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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1879
Page
2
A domestic tale unfolds as Danks and wife host a large Thanksgiving gathering with relatives and lively children. Bills loom and Mother Pippling advises prudence, yet the party ends with Banks giving thanks for the guests and the meal as quiet relief settles over the home.
In a family gathering, Cousin Jack slips from storytelling to a playful scare as he tells a dramatic tale of a massacre. The children react with fear then laughter when he reveals the “massacre” was the Thanksgiving turkeys, ending with an engagement hint between Jack and Belle Carrington.
A tale of Edmund Burke and Sir Philip Francis during Hastings trial prep. Burke admires a grasshopper and ponders Aristophanes while Francis urges to read papers. A sharp exchange ends with Francis exiting, urging Burke to focus on India.
A 19 year old farmer’s son James Trasy chased bay and gray horses stolen from his father Mark Trasy near Cokato. He pursued across several towns, fired eight shots, and wounded one robber while the assailants fled with the other horse. Trasy returned home severely but without serious injury, recovering a saddle and a revolver amid the skirmish. The incident ends with a large pocket book recovered and a verdict for the plaintiff in a separate case.
The widow of Leon Furniss sues Mutual Life Insurance Company over a $10,000 policy issued in 1874. The case hinges on whether Drunk habits voided the policy when Furniss died by a pistol self-inflicted wound. Expert testimony split on moderate versus extreme intemperance and its effect on life expectancy.
A collage of old home remedies and medical advice on eye treatments, neuralgic pains, cough therapies, and first aid. It includes grapevine infusion with salt and vitriol, egg and cornmeal remedies for tooth and face pain, turpentine inhalation for laryngeal issues, and general accident care guidance from Prof. Wilder.
A compilation of historic data includes wheat in China around 2700 B C, New England woolen machinery counts totaling 43 percent of U S supply, and Austrian Reichsrath demographics by profession. It also notes population growth in Germany since 1816, Civil War volunteer totals by state, and a note on Londerton and W D Howells writing a Miles Standish play for Lawrence Barrett.
A speaker recalls youth amid bright honors and birdsong as he stands among snow crowned Sierras. He yearns for a forgotten orchard path where memories revive in moonlit summers. The verse speaks of piercing a stormy sky and earth’s beauty returning from winter.
A collage of humorous snippets and jokes on manners work and speech. It repeats quips about carpenters lovers pedestrian kittens and a feathered minstrel. The piece ends with a joke about wages and grammar and a laborer’s blunt reply.
A compact meditation on tact friendship and self perception. The author warns against harsh speech toward intimates and notes that enmity rebounds like ashes blown by wind. It offers reflections on identity and the unknown charm beyond vanity.
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