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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1879
Page
3
Ting Ling piles fire-crackers in colored tiers while Grandpa Foo Choo naps. Chang Bang plots with Ting, but Ting is teased yet protected by his mild grandpa as they recall anchors and windlasses. Granny leaves for the chapel as Ting recalls lessons.
Ting Ling plans to fire Chang Bang with crackers but Granny and Grandpa intervene. Chang hangs by a pigtail after trying to climb a fence. Ting frees him, fetches ice, and learns that kindness can heal conscience better than revenge.
M C Shakspeare a local farmer married widow Nancy Ward in a rapid 2 hour sequence. He sought consent from Rev J H Richey after meeting Dr McGregor and the couple wed at 4:20 pm and left for their rural home.
Mrs Damaris Boutelle dies in Woburn Massachusetts at age ninety nine, widow of Col Sylvester P Flint of Fitchburg. The obituary highlights the Richardson family of Leominster with many members living to 80s and 90s. She leaves a brother David Boutelle of Fitchburg aged eighty eight and a twin sister Miss Boutelle of Fitchburg along with Mrs Boynton of New York. Mr Boutelle recently drew his pension as a War of 1812 veteran.
A steel steamship with compound direct acting engines of 500 horsepower has been launched at Dumbarton Scotland. It is said that steel steam ships will soon be common.
A collection of humorous and storied vignettes about historical figures. It recounts moments between John Duke of Argyll and an English squire in London’s Opera House, President Andrew Jackson at the White House, Gen. Joel A Battle and Gov. Morton, Abraham Lincoln with Dan Rice, Seth Green and fish culture origins, and a closing exchange in Detroit.
A doorkeeper refuses entry to a young man and his companion who lack tickets. The man explains he is five cents short after spending on peanuts streetcars candy and lemonade. A curious spectator offers to lend five cents, sparking relief but ending with the man’s abrupt departure.
Dun and Co.'s semi-annual circular shows the second quarter with 1,534 failures and 22 million dollars in liabilities, the best quarterly figures in five years. It notes a marked decrease from 1878 and a much reduced weekly loss from bad debts, signaling revived trade.
An Eastern paper correspondent from Adelaide outlines travel costs in the age of improved transport. He details saloon and steerage fares via Liverpool to London, London to Adelaide, and adds Sydney and Melbourne legs via San Francisco route with first and second class options. He notes living expenses at ports about four dollars daily and that a six month round trip New York to Adelaide to England and home is feasible.
Three miners Nicholas Dickman John Champion and T K Johnson started up the Savage shaft at Virginia City New. A miscue by the engineer caused the cage to ascend while Dickman and Champion stood with feet on the cage. Dickman fell 1300 feet to the bottom and was mangled beyond recognition. Johnson recalls the moment as Dickman looked at him. The body was recovered in pieces. Also notes punishments of Saghalien convicts and other war era items aboard a ship.
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