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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1926
Page
5
Osceola items include visits from August W Johnson to Wa hoo relatives, Mrs Grace Stowe in Lincoln, and Mrs Blanche Rickley and son en route to Omaha for Thanksgiving. A Dec 4 sale is listed, along with the annual football banquet at the Methodist Church December 2, and 97 applications reported at the teacher examination.
Local items report residents visiting relatives in David City and Omaha, teacher exams in Osceola, and several residents returning from trips. Community notices include holiday shopping, Christmas card demand, theater listings, club activities, and birthday celebrations amid Thanksgiving prep and local sales.
A fragment recounts a farmer remarking a pumpkin won top prize despite critics. A neighbor counters that the prize is for stew quality, not perfection, suggesting strength lies in strong points over flaws.
A subucben church considers a shift from traditional harvest fare like apples and corn to gifts such as coal tools and tobacco. A vicar suggests practicality and gratitude over old expectations while an elderly parishioner humorously reflects on a year of trouble and faith in divine support.
An old Irishman tells a group of workmen a joke about falling three stories while helping build a skyscraper. He says the first fall hurt, but the second and third fell harmlessly, hinting that believing one tale makes others easy to accept. The stranger questions the math, and the veteran reveals his sly wit.
Mrs Emma Hartman was an afternoon guest on Sunday of Miss Anna Ogden in Osceola. Mrs George Buchta and son Chester of Illinois were entertained as guests of the Calmar Durn family a few days last week. Frank Orr moved his family from the tableland to the valley on the old Reisdorf place now owned by C Dunn. Mr and Mrs Geo Gilbert and daughters drove to Stromsburg Thursday evening to visit the former parents. Miss Anna Urban a professional nurse in St Joseph hospital Chicago returned to her Shelby home Monday afternoon to visit parents until after the holidays when she will resume duties in Chicago, also stopped in Omaha for a couple weeks. Mr Leonard Reitz, ill for 3 weeks, is in very bad condition.
Phone 63 for prices on poultry Friday and Saturday. H C Duncan Produce Co advertises Eveready A and B dry batteries and Exide Radio Storage Batteries from Cummins and Miller Electric Co. Drive into our building to unread your poultry. H C Duncan Produce Co.
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