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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1882
Page
4
A fragmentary verse expresses buoyant resolve to be merry despite hardship. It contrasts brightness and cheer with shared feelings of life worth living, urging resilience and festive outlook amid uncertain waters.
A married woman Mrs Flitt seeks admiration from fashionable clerks and a handsome stranger on a city omnibus. After an extended flirtation she realizes her fare was stolen and faces public embarrassment and tears. She returns home to reconcile with her husband and keeps her Sunday school class.
An old promotional verse urges readers to learn by heart a remedy named Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. It lists Yellow Dock Sarsaparilla Juniper Buchu Celery Calicaya and calls it the finest strengthen and blood purifier from a physician’s prescription.
A humorous vignette from Harper s Magazine recounts Old Farmer Thistlepod leaping to defend poultry from a hawk. His gun misfires amid chaos, killing a young turkey and injuring a cow, while the hawk escapes with a single chicken in sight.
At the Kane county fair last week a gold headed cane for the father and a statue for the mother were awarded to William Owens and wife of Kaneville for producing the greatest number of children. Their twelve children ranged from a baby to a youth as large as the father. Florence Martin received a silver baby set as the handsomest girl baby, and Raymond Sper won a $10 gold piece as the handsomest toy baby. The county fair showcased communal support for young families and future generations.
The Austrian Empress, a grandmother and renowned figure, has undergone a strenuous training for the hunting season. At Ischi she rises early, practices nasties and fencing, then walks or rides for hours. She now runs two hours daily, aided by a pack of foot-beagles sent to Goddlot, and trains horses in a circus at Godolo, riding like a performer.
Peter Cooper and Thurlow Weed are contrasted for health as age rises. Bishop Potter, ex Governor Morgan, Wm. Dodge, August Belmont, Russell Sage, Jay Gould, and Horace Greeley are cited with various aging appearances. The speaker notes his own thinning hair and views on aging public figures.
A narrator recalls a powerful chilly sensation felt one morning. He describes preparing by consuming pepper and rubbing it on his back then wrapping in heavy clothing and quilts yet still feeling intense cold. The piece extols the chill as an incomparable, ecstatic horror.
A mixed drift of noisy claims and adverts fills the page. References include a London Academy poetry roll calling Tennyson Browning and others, Wilde worship, Carter’s pills, Benson’s Celery, and various consumer notices with light satire on fashion and gadgets.
A jumble of items includes fashion notes for leather goods, hotel ads, patent remedies, and local notices. References mention Josh Billings, Susan B. Anthony material, Hop Bitters testimonials, Burdock Blood Bitters, and a Grand Union Hotel promotion. Also notes on tobacco products, eye fixtures, and electro-volt devices. The piece reads as a cluttered newspaper page.
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