Osceola County Board Audits Claims November 17 1982
Osceola Nebr county commissioners audit and approve a long list of claims against the county general fund including precinct election board services for South Canada North Canada Clear Creek Island East Stromsburg West Stromsburg South Osceola Valley East Pleasant Home West Pleasant Home Platte precincts and school districts 67 18 5 12 and other entities. The meeting notes the fee reports from county officers and adjourns to December 5 1932 with instructions to file labor and material claims by December 1. Approval by Lee Campbell and J W Fillman as county clerk closes the session.
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County Commissioners
Osceola
Nebr
Board of County Commissioners
County General Fund
Hackberg
Election Board
South Canada
North Canada
Sam Clear Creek
Island
East Stromsburg
Stromsburg
South Osceola
North Osceola
Valley
East Pleasant Home
West Pleasant Home
Ateadenece
Platte
Same
School Dist
Shelby Saute
Gudhonstl
Stromsburg City Library
Viking Lodge
Polk
SATIS
Peig
Ied
Lassaclesbenlsest
Farmers Co-Op Union
Swede
Barr Labor
Fred Berger
Nelson Canvassing Board
Kemp Same
Divelling
Howse Ins. Co. Ins
Premium Love
Burroughs
Mach. Co
Anderson
Ins
Will Taylor
Board of County Commissioers
J W Fillman
W W Norton
Grace P. Johnston
W Roy van Hoosen
Oo Lo
Lee Campbell
J. W. Fillman
American Boy Yout h Companion Announces 1933 Lineup
The American Boy Y Youth's Companion previews a 1933 program featuring a modern Robinson Crusoe adventure with two boys and a man surviving in the Amazon. Additional fare includes world adventures stories, school and college tales, professions, sports interviews, travel and science pieces. Subscriptions run 2.00 yearly or 3.00 for three years.
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America
Amazon
W. la Fayette Blvd
Detroit
Mich
Assurance of Quality and Low Prices for Hammermill Papers
The note promotes quality work at the lowest prices with a choice of Hammermill papers, signaling a focus on value and material selection for printing or packaging tasks.
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Hammermill
Sun spot cycles blamed for hard times across life
Pathfinder Magazine reports a Dominion Observatory bulletin linking solar sun spot fluctuations to changes in life conditions. It notes spots vary in size, with cycles lasting about eleven years, affecting sunlight, precipitation, cloudiness, temperature, and atmospheric chemistry worldwide.
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Dominion Observatory
Department of Interior
Ottawa
Canada
Pathfinder Magazine
Worth Repeating Satire on Fame and Society in Advice Column
A collection of wry maxims on fame, money, public life, and social vanity. It covers named ideas like moving pictures democratizing talent, the futility of wealth as happiness, and the paradoxes of speech, ambition, and appearances. The tone skewers public figures and common beliefs.
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United States
Subways Hero Receives Medal For Slowing Train For Pet
Motorman Joseph J. Krankoff earned a gold medal from the New York Humane Society after slowing his subway train for two miles to avoid injuring a white poodle that wandered into the tube.
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Joseph J. Krankoff
New York Humane Society
Boy's Cleanliness Questioned by Mother
A mother doubts her son's cleaning, noting his face remains dirty. The boy insists he has washed, showing a towel that appears dirty, suggesting cleaning was mostly a dry cleaning process.
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Mother
Swiss Split Second Watches Timing 1982 Olympic Races
Thirty Olympic clocks from Swiss maker Clockwork Thirty cost about $6000 and provided exact timing across 1982 Olympic races. A moving picture camera stop watch combination was used for the first time to aid timing accuracy.
Miss Thirty Odd Oh and Mr Blunt Surprise
A playful London Tit Bits quip notes a sudden moment of surprise between Miss Thirty Odd Oh and Mr Blunt as they react to an unexpected development. The exchange hints at social intrigue and theatrical wit in a lighthearted tone.
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Mr. Blunt
London
Smith Refuses to Argue With Wife
A humorous exchange notes that Smith allegedly makes his wife angry by not engaging in quarrels, rather than by abuse. The remark frames the dynamic as a light, domestic dispute rather than a serious complaint.
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Smith
Can't Afford Both Mrs Loser
A humorous exchange about dental bridge work and quitting bridge play highlights a couple's budgeting dilemma and the humorous tension between health expenses and hobbies. The dentist recommends treatment while the husband jokes about giving up bridge games to save money.
Fills the Bill I Want to Do Something Big and Clean
An unusual Berlin note quotes the phrase I want to do something big and something clean. The text is attributed to Deutsche Mlustrierte and echoes a call for bold action versus purification.
