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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1880
Page
6
A misty valley scene describes a ruined fortress where moonlight spills on crumbling walls and creeping vegetation. Evoked are ghosts of past pirates and miners, with echoes of spectral chains and distant sounds as dawn returns over the hollow in California.
A narrator recalls meeting Leslie Barton at a southern college where Barton and Oscar Phelps clash in a pistol duel in the cedar grove. Both men die, the narrator flees, and Barton is later revealed to be a woman who used an assumed identity. A marble shaft honors Barton in Pratville Alabama.
A miscellany of statistics and humorous items notes Michigan farming, California property values, Florida orange output, and a New York inmate’s inheritance. It quotes satire on land values in London, pension news, and trivia on travelers, readers, and social quirks with quips about umbrellas, teachers, and coterminous city water use.
A garbled compilation of social quips and dialect humor from various papers. It references a Kentucky State Journal line about writing and a sun shining for all. It mentions brass works, firemen steering a steamer, and jokes about Arkansas punishment, Washington descendants, and odd questions posed by electors.
The New York Sun reports a teething remedy using small ice bits placed in the mouth to soothe fretful infants. The ice cools the gums and can settle hours of crying, leading to rest and sleep, with the practice safe when the splinters are removed before swallowing.
A New York Graphic item notes the first Tale coins bore Washington on the die made by Mr. Spencer. General Was reportedly displeased at the likeness of his wife appearing on the medal, and a cap was added on her. The piece highlights the Liberty cap emblem tied to the era.
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