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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1926
Page
4
Osceola Nebraska announces Walter J. Herbes as publisher with printing at the post office. Subscription rate listed as 41 advance and 2 dollars per year. Announcement appears under the Act of March 3 1879.
A colored narrative recalls Bellgrade residents Bill Blodgitt and neighbors in York County. It threads summer heat, local lore, Bennedick court gentry, and wedding gossip through a rambling pastiche of speech and anecdotes.
A long, ragged account describes Jappy arriving in a Ford with a hen nearby, town figures, and visions of ghosts and lights in Omaha. It includes names, places like ONeal and the Missouri River, and mentions post offices, hotels, and various locals in a rambling narrative.
Hawaii hosts an unusual fern species with thick woolly coating used for pillows and mattresses. Tree ferns supply columnar trunks for telephone poles and hut supports, carried as household furniture during moves. Fern stalks produce rope, with outer shell and internal fibers giving strength. The Boston fern fuels steady home supply of living plants, while dagger and fancy ferns from the Northeast are harvested in late summer and stored for winter use. Fronds kept in cold storage stay fresh for florist needs.
Excerpt from The Arcturus Adventure by William Beebe describes a transparent larval crustacean, Phyllosoma, also called leaf person. The narrator notes its lack of shadow, emerald transparency, and all typical animal organs within a three inch body, observed in night plankton.
The dog days begin July 8 and mark the year’s hottest period in ancient astronomy linked to the rising Dog star. The era fused astronomy with religion, when pestilence and drought in Italy prompted propitiatory offerings to the star god and even red-dog sacrifices.
An American tourist asks a rural man if he knows what his luxury car is. The farmer identifies the car, the tourist calls it an automobile, and the farmer counters with a witty mishearing about the scythe as an automaw orass.
The age of sail held figureheads as living guardians of ships. Sailors believed these carvings embodied the vessel’s soul and fate. Some captains refused to sail with bare bows, fearing ill omens and doom for their craft.
Scientists study submarine farming as ocean beds hold vast kelp forests off the Straits of Puget Sound. Giant kelp reaches 100 feet in stem length with leaf tufts up to six feet wide, among 2,000,000 square miles of unexplored seabed in the northern Pacific.
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