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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1902
Page
6
A jumbled OCR item mentions damp storage affecting honey and bells sold by churches in Neodesha Missouri, burglar tales in Peru with sponges and water, and oversized apples from Puán Norfolk England weighing several ounces.
The Youths Companion offers a free handsome twelve color lithographed calendar with gold border to new subscribers for 1903. Non subscribers pay fifty cents, while new subscribers receive the calendar with remaining 1902 issues and a full year to January. The Youths Companion, 144 Berkeley Street, Boston.
An assortment of ad copy items notes Hall's Catarah Cure sold for 75 cents. It mentions annual London street sand expenses around 50 000 dollars to aid horses. Also promotes Mrs. Austin pancake flour for quick breakfasts and a quip about Chinese camer an'ling officers beaten by generals.
An advertisement touts Dr Thomas' Eclectric Oil as a remedy for croup sore throat and pulmonary troubles. It also claims the product relieves pain of every sort and notes many competitors in the market.
The piece asserts tears function as a cleansing, refreshing fluid for the eye. It claims tears strengthen vision, keep the eye soft, and that observers with sympathetic tears show brighter, more tender orbs than others.
Advertisement claims permanent cure for fits and nervousness after first day of use. Offers a free $2.00 trial bottle from Dr R H Kline M D at 931 Arch Street Philadelphia Pennsylvania with mail order details and contact.
Elwell Hoyt of Eau Claire Michigan holds the most complete central states collection of pioneer relics kept in a log cabin built in his home. He notes the distinction between a planet and a star as a reflection versus intrinsic light.
Two boys on the training ship Minneapolis, Perry McCoy and Anse Hatfield, represent rival sides of the Hatfield McCoy feud but bury ancestral hatred to become fast friends with hammocks side by side. Cupid teaches the young female how to shoot as a light aside. Spearing swordfish up the Atlantic coast is highlighted as an exciting ocean farming occupation that yields good prices.
In chronic bronchitis early treatment with Dr August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea and St Jacobs Oil as an external application along the throat aids breathing. The oils penetrate adhesions in bronchial tubes, easing expectoration and promoting healing. The combination also helps asthma croup whooping cough enlarged tonsils and other bronchial ailments. Families should keep both remedies ready for prompt use in early stages.
The British Museum purchased the ten pound aerolite that recently fell at Crumlin County Antrim Ireland. An ad promotes Dean's Kidney Pills with a testimonial from C B Boies Akron Ohio claiming a cure for Bright's disease like kidney and bladder trouble and offering a free trial by mail from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Pills priced 50 cents.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a dialogue about college expenses and family business. The piece comments on a Moroccan arrest rule, a bath invention, and a wired restraint that generates heat and perspiration as a crude analogy.
The Bradford England municipal tramway system reports twenty-one million penny fares collected over the last six months yielding about $420,000. The figures reflect passenger revenue and system usage in the period.
A Tribune quip notes a streetcar conductor urging passengers to squeeze by a stout man, joking that he can be compressed nearly a foot more. The item juxtaposes streetcar manners with a home made bread remark on temper.
The new Faverolle breed illustrated as cock and hen from France is praised for vigor early maturity and good feeding qualities. It is regarded as a desirable table fowl with strong meat, though egg production remains less documented. Orchard trees require annual care including pruning spraying and thinning to stay profitable.
An analysis notes the growing share of factory use in dairy and cheese production from 1860 to 1900, with butter factory output rising to 28.2 percent of total and cheese largely produced on farms. The author stresses the farm and factory as twin sisters shaping American manufacture and cites agriculture supplying 81.2 percent of raw materials for industry.
The Governor of Oregon extols Peruna as the universal catarrh remedy in letters to Dr. Hartman. He reports using it for his family to treat colds and prevent other illnesses, urging households to keep Peruna for coughs and winter ailments and to obtain Dr. Hartman’s free book "Winter Catarrh."
The New England Homestead notes government land grazing limits have pushed meat prices higher. It argues farm fencing and land management, plus improved grasses, better feeding, and earlier fattening could restore supply. It cites shifts from fifty to three acres per steer and outlines potential cost parity with pasture-based systems.
A simple fruit picking box shown on ladder use with a carrying handle and top box positions. The piece urges concentrated feeds, abundant fresh air and direct sunlight as germ destroyers, and compares prison life to farming conditions while stressing exercise and open air for long health.
The passage argues that grain stubble on plowed fields contains valuable plant foods and lime but is not enough to prevent soil depletion from cropping. It urges farmers to study the soil and apply additional stable manure or fertilizer to restore soil fertility beyond what stubble returns.
Roadside tree planting should favor ornamental species beyond property lines. If inside fence lines along the farm, cherry trees offer ornament and potential income, while in apple regions apples are advised but neglect remains the main drawback.
American Cultivator reports Nebraska will feed at least eight hundred thousand sheep and lambs this year as corn yields around three hundred million bushels support feeding. Demand keeps prices firm amid ample feeder stock while Colorado faces lighter alfalfa due to drought and water limits. Chicago receipts of sheep and lambs exceed typical seasonal levels.
Steele County Minnesota creameries are praised as key promoters of prosperity with twenty two creameries in the county collectively producing over 3,000,000 pounds in 1901. The First National Bank of Owatonna issued a draft featuring a four leaf clover and marking the creameries’ distances from Owatonna.
Thumps in pigs treated with twenty five drops of tincture of opium and digitalis every four hours in water until cured for adult hogs. For pigs three months old use half the dose. for six months old use three fourths.
The article discusses Grand Rapids lettuce forcing, harvesting turnips mangels and cabbage before winter, and introduces a new strawberry Dom Paul as the fruit world’s flower. It advises cooling fruit for storage, weeding in late summer strawberry beds after rain, and notes a Michigan man earning 211 from gooseberries on under half an acre. It mentions ornamental persimmon and cabbage issues, plus a saltpeter solution for cabbage.
A pie made from green tomatoes is layered with thinly sliced lemons and tomatoes, sweetened with sugar. After paring rind and removing seeds, the dish bakes without a top crust and finishes with a meringue.
Mrs I E Burton of Eureka Juan now at 507 Gladstone street Gainesville reports bold results from Dodd's Kidney Pills. After long kidney trouble and unsuccessful medical treatment she was cured and says her mother and brother recovered as well. She urges others to try the remedy.
A provocative comment notes that many women engage in foolish behavior to spurn those who do not imitate them, reflecting social dynamics and reputational risk in female peer groups.
Advertises Ely's Liquid Cream Balm 18 prepared for sufferers with nasal catarrh using an atomizer spray. Claims healing and soothing properties of Cream Ale retained and does not dry secretions. Price 75 cents including spraying tube. Available at druggists or Blg Bros New York 56 Warren Street by mail.
A collage of 1901 ads mentions Dean's Ointment for scalp eczema, Piso's Cure for consumption, Burdock Blood Bitters, and a water supply project from Solomon's Fountain. It also notes two headed vipers killed in Devonshire and a Tuscany sanitarium sign about the little fathers of the poor.
Official statistics show a drop in wages for working people in the United Kingdom by 7.92 million compared with the previous year, indicating a nationwide decline in earnings for last year.
A Kansas City Star Reporter overhears a dialogue about detecting a barber from his appearance, while a butcher is mistaken for a barber. The section mixes anecdotes on reading people, local notices, and brief items about schools, loans, remedies, and curiosities from England and America.
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