce case is set for a private hearing with lawyers planning a fierce attack on Countess Castellano’s witnesses. Helen Gould travels to Paris to support her sister during the proceedings.
In Clayton circuit court arguments on the Bull of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company suit against former St Louis mayor Henry Ziegenhein continued. He admitted making a $5 000 subscription but said it was conditional on the exposition locating outside Forest Park.
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