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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1893
Page
3
A fragmented notice describes someone in the woods attempting to snare wild pigeons from a tree using a knife and branch. The tale notes fear among onlookers and mentions carrying the captured birds into town.
A fragmentary poem celebrates happiness and nature with repeated refrain Why not be happy too featuring flowers, creatures, and rapture. The text references native decians and common law ideas while exploring joy through imagery of bees and equirul. The piece centers on a plea to share happiness.
Philip Leslie loses Gertrude Ware to Harry Belt but discovers true love with Gerty Ware. After a dramatic chase for an injunction, Leslie departs in heartbreak, only to return with Gertrude’s confession of love and a marriage proposal, sealing Ware & Leslie as partners.
An old trunk, valued by collectors, surfaced in a dealer’s shop. The weathered case bore a Pearl Street delivery note and lined with a 1773 Philadelphia newspaper exposing the year’s tax list in pounds shillings and pence.
The text describes Spanish bullfights where ladies make decorated banderillas and monas for the bull. The monas resemble silk caps with flowers and long streamers, with an iron barb concealed beneath. After use the ornaments become trophies for matadors and are given as gifts, often accompanied by money.
A garbled note discusses England's climate and moisture affecting growth and rock hardness. It suggests softened rocks influence the wear of bridges and churches and even notes how ordinary objects like penknives could cut initials, reflecting a dated, fragmented observation on environment and preservation.
A dark-eyed guest from Arizona tells of riding into Tucson, a sandstorm, and a lightning encounter. The storyteller claims presence of mind returned just in time to dodge doom, offering a dramatic rescue under the blazing storm.
A man rescues his former guardian and lover at Coronado Beach, but drowns in a strong current while bringing the drowning man to safety. The incident reveals a long romance and a complex past ending with tragedy.
A London Review article traces how the term buncombe shifted from a literal place based boast to a general American mockery of patriotic speech. It contrasts American Irish and English oratory, noting American pride in statistics and the English suspicion of self praise, with historical context and language change.
A Philadelphia Press interview captures a mother's plea for gentler bedtime tales. She laments lurid hobgoblins and ogres that shape a child's imagination and urges parents to tell calm, reassuring stories with friendly themes to ease the transition to sleep.
The nominal pay of a British private is one shilling a day, but deductions for rations and washing reduce the cash to about half that, leaving roughly one dollar a week in actual payment.
The text discusses irrigation expansion, noting 25,000,000 irrigated acres in India, 6,000,000 in Egypt, 5,000,000 in Europe, and 4,000,000 in the United States. It blends other fragmented remarks on social scenes and miscellaneous notes.
A German scientist notes more women with facial hair today than in the past. In Constantinople one in ten women shows upper lip hair, Madrid reports a similar proportion, and Philadelphia a physician finds three percent of women mustached. Mr. Mott suggests this signals human evolution toward pervasive hair.
A young woman is introduced to Mrs Croly as the sister of a renowned artist, prompting astonishment at their striking facial resemblance. The exchange includes a remark that the woman is actually the sister-in-law, noted amid discussion of the surprising likeness. The excerpt ends with James Fraser, a barrender in a New York saloon, described as eight feet three inches tall.
The Philadelphia Press notes the four years six months sentence for Mrs Mary A Taggart who killed her son in a moment of exhausted irritability after a day of repeated washings and lifting heavy water. The piece argues there was no intent to kill and urges mitigation of the punishment as a cautionary tale for parents.
Sir Edward Reed proposes constructing railroad channels across the British Channel using steel plate and concrete tubes twenty feet in diameter. The tubes would be built in sections joined afloat, then sunk and completed underwater, a method already tested in America for salt water crossing projects.
In a playful exchange a husband asserts angels never paint while his wife retorts that every angel he has seen was painted. He concedes only by calling her an angel, admitting at least one painted angel exists.
The world’s inhabited history is acknowledged with over 3,000 prehistoric buildings found in Sardinia. Most lie in fertile zones, formed in clusters, separated by wide barren stretches.
An oak in the Imperial gardens at St. Petersburg sprouted from an acorn taken from the Mount Vernon tomb tree. It was planted fifty years ago by George Sumner of Boston, brother of Charles Sumner.
An article discusses chronic nervous weakness and insomnia linked to stomach issues. It claims Holstattar's Stomach Bitters can calm nerves, restore sleep, and relieve faintness and constipation by stabilizing digestion. It warns narcotics worsen conditions and promotes the remedy as a stabilizing treatment.
A peddler touts Alaska spaniel dogs to a lady, claiming the breed is prized and long valued in Alaska. The price is quoted at $50, then a discount of 80 percent drops to $2.50, noting a shortage of ladies in Alaska and an abundance of dogs.
An advertisement touts Breenams Pis as the replacement for a complete medicine chest and urges keeping them in every family as a standard item. Each box is priced at 25 cents.
A discussion explains pepsin is prepared from gastric juice in hogs. It notes hogs digest many substances, and starving hogs for twenty four hours yields more gastric juice and pepsin. The article reassures readers that the method of procurement may affect how pepsin acts on digestion.
Dr Henry Cooper recounts a Canadian farm tale about a boy named Ulappen Happen to be, a pun on his given name. The piece ends with an ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure claiming blood and mucous effects and urging readers to ask their druggist for it.
In Alabama a campaign tale recalls a candidate kissing the boss miner's wife after a speech at the Blue Creek mines and leading a dance. The rival acted similarly and kissed her twice. The boss miner grew tired of the proceedings.
An old advertised teething remedy for babies named Mas Winarow’s Soorsinc Srror is touted as effective. The pamphlet notes that each error by a wise man teaches him a lesson.
Residents of Llanfairwilgwyngyllger trobwilgerchwynn byligogerbwli zan tivsiliogogogoch learn the spelling can be shortened to Llanfairpwilgwyngyligoerychwynndrebwlltyssiliogogo. The change reduces the long place name to a simpler form while keeping the recognizable root.
A historical snippet describes aphasia as a queer complaint causing memory loss or speech confusion. It notes a man forgetting his sister’s name and humorously substituting another unrelated name, illustrating language distortion.
Idaho Springs in Deer Creek Canon Colorado claims to offer veritable Healion waters for the people and is recommended by physicians for consumptives. The text notes a kind word can do more than a cannon ball.
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