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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1880
Page
2
A surreal ballad urges avoidance of the sea with dark warnings about ships wrecked on jagged shores. It laments tidal power and storms, promising safety in landbound life and recalling memories of ancient, dangerous voyages and the sea's hungry vastness.
A historical discussion compares brain function to telegraphs, detailing how verbal memory and speech rely on auditory and visual centers. It describes cases of aphasia and apraxia, where patients struggle to name, spell, write, or speak, with examples of recovered speech and misnamed objects. The piece also notes broader implications for language and thought when communication pathways fail.
A Boston Traveler piece promotes a self remedy for intemperance using cayenne tea beef tea and bromide of potassium as a home cure. It urges surrounding oneself with positive influences, sleep, bathing, and regular meals while pursuing reform, claiming many attest to its effectiveness.
A London Truth summary notes England debates how to treat youth crime. Derby argues 14 and under should avoid prison with magistrate flexibility and separate youth facilities to avoid corrupting influence. The piece contrasts reform with severe confinement, urging leniency for children and harsher treatment for adults.
The piece surveys humorous and sarcastic epitaphs found on tombstones from the era, citing examples like Here lies, and jokes about coffee drinking, dyeing, and misused grammar. It notes some attributed lines to Dryden and a Lord Mayor, with a closing nod to a Chambers' Journal item on thin shoes in January 1839.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt notes Americans drink much coffee but many blends are imitations. It cites Brazil as a major supplier with 422 million pounds imported last year and Mocha Java trade valued over $100 million. It jokes roasters rarely drink their own product.
The text describes a French farmer as generally dour and frugal, living on soup and limited meat. He eats meat only twice weekly, enjoys a Sunday market dejeuner, and drinks beer in the cafe after market. He remains morose about weather and conscription, with only market-day cheer.
In testimony before the Agricultural Commission of Canada Mr Brown of Port Elgin urges reforestation and Government planted nurseries to supply affordable trees. He warns that rapid, wasteful cutting depletes pine and spruce reserves across Maine Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota, threatening the U S timber trade and home supply. He calls for limits, forestry protection, and systematic replanting.
A playful tale shows a tiny hero with a wrong pronunciation words set to sound like the right ones. He visits a gun house, is helped by a bell keeper, and receives care as he nears death yet recovers. The vignette blends puns with a gentle rescue.
William B Barrington of San Francisco admitted to Lunacy Commissioners he could not resist a murder impulse. He claimed drinking caused mental trouble, refused confinement, then killed an intimate friend at a bar, saying I couldn't help it I had to take somebody's life.
An archived South Corona Baptist record mentions a woman excluded from church for talking in the neighborhood. It suggests such female participation has declined in recent years and implies this practice may be extinct.
A Leavenworth Kansas woman tried fillings of Jones’ ears with water after hearing a claim it would raise intelligence by 65 cents. She attempted the experiment three or four times and now her nurse uses sign language to communicate with her.
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