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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1921
Page
2
A national survey of 877 cities criticizes red tape and political interference in boards of education. It reports 64 percent of current spending on teacher salaries totaling 180 million dollars and 85 percent of capital outlay for sites and new buildings.
In New York a giant rat attacked John Bolte as he cared for his five year old daughter Leonore who had swallowed rat poison. After a five minute struggle neighbors arrived and killed the rodent estimated as large as a cat. The child is expected to recover. The rat appeared in the Bolte bathroom about a week earlier and cats fled at the sight of the creature.
Captain Roald Amundsen aims to drift past the north pole on the Maud with a future wireless setup. He left Nome for Seattle where repairs are planned and expects to sail again next summer, relying on a northeasterly current from Cape Serdze to reach the Atlantic. The crew includes Dr. H. V. Sverdup and Oscar Wisting, with seven natives.
In Gilbert Minnesota Harry Woodard nearly drowned as Roy Rhodda swam 300 yards to shore after a boat carrying five overturned. Rhodda said two companions used his wooden legs to help reach land.
A London dustman survived nearly eight hours after breath stopped, with his heart still beating. Doctors noted brain tumors can halt respiration while the heart persists and debated the moment of death as a nerve center issue remains unexplained.
A. B. Twanning of Nantucket, Mass., after 12 days adrift in a disabled 42 foot motorboat off Nantucket, was rescued by fishermen near Melinic Island. Exhausted and nearly starved, he had only fruit and scant rainwater, and at one point considered cutting off a toe for bait to survive.
Beetown resident Doll was severely injured when a car tire exploded after he scratched a dirt bubble on the tire. The blast hurled dirt and sand into his eyes at 700 pounds pressure, leaving him probably permanently blind.
A fragment notes certain seaweeds contain as much as 49 percent sugar by composition. The text suggests high sugar content varies among seaweed types.
A surgical operation 200 miles at sea was directed by wireless from Brooklyn. Dr Raymond Barrett guided the tanker Vesta crew led by the captain who removed infected tissue with improvised tools after anesthesia. The operation, judged a success, was prompted by an injured sailor requesting aid.
Pekin University will introduce a tannery course with a twelve hour weekly lab requirement. The program will use modern leather working machinery from the United States and updated tanning chemicals and dyes. Dr. H.8 Vincent and John Wang will lead the instruction.
Dr EB Hall is set to receive a $10,000 homestead in Attica as a reward for kindness during visits, under the will of Mrs Caroline Hawk who died here recently. Mrs Sardena Hawk, her nurse, receives a life interest in another residence.
Nebraska updates include a near 2 million dollar loan for Nye-Schneider-Fowler Co to aid 190 elevators, plus marker events across towns. A Dodge county fair will feature a radio station, prize notices, and wireless concerts while Fairbury hosts all-lady softball teams and local storms cause minor damage. Various agricultural markets, school bond votes, church construction, and railroad fare reductions for Ak-Sar-Ben are noted along with drought resilience and grain movement to Omaha markets.
The long standing Atlantis tale asks if a vast island beyond Africa with cities and strange laws ever existed. Some credit visions of ice ages and sunken lands, suggesting Europe and North America mountains are remnants of Atlantis after floods and earthquakes.
The Wall Street Journal notes pig clubs flourish where country banks fund purchases of distinct ancestry pigs. Young farm boys borrow to buy pigs and repay with profits from prize winnings, soon joining a growing Midwest movement. The scheme boosts future hog production and farm wealth with substantial payouts to producers.
The Manchester Guardian notes Lord Dunsany’s rapid playwriting speed in the Preface to Plays of Birds and Men. A three act tragedy took three days, a two act play two days, and a one act play one day. The Queen’s Enemies lasted six days for a single act. Pond recalls Dunsany at work using enameled paper and a quill pen, blotting pages as he finishes.
Two physics professors at London University test Daily Mail funded oysters pearls to compare ordinary and Japanese pearls. They explore whether a seed pearl inserted into an oyster liver yields a pearl with identical weight color and luster to standard pearls.
The Vatican issued a circular announcing higher charges for papal titles. It lists costs for personal and hereditary titles across Prince Duke Marquis and Baron ranks with amounts from 5 400 to 21 600 lire. Payment is to be made in gold, making a princely title about one hundred thousand lire in value.
A party from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara recounts a trip with a skilled chauffeur until a sudden wide swerve off the road on the return. The driver claimed he did not steer, and they later learned a severe earthquake occurred at that moment.
Evansville Indiana eighteen year old Stella Linxwiler reports relief from irregular periods backaches and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the remedy stopped sickness and drowsiness and urges others with similar symptoms to try it. She permits testimonial use.
A dialogue about feeling in tune with nature. She notes days when hearts beat with the universe and asks if the listener notices it. He agrees that such harmony occurs on many days, describing a shared sense of alignment.
A public notice warns that only Bayer marked Aspirin is genuine and safe as prescribed for colds headaches neuralgia rheumatism earache toothache lumbago and other pains. It notes Bayer tablets come in handy tins of twelve and larger packages are sold by druggists.
John writes that he is doing fine at college this year, according to the old man. He writes easily in Latin as he swears in English and hosted a Greek dinner in honor of the speaker. He clarifies he did not attend. he paid for it in English.
A terse adage notes that wealth or success breeds isolation while misfortune reveals true connections and loyalty. The saying warns that public esteem fades when luck turns, and genuine bonds show only in hardship.
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