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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1903
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR text suggests a chant or march lyric with distorted phrases and garbled names, lacking coherent events, dates, or identifiable entities to anchor a factual news item. No verifiable persons or organizations are readable for a proper summary.
A tale of a diamond bought for 50 dollars then sold for 150, later rebought for 250 and finally sold for 350. It ends in an engagement ring worth 500 with the wearer now married, illustrating value rise when a rare gem is desired.
Vivid, rough-edged snapshot of Washington streets around the Capitol. A diverse cast appears nightly from a shirtless man to a street musician, a barefoot woman, and passersby, as city heat, crowd noise, and casual encounters frame a restless urban panorama. The piece blends streetlife vignettes with observations on poverty, performance, and the unseen dynamics of public spaces.
Jacob Sobel reports on a method for whooping cough in which pulling the lower jaw downward and forward suppresses paroxysms. The technique works mainly in older children, is harmless, and can prevent asphyxial spells, with few contraindications.
A veteran actor explains that when the phrase when the ghost walks meaning salary day originated in England. He recalls a Macready era Hamlet in Suffolk where unpaid actors believed the manager would defraud them. On the final night the ghost’s line to Hamlet implied the salary must be paid.
A distressed caller knocked on a neighbor's door seeking relief from a crying infant. He complained the baby had cried for half an hour and confronted the mother, demanding action. The scene escalated to alarm in the house as bystanders observed the dispute.
An assortment of upcoming releases features Lilian Whiting's Radiant, a new novel by Robert W. Chambers The Maids of Paradise, and Nathaniel Stephenson Eleanor Dayton. Also announced are editions from Kipling Doubleday Page Co and Harper Brothers, plus Grafton Press The Senator's Sweetheart Rosseter Willard. B L Farjeon dies in Hampstead at sixty seven.
In a Detroit Free Press column the author notes a change in wedding cake style over the past decade. Traditional large cakes with toppers like cupids brides and angels are fading as couples opt for plain, well-made cakes with no figurines, slicing into individual boxes tied with ribbons.
In a Century magazine reminiscence a traveling actor Jerome Booth receives his late pensioner’s skull as a stage prop. The skull, sent by a will, becomes Yorick in Booths troupe, provoking grim humor and a macabre twist as the ghostly relic lingers behind the lights.
John Clements, cast away with George Johnston near Labra dor Banks, faced weeks of storms and ice as land vanished and water fed by a polar current. Clements overpowered a delirious Johnston, bound him, then rowed to shore at dawn and found a brook with berries and roots before a Newfoundland schooner picked them up.
A Salt Lake City dispatch notes a Mormon Church gathering in American Fork. Of 813 attendees, 41 were over 90, 163 between 80 and 90, and 617 over 70. The group enjoyed a banquet with peas, chickens, ham, potatoes, cherries, cakes, and bread as descendants and leaders traced back to Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
A historical report notes the revival of the belief that living in the open air is the most effective defense and treatment for consumption, highlighting its high fatality rate and wide applicability across climates. Lord Rosebery’s address at the Victoria Hospital for Consumption dedication in Edinburgh is cited as supporting testimony.
A New York Press excerpt contrasts long life myths with facts from Cassius M. Clay and Leo XIII at age 94, noting tobacco use and abstinence impact longevity. It cites studies and opinions on health, climate, and the value of outdoor treatment, including Edinburgh and Pennsylvania sanatoria, as examples of modern health resorts and open-air care.
The Philadelphia Ledger argues gambling on stocks harms character and society. It distinguishes investors from gamblers and warns that the lure of quick money corrupts work, thrift, and skill, leading to defalcations, fraud, theft, and ruin through speculation.
A Brooklyn Eagle letter argues deforestation harms soils and rivers across the continent and urges paper makers to conserve and replant. It notes pulp firms have stripped vast areas without sowing saplings, harming public welfare, farms, and scenery.
A London World column argues that women’s dress extravagance, though alarming to married men, reflects long standing male self indulgence. It claims women dress to please men and that such folly adds cheerfulness and gaiety to life.
Northwood New York Times reports a remarkable case from Adirondacks where William McCoy, a woodsman, received a graft of fawn skin from a nurse in a remote camp after a loggers’ accident. The graft stopped bleeding, healed, and initially scarred well, but hair grew on the graft, then changed with the seasons resembling a deer's coat.
The piece contrasts Mexican romance with traditional restrictions, noting American influence in a volatile regional scene. It references courtship norms in Chihuahua and mentions social clubs formed by young people without chaperones as attitudes shift amid conflict.
A Philadelphia business man recalls stamping his initials on an 1804 cent dated 1893. After years of miscues he spots the same coin held by a beggar, the initials matching his own. He pays $5 for the coin and it remains on his watch chain.
A well known Portuguese engineer M. Mesnier was aboard a boat near the American squadron now anchored. He appeared ready to fight when an unspecified provocation arose, as reported by observers.
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