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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
6
A dense list of crossword style clues and partial answers appears, ending with a note that the solution will appear in the next issue along with last week’s solution. The page mixes numbered hints for horizontal and vertical entries, including people and objects, with several garbled phrases.
Instructions explain filling white spaces with dictionary words, with numbers indicating first letters for horizontal and vertical words. Black squares separate words. no letters go in black spaces. Definitions include abbreviations slang initials technical terms and obsolete forms.
American tourists in Australia over three years popularized tortoise-rimmed spectacles. Opticians say this style has the strongest demand, with practically all glasses sold in Australia manufactured in the United States.
A business head contemplates placing a recent graduate son as a director. A friend calls it a big position for a youngster, another suggests starting him at the bottom, but the owner remains skeptical about his advancement.
In Berlin, Tommy counters a German official's accusation of a false passport. Casimir plots to steal Miss Gisborne's passport via Countess Olga, using a patriotic ruse to enable travel to Lystria. Janet contemplates the plan while fears of a passport mix and a cousin's dubious London passport loom.
A blend of verse and practical gastronomy describes seasonal imagery and a tested best-ever doughnut recipe using sour cream and thick sour milk. It offers sour cream dressings, a cake filling, and oyster dish tips, plus simple methods for grilled and fried oysters and a creamed coleslaw style cabbage salad.
An unusual Pacific island example shows natives thriving by preserving their traditional life while surrounding areas succumb to disease from modernization.
Casimir enters the Adlon hotel at ten thirty after a party at the Mascotte. He cannot find Tommy, who has already gone to the police office.
Excavators uncover a knotted cord or quipu in a prehistoric tomb in Peru. The sixteen yard cord has 100 knots and colored sections marking odd numbers from one to nineteen, with silver beads separating sections for even numbers two to twenty. The setup suggests a decimal counting method for quick calculations.
Two telegraph company workers repairing a Boston bank’s burglar alarm were accidentally locked inside the vault. The time lock would open in the morning, and attempts to force the door failed. Morse code message eventually reached them, and the door opened after about an hour, sparing them.
The People of Great Britain are eating more raisins as a supply squeeze on Smyrna and Greek crops prompts Britain to rely more on American fruit.
A London maid robbed the house she served, taking jewels valued at 1500 dollars while her mistress bathed. She returned the front door key the following day, admitting the access and the theft.
Mrs Mabel La Point of Turtle Lake Wisconsin endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weakness backache and nervousness noting relief after six childbirths and long use of Liver Pills. A canvass claims 98 of 100 women benefited from the remedy.
At the end of a language class the teacher announces poetry as next topic. Chester volunteers and defines poetry as chickens, drawing a ripple of laughter in Life magazine style.
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