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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
3
A poem by Charles G. D. Roberts speaks of striving and discontent with earthly ease. It praises will to strive and desires the height over mere success.
At dawn on a prairie platform Marwin from San Francisco meets Marion Dartlin who travels to New York. They recall past engagement and reveal a troubled history including her fearsome attack, a brave stranger’s stabbing, and a letter that altered their futures as they prepare to part.
Marion and Marwin share a moment of confession and near parting as a Pullman car scene ends the chase. He reveals a scar and that serving the girl he loved made the struggle worthwhile. The pair leave together as the eastbound train moves on.
Alfred H. Brooks notes in the American Review of Reviews that Alaska south of the Yukon offers fertile regions for crops and extensive grasslands. He cites Alaska's current output of about 20 percent of its own vegetables, the feasibility of hardy grains and fruits, and the potential for stock raising with hay cutting and winter housing.
At the Seattle exposition a leading watch firm displays about 1 200 watches kept on time by five Seattle girls. They wind the timepieces by hand, each handling around 240 watches daily, a task that demands focus and endurance over an eight hour shift.
The Washington Star recalls a rustic exchange where Farmer Corn tessel jokes about not liking reading yet has made several book agents pay 10 cents a glass for condensed milk and nearly sold one a horse, framing the humor in rural dialogue.
A Paris Journal note laments overbearing science dominating daily life. It argues joy and leisure are essential, condemning the notion that every activity must be scientific.
A Houston Post joke notes a nightmare about marriage and a quip about a married woman buying a dress. The item mentions London’s need for about 10 000 beds to accommodate the sick and maimed, reflecting wartime hardship and public concern.
The speaker expresses being a pilgrim passing through a dreary land toward a promised shore. He longs for the everlasting light and finds consolation in a Redeemer, foreseeing a place with no sorrow, sighing, sin, or death.
The text discusses the alimentary canal and states that pineapple cannot be overestimated and that it acts with equal force in malarial affections.
An analysis notes two novels Mrs. Campbell Praed's By Their Fruits and Miriam Michelson's Michael Thwaite's Wife share nearly identical plots and twin-sister heroines. The piece questions whether unconscious plagiarism or common psychological tropes explain such coincidences in literature.
A missionary from the Philippines praises American women for transforming bare walls into warm homes with packing boxes and calico. The piece notes women worldwide replicate this miracle, crafting comfort through love, laughter, and loyalty amid sparse materials in distant locales. It also recounts a rural neighborho od’s shift to farming life spurred by the R F D, daily papers, magazines, a reading club, and community gatherings with agricultural talks.
A miscellany notes opium imports, iron reserves, and New York exports, with items on bees in early America, movable frame hives, and ancient art. mentions St Paul Building, immigrant shifts, Alaska mineral output, and British Columbia platinum. Also details on halibut fishing, navy deserts, and Asian timber mines. A Buffalo Apple Shippers push for standardized packing. A Maiden Lane clock-winder serves elite homes for decades.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quotation mocks hippos as hunters’ targets, praising messy scenes and crude humor. It also riffs on a man locked out of his house and the quiet ways burglars enter, then shifts to a tired note about martyrs and their mention.
Ezra Burt of near the Corners found a waterline map on a shell map egg laid by Betsy the hen. The egg led to a discolored copper soap kettle heavy with gold from Jeremiah Burt’s Revolutionary War hoard. Mortgage paid, the family lives in comfort but the value remains undisclosed.
A discussion of how Londoners differ from Germans in social introductions. The piece contrasts shyness and fear of intrusion in London with German self introduction etiquette, noting how Londoners prefer third party introductions and attach lasting impressions to names rather than brief encounters, turning introductions into the start of possible friendships.
A Success Magazine summary cites a Lancet writer warning spring cleaning can spread germs and dust. The piece imagines living 40 years without cleaning and notes worms dislike the annual ritual, while predicting dragons and worms may grow large if cleaning continues.
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