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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1927
Page
4
Greenwood Lumber Co promotes Mulehide Waterproofit Paint for leaking roofs and fire resistant roofs. It urges readers to order coal while prices stay down and to consider building or extending implement sheds or houses for farm efficiency.
Health officials stress sealing doors and windows improves family comfort and cuts fuel use. Local supplier offers estimates on weather stripping in bulk. Anton Anderson and Mike Horst report reroofing with Mule-Hide and claim readiness for any weather.
Illinois farm leader George Metzger told six Nebraska district Farm Bureau meetings last week that a strong group hinges on farmers backing the organization. He cited dues in Illinois and savings from co op gas and oil stations, stressing member participation over monetary perks. Polk County Bureau policy will limit nonmember sales after November 1, following a October 12 executive meeting.
District 48 notes Elmer Nelson and family visiting Valley and Omaha. Clarence Egelhofft welcomes a baby boy born Saturday October 15. Olive Pipes and Doris visited Omaha last week. Elmer Nelson owns a new Chrysler coach. William Larson and Gust A. Peterson hosted dinner. Irene Lidblade visits aunt Mrs Richard Peterson in Stromsburg this week.
The Gulf Stream flows from the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and the Bahamas then northeast along the American coast. Its narrowest width is about fifty miles with a depth around two thousand feet. After Bermudas it splits into streams about one hundred fathoms deep and totaling roughly one hundred fifty miles wide. Temperature remains several degrees warmer than surrounding water up to the 40th parallel north. Beyond that, the Gulf Stream blends with the broader Atlantic drift, losing distinct identity.
In a Thwing sketch from Guides, Philosophers and Friends, John Hay recalls a Lincoln story. A man told Lincoln that with God they could win, and Lincoln replied Think o think you are more than half right.
A three year old girl named Helen asks to borrow a match for her mother, promising to return it when the grocer boy arrives. She later returns with a burned match and explains her mother did not use it all and she kept it to return.
Persians enjoy tea as a universal social habit in Persia. Teahouses vary from elaborately furnished to simple, serving as meeting places for businessmen and loafers alike. Common activities include smoking pipes and cigarettes with water pipes, and flavored preparations like lemon juice are sometimes mixed with the water.
The Brus Stone dating to 1304 is installed permanently in Annan Scotland's town hall staircase in a ceremony led by Sir Robert Bruce. Once part of the Castle of Brus in Annan it disappeared for 150 years before being rediscovered a decade ago in a North Devon garden.
Caperscape arrives home hungry to find no dinner and an unfinished room. He asks if dinner is ready and contemplates dining at the Criterion. His wife calmly denies immediate dinner but offers to accompany him.
The Cantigas de Santa Maria from King Alphonso the Wise era includes 51 musician figures at the start, three of whom play bagpipes. A Flemish‑inspired 15th century manuscript for Queen Isabella also depicts bagpipes among various instruments.
The piece surveys ancient wealth, noting Pharaoh Rameses III reputedly owned about 400000 talents, roughly $500 million today, and compares ancient purchasing power with prices from a thousand years before Christ, including oxen, wheat, and daily wages.
A baby girl named Geneva Fern was born to Mr and Mrs Gee Kinzer on Thursday October 13. Local notes list numerous Sunday visits by relatives and friends to Shelby residents along with family trips and events.
Dist 48 invites all for a Halloween programme and basket supper Tuesday evening October 25 at Kunkel School. Ladies urged to bring baskets. Bernice Peterson, teacher.
A brief biographical note about Cornelius Vanderbilt as a boy. It describes his farm work, horse love, and early hunger for the sea, culminating in his mother giving him one hundred dollars on his sixteenth birthday after he plowed eight rocky acres by May 27 in 1810.
More than 5000 fathers of University of Nebraska students are invited to Dad's Day on October 29 featuring the Syracuse Nebraska football game. A noon luncheon and sorority and fraternity banquets highlight the day with campus tours and open buildings to acquaint fathers with student work.
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