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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1879
Page
6
A two and twenty year old speaker laments reporters spoiling a planned secret wedding with a poem of love and warning about the dangers of gossip. Gracie plans a surprise while hoping to delay public notice until the ceremony. The narrator urges lovers to outwit newspaper folk to keep the marriage private.
A narrator recounts three near death experiences from a single Italian family where rapid interment was common. The nurse rescues a boy from a coffin, a mother revives her daughter with a two blade fruit knife, and a revived bride returns to life after being buried in wedding dress.
Commander Cameron reports on Urua in Central Africa, detailing its imperial rulers, ritual practices, and social structure. He describes mutilation as authority, idol worship around Kungwe a Bauza, elaborate tattooing, ring dances at weddings, and drum signaling for long distance communication.
A Frenchman proposes that inhaled tobacco smoke fowls produce white tender flesh. He locked a chicken in a fowl-house with burning caporal, which the bird tasted and consumed, allegedly whitening the flesh and nicotine poisoning it.
A New York paper notes a London bicycle road race where the winner rode 1,404 miles in six days and eighteen hours, averaging nearly fifteen miles per hour. The piece highlights rapid personal transit, the bicycle as a useful tool, and wide adoption among doctors and postmen.
The Cincinnati Gazette notes a revival of Madras handkerchiefs and bright plaid neckwear once popular in the East Indies. After wartime fabric costs, English Madras reproductions and gingham imitations surge in Boston and New York, with women wearing embroidered hats and men sporting gaudy ties as summer fashions spread to New England seaside resorts.
A physician called to aid a sick child was offered 2000 lire if successful and warned he would be shot if he failed. He treated the child but died. the father then killed the doctor. Italian juries are lenient to murderers, and the gun owner was fined 25 000 lire and imprisoned ten years.
German writer Robert Lemke recalls Siberian exile in Tobolsk and a distant mine shelter for convicts. He details underground cells, iron restraints, and forced labor, with officials denying the causes of banishment and offering only periodic rest at Easter and the emperor’s birthday.
A health warning notes flies may carry poison from fly papers as a matron yawns and swallows a fly. The account shows swelling and vomiting from the poison and warns flies can transmit toxins. It adds railway accidents in the UK caused no passenger deaths in the six months to June.
A nostalgic poem praises Kittie White as a merry, lovely sprite. The speaker revels in her golden smile and sparkling eyes, claiming simple joys outvalue riches. Dreams of meeting her again under fading light evoke longing and affection.
A collage of wry observations and jokes on weather, gossip, and common sayings from the Detroit Free Press. It riffs on misheard phrases, sly quips about Beaconsfield and the Boston Transcript, comic misunderstandings, and a stray tale of a boy found in Machinery Hall.
A tax plague in Tidia hits Deccan districts with massive rodent eradication. Nearly 100000 killed at Habil and 50000 at Gadag, 7500 at Nowgund, and very large numbers destroyed across the Southern Maratha country.
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