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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1880
Page
7
Reports show harsh conditions among Hessian soldiers and rising self harm in Washkend with six officer deaths in one week. A famed engineer Jon Descaux dies at 90 in Susquehanna. Notes on steel ship corrosion debates and Garfield’s baseball passion conclude with postal service staffing figures totaling about 110000 connected workers nationwide.
The article compares votes in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois between 1876 and 1880, highlighting Garfield's gains and the larger Republican majority in Pennsylvania. It also observes Ohio leading Illinois in vote totals and reflects on family voting habits with a humorous anecdote about father and son.
A fragment from a historical account disputes a legend that Gambetta harmed himself as a child to leave a seminary. It states at eight he accidentally struck his right eye with a broken foil, perforating the cornea, and says he was then pampered by his parents, shaping his later temperament.
Scholars cite Adhemar to explain that continents rise and fall with ocean mass through the precession cycle every 10,500 years. The sun stays eight days longer yearly in one hemisphere, driving ice sheets toward the Antarctic and making southern ice cover exceed Europe’s area.
A London correspondent reports Edwin Booth’s London debut draws growing crowds and steady curiosity. Critics praise his scholarly Hamlet while noting elocutionary restraint and occasional excess, with observers deeming his acting full of fine qualities yet sometimes too finished for English tastes.
Tron slips are fast going the way of wooden hulls The ship of the future will be built of steel The advantage of using this material is that it gives great strength and buoyancy in proportion to weight than iron A steel ship can carry one fifth more in weight than an iron ship provided the bulk of the article carried will admit of the difference in loading The only question to be de-
A moral essay recalls the late Czarina famed for fidelity and wisdom. It recounts her view that love should be the guiding motive in a woman's life, for parents, husband, children, and God, and notes her challenge to religious formalism. It contrasts royal devotion with American notions of love and cites a Youth's Companion image of Mary Diller aboard the Scawanhaka.
Proprieter advertises land for sale in Wisconsin praising the town of Poggis and surrounding country as the most beautiful nature has made with celestial scenery, and mentions two wagons and a yoke of oxen as features.
Details of confessions by Samuel S Morey and James O Brien reveal alleged payments and travel tied to forged letters aimed at influencing the Hancock campaign. The journalistic focus centers on the forged Chinese letter used to sway voters and the mounting legal scrutiny, with mentions of District Attorney Bell and court actions.
An aged narrator recalls traveling with Lafayette to Albany in 1824, detailing the grand reception along river villages, Lafayette’s imposing presence, and fellow veterans sharing stories of the Revolution. He also describes witnessing the first railroad from Albany to Schenectady in 1831 and Fulton’s Clermont steamboat in 1807, with reflections on New York City’s early geography and growth.
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