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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1917
Page
4
Osceola Record editor Ernest G Johnson announces subscription terms rates and categories for display and local ads. Official county paper lists 1.50 annual price advance and flexible start or end dates with notice to stop. Advertising rates include 15c per inch display readers 25c per inch locals 5c per line and special notices for resolutions sympathy cards and professional ads.
The column blends social quips with wartime notes as Congress adjourns and public mood shifts. It cites price worries, marriage and class observations, and questions about Russia and Germany while noting traffic safety in California.
A terse dispatch reports a volatile California venture joint amid strong department pressure and investor uncertainty. Analysts cite shifting demand and regulatory hurdles as key risks for the struggling alliance.
The letter notes wasteful ballots, calls food administration messaging patriotic, and comments on persistent price levels. It cites readers’ complaints about scarce opportunities and jokes about a periscope for the rear observer at parades. Dye F Davis of Silver Creek Land announces a raise from $1 to $1.50 per year starting January.
The Clay Center Sun argues the government should practice food conservation, citing Camp Funston letters that reveal noticeable waste. The piece likens slacking conscripts to social outcasts and questions whether moral duty will compel the hesitant to act before pressure from shame and postwar judgment.
Bonfires will be lit Tuesday October 23 in towns villages and at schools under the Woman's Liberty Loan committee. The event publicizes the second Liberty Loan of 1917 closing Saturday October 27 and symbolizes America keeping liberty fires alive. Mrs McAdoo urges every woman to aid in selling liberty bonds and notes that service earns admission to the Woman's Liberty Loan League.
The McBeth family expresses sincere gratitude to those who assisted with support and comforting words and songs after the loss of our husband son and brother. We also thank for the many beautiful flowers and kindness shown during our time of grief.
Dorothy Dearborn’s photoplay column surveys Clara Kimball Young joining Paramount for Magda, Louise Hurt in a Red Cross sketch, Charles Ray in a second Paramount film, and other industry chatter. Also includes church and local notices, obituaries, and community updates.
School notes describe visits by A F Nuquist and Miss Parker with talks on national defense and Europe, a fifth grade bank, a Gregg Publishing Co tour, a football loss to Seward 13 0, and a girls social welfare club. The consolidated district 28 56 school at Heitzmanard Powers includes a $6000 stucco building with assembly and classrooms, a ventilating system, a ten horse barn, and staffing by Ethel Blake and Ethel Nanthes. Also notices on the James Ward estate set filing deadlines in 1917 1918.
Mrs. F H Ball received four telegrams Monday announcing the death of her father Thomas S Clark at his Olympia home on Sunday October 14 1917 aged 85 years 8 months and 1 day. Clark was an early settler of the county moving there with his family in 1871 and taking a homestead in the Valley area.
War conditions create an unusual opening in our sales force. A man who knows he can sell or an inexperienced man with self confidence and desire to work will find an exceptional opportunity to obtain a permanent territory with an established calendar and advertising specialty house. Write at once to M. F. Shafer & Co. Omaha Nebraska giving referees and employment for at least five years.
Osceola residents claim Doan's Kidney Pills relieved kidney trouble with backache dizziness and fatigue after heavy farm work. Spencer Query of 3 State Street credits the remedy for relief and urges others to buy the same product. Also included is a public notice of sale under an agister's lien in Polk County Nebraska for a gray draft stallion valued at about 1800 pounds, set for November 10, 1917.
The State of Nebraska informs all interested parties that a petition for probate of the last will and testament of Peter August Johnson, deceased, and for appointment of Jennie Johnson as executrix has been filed. A hearing is set for October 26, 1917 at 8:00 p.m. Dated October 3, 1917. Geo L Carson, Substitute County Judge.
Beebe, secretary of the Republican state committee, will run against Sloan for the GOP nomination. Beebe, an experienced campaigner from Osceola, aims to defeat Sloan on record and is aligned with the progressive wing while maintaining party regularity. Indications suggest Sloan may seek the Senate seat, with Beebe promising a torrid fight if Sloan runs for Congress again.
Camp Cody dated Oct 8 1917 a Nebraska soldier in Co B 4th Infantry thanks Mrs Westberg for comfort kits. He notes Llano Grande Texas border service seven months home briefly then called out again March 27. He remarks cool nights due to few sweaters and expresses hope to win the war.
The W. C. T. U. monthly meeting summarized the state convention held in Lincoln. Polk county delegation included Mrs. Adeline Roseberry and Mrs. Dr. Anderson among others. The organization plans to push sales, law enforcement, narcotics, temperance education, and Mothers’ meetings, with all state officers re-elected and about one thousand dollars raised.
Mr and Mrs Oliver Westberg received a long letter from their nephew B H Blixt in France this week. He says the regiment left Tacoma at American Lake on August 1 and crossed the Atlantic in about sixteen days with fine weather. He notes Americans fight Germany with heart and soul, civilians keep civil life, and army life is not hardship as yet. he is well housed fed and finds the work congenial.
M A Mills Jr attended an event in Polk last evening as one of the speakers promoting liberty bonds.
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