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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
2
In a Chicago Daily News excerpt, Billy and his father debate gifts for a mother’s birthday. Billy resists common presents and unveils a plan to make a dish decorated with cigar bands, assembled quickly and hidden in Billy’s room, ready for the party.
Clyde Fitch recalls George Bernard Shaw writing blistering theatre critiques in London. A reader shares Shaw’s mock review from the Opera Comique where the critic confesses missing the ending due to a forgotten program and apologizes to the management for not judging the work.
A fragmented 19th century style piece describes a bold villain killing a maiden with a knife after forgetting his revolver, followed by a grim aside and the dying cry Oh my God I’m shot. A stray note about a table d hote dinner and a reflected line on curiosity ends with a cautionary line about learning.
Lame back and lumbago make a young man feel old. Hamlins Wizard Oil relieves pain. Noel Provost returned from Lincoln after visiting friends. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething soothes gums and calms pain. Summer suits in brown and greenish hues. Bavarians drink 200 quarts of beer yearly per person. Patrick Brown dies at 101, survived by a 106-year-old widow. An enraged bull calms to fiddling sounds. Roger Kelly, deaf mute and near blind, graduates to practice before North Carolina's supreme court. Rev B Hillier travels to Hastings for a church camp. Dick Shipp loses a horse to heat. Seven people die from heat in Omaha. Lincoln Star notes a bedridden mother and Mrs Lang departing home.
An advertisement touts a $10 value hair remedy for 50 cents with money back guarantee from LENOX Co. at 19 Ilosciosko St Manistee Michigan. Fashion trends note pale shades fading while pointed waists return after empire lines. An atlas of rail facts mentions Alaska's rail length and a sand health claim. Consul McCullough reports a Grand Falls electrical plant project costing 5 million dollars, 120000 horsepower, powering Maine and New Brunswick, plus plans for new factories including a pulp mill.
Morristown South Dakota promotes two month old development with over 30 business places and extensive agricultural land. The notice advertises fine business and residence lots and farm lands with easy terms offered by Morristown Land Co town site agents.
A booklet explains SAPEST investment in the world and includes complete reports by Prof. Kimball. C H McKEOWN, Fiscal Agent, 415 Hippodrome Building, Cleveland Ohio, offers the booklet free.
Nebraska notes report Kansas City Star cup motor race organizers will arrive in Beatrice to map the route for a 100-car tour beginning September 20 from Kansas City. A four person party completed a 5000 mile endurance trip from Detroit via Chicago Quincy St Joseph and Kansas City with a puncture free run. The Old Settlers picnic in Custer county’s southwest quarter will be at Callaway with Rev Charles W Savidge as speaker. Albion Chautauqua attendance and lectures by Thomas H Green on Japan receive praise. Boone County Fair Association marks silver anniversary with record farm exhibits and race money. special trains run September 16 14 to 17. Beatrice council plans street improvements including tar coating for dust control. Charles Brewster Kit of Beatrice named Nebraska marksman for Camp Perry Ohio. Nels Hawkinson Hendley charged with horse theft. 18 year old admits guilt. Mrs Bruno Meints died northwest of Beatrice at 44, survived by husband and eight children.
C G Livengood living near Wymore was jailed on a complaint by his father G W Livingood charging carrying a revolver for bodily harm. The defendant was arraigned with no prosecution, placed under 500 dollar bond, and jailed in default of daily to await preliminary hearing.
Mrs. Tita W. Leners wife of Ran kin J. Leners died at her home twelve miles northwest of Beatrice from tuberculosis. She was 23 and survived by her husband and three children.
County officials will consider petitions requesting a November vote on dividing Custer county. The petitions carry over 2,500 signatures for the potential change. Beatrice Pearl Coons of Beatrice Beatrice is mourned after cholera infantum death at relatives' home. Petitions reflect local civic action and growing interest in county realignment.
Mrs Ellen Bresner of Hastings suffered severe burns to face and head in a gasoline explosion. One ore was badly burned. Joseph Wackle, 19, son of Nicholas Wackle a farmer north of West Point, died by suicide with a shotgun after a period of illness. The report notes his declining health and disability.
In WHITE PLAINS Harry K Thaw was moved to Matteawan Prison after a farewell with his mother in the jail consultation room. He criticized Judge Mills and Drs Meyers Schmidt and Baker and urged appeals while Mrs Thaw argued for transfer to a sane asylum and release for his acquittal.
Denver hosts a trans MississippIal commercial congress where Col Ike Pryor urges equitable revisions of fall and ocean rates between New York and Denver. Speakers Thomas F Walsh and John Barrett push western land irrigation and closer US Latin American trade ties. The discussion covers ocean mail service, banks, and tariff impacts on commerce with the Americas.
Long Island life savers battled six hours to rescue seven crewmen from the Boston schooner Arlington after it ran ashore near Long Beach in heavy rain and fog. Captain Ira Small and the crew were saved, a Swede, Madden Pierson, was swept out to sea but reached shore five miles away. The ship bound for Mayport, Florida, carried anthracite and struck a sandbar in a gale. Arlington will be a total loss. Hotel Nassau guests helped with subscriptions, raising about two hundred dollars.
In Atlanta Governor Brown approved a Georgia law prohibiting negro secret societies from using whites' insignia rituals and grips. The measure effectively disbands negro Elks and Knights of Pythias while allowing negro Masons and Odd Fellows to continue with changed badges and rites.
In Omaha, President Fellman and Secretary Stone of the anti saloon league told the fire and police board that saloon windows were obstructed by plants and vines. The board ordered the police chief to remove all obstructions and enforce the state law.
Charles Knapp charged with shooting his wife with intent to kill was bound over to the fall term of the district court in 2000 bail posted by his brothers Jake and John. He has engaged local attorneys to defend him. Firemen Preparing For Examination. Fremont firemen prepare to pass Northwestern engineer exams in Chicago in October.
Governor A C Shallenberger of Nebraska spoke at the Alaska Yukon Pacific event in Seattle as Nebraskans celebrated their state day. Formal exercises occurred in the New York building and a banquet with additional governors was planned for the evening.
Miss Lena Barney says she knows at least one attacker but will not reveal his name. She was shot in the back while fleeing three men who assaulted her fiancé Peter Weisberger near Pittsburg Kansas. Doctors fear paralysis if she survives and officials press to identify the foreigners believed to be involved in the mining area.
In Little Rock Arkansas R K Stevenson cashier at Rose City Bank collapsed from paralysis leaving a note that the bank shortage is ten thousand dollars. Stevenson's wife found the paper and gave it to bank officials.
New York report says Theodore Roosevelt Jr Lloyd Griscom former ambassador to Italy and James Deering harvest machine manufacturer were elected members of the Aero club of America Young Roosevelt an enthusiastic aviator will soon make a balloon ascent with A Holland Forbes
Coroners jury finds criminal negligence caused the Denver & Rio Grande collision at Husted Colorado. Ten people were killed and sixty injured. Verdict names engineers Lessig and Hollingsworth fireman Wright conductor Dalton and brakeman Melsthern. order sent to Denver to arrest.
Tommy Walsh, a ten year old boy from Armourdale, wandered from a farm house near Junction City, Kansas. He reached a farm four miles away at noon two days later, nearly exhausted and starved after wandering through cornfields and woods. Fort Riley cavalry troops searched all night and another squadron joined in the morning.
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