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Deutsche Mlustrierte
Berlin
Hot Air Hunter and Bull Shooting Quip Crowned by Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer wryly notes a talking hunter who claims grand exploits but is humorously accused of merely shooting the bull in a lighthearted quip about boastful talk.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Audubon and Franklin on the Bald Eagle as a Poor National Symbol
The text presents Audubon’s critique of the bald eagle as the U S national emblem, agreeing with Benjamin Franklin that the eagle has a bad moral character and is lazy, robbing others’ prey, while describing its courage and flight. The passage cites Franklin’s letters praising the sentiment.
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John James Audubon
Penjamin Franklin
Audubon
United States of America
Franklin
Population shifts between farms and cities in 1931 and 1980
USDA estimates show 1 472 000 left farms for towns in 1931 while 1 679 000 moved farmward. Farm population rose by 648 000. In 1980 1 766 000 moved city to farm and 1 727 000 moved farm to city nearly balancing. 1981 saw fewer moving to farms and a notable drop to cities.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Don Bradman tale from village cricket match
Don Bradman recalls a humorous village cricket moment in England where a ball struck the butcher on the head near the wicket. The umpire ruled out, arguing the sound came from wood, while the batter protested he did not know where it hit him. The keeper’s catch sealed the dismissal.
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Don Bradman
America
England
Boston Transcript
Nitasato Hero of Antitoxin Discovery Shibasaburo Kitasato
During World War I tetanus bacilli were found in northern French fields. Timely antitoxin use, thanks to Kitasato and Nitasato, saved many wounded. Dr Claude Lillingston recounts this history in Hygeia Magazine.
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France
Shibasaburo Kitasato
Nitasato
Claude Lillingston
Hygeia Magazine
Errors Teach Compassion in a Moment of Suffering
A reading from Longfellow reflects on judging others and imagining the life of a sinner. The speaker urges empathy by recalling a single heart’s struggles temptations and wants.
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Longfellow
Sage Savings Reflections on Human Nature and Society
An eclectic set of maxims and observations on truth effort love and social behavior. The notes compare fame wealth power and clever thinking with practical experience and human folly. The author muses on knowledge action and public sentiment with aphoristic wit.
Live Stage Prices at Omaha Stock Yards November 22 1935
Prices for cattle and hogs at Union Stock Yards Omaha show dull demand and overall lower values. Steers and yearlings opened the week 2 to 6 cents lower with cornfed heavy supply. hogs bulk 2.85 to 3.15, top 3.20, under steady to lower trade.
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Union Stock Yards
Omaha
Coyotes Expand Range to Eastern Regions
The coyote once tied to western plains has been found outside its natural habitat in the East including outskirts of Baltimore last year and sightings in Georgia and Florida.
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West
Baltimore
Georgia
Florida
Naval officer rank in a riddle about a tramp ship
A dialogue presents a tramp ship optician and a returned question about naval rank. The reply indicates the officer’s duties involved scraping the eyes of potatoes, portraying a satirical or absurd exchange between a naval officer and a tramp ship’s staff.
Patient seeks help after druggist advice in London
A patient recounts visiting a London druggist who refused to help and sent them to a doctor, reflecting the era's limited medical guidance and distrust of pharmacists.
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Everybody’s Weekly
London
No Other Inducement He I Must Get a Wife with Money
A London humorous snippet shows a candid exchange about marriage where one party insists money is needed, and the other questions whether money is the sole inducement.
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London
Quiet Burglar Husband Puzzle Sparks Courtroom Banter
A courtroom scene features a sharp exchange about an ostensibly quiet husband revealed as a burglar. A defense witness jokes about the contrast between crime and domestic calm, prompting a wry reaction from the judge.
Lamb market holds steady to strong with lambs clear
Limited lamb supply cleared readily at steady to strong prices led by fat lambs reaching 5.50. Feeders remained strong with good grades 5.00 to 5.25 and aged stock unchanged. receipts about 6 000 head. Snow counted as rain notes explain snow to rainfall conversion.
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Weather Bureau
Sheriff's Sale Notice in Polk County Nebraska 1932
Sheriff W Roy VanHoosen issues a sale notice in Osceola Polk County Nebraska under a Prudential Insurance Company of America suit. The West Half of Section 30 Township 14 North Range 1 West is to be sold to highest bid for cash at the courthouse front door on November 30 at 10 A M.
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District Court
Polk County
Nebraska
Prudential Insurance Company of America
John H. Mickey Company, Incorporated
Osceola
Office of the Register of Deeds
W. Roy Vanhoosen
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Lefebvre Corporation
Frankel Carbon & Ribbon Mfg. Co
Geo. L Carson Conveyance
Polk County Democrat
Polk Progress Publishing
Sage Savings
Squta Oraha
Bueyers
Coyotes
Sheriff's Sale
Hotel Castle
Elmer S. Rood
Jones St
Omaha, Nebraska
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