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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
2
Practical advice to prevent drownings stresses preparation and seaworthiness. Key points include carrying life preservers an anchor a paddle and extra oars. entering boats safely distributing weight. avoiding gunwale stepping. landing at angle staying over the keel. using stern to lift or assist. do not climb back into a capsized boat and minimize resistance when being towed or helped to shore.
A series of childlike comebacks and misinterpretations at a church event. Children quiz teachers about epistles and sea rivers, while one student misdescribes bread travel as a cough pipe, and another notes folding beds in the tale of the man who walked.
A physician argues for keeping open fireplaces in rooms rather than modern furnaces. He says wire places and chimneys vent air and that open fires offer beauty and sanitary benefits by circulating and driving out germs, questioning furnace preference.
Workmen clearing channels for the Muhlbrunn spring unearthed a new hot mineral spring twenty two feet below ground surface. The discovery adds to Carlsbad’s long list of hot springs and enhances the spa’s prospects.
A London Mail quip presents a man in a bind with his girlfriend. He fears gentle words inflate her ego. If he stops compliments she may believe he no longer cares, yet continuing could make her seem conceited and distant.
An old advertisement claims Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills relieve constipation and indigestion, purify blood, and improve complexions. One pill acts as a gentle laxative, two as a strong physic, with a 25 cent price posted for mail order from Munyon's Remedy Co.
Two month old land venture offers over 30 business sites amid rich agricultural country. Features include a wine business, residence lots, and farm lands with easy terms, highlighting Morristown Land Co as the town site developer.
An advertisement urges readers to send 10 cents for antiseptic Eye Glass cleaner named LENS-WISPE, with a Buffalo New York P. O. Box address for orders, warning that dirty glasses will ruin eyes.
Erello Farmer Greenwood Co Kansas promotes farms and best corn alfalfa cattle and hay country in West. Offers list and prices to P D Stoughton Madison Kansas. Notes Alberta wheat production 20 000 000 bushels and Saskatchewan potential. Mentions Manchuria bean products and railway value overall.
A compact digest notes wages spent on food by an English worker two a three fifths. It cites whooping cough deaths among under fives and mine rescue laws in France and Austria. It mentions baya bird nesting glow, Cuba’s insects, a huge locomotive, a Mary C Thaw booklet on Stanford White ties, and tigers in India fed by cattle with high upkeep costs.
An old newspaper snippet promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for women’s health during the Change of Life, with testimonials from Mrs. Holland of Noah Ky. and claims of relief from nervous prostration and headaches. It also includes short curiosities on diet and travel, mentioning fruitarian ideas and daily life details.
A reader recounts how switching from coffee to Postum improved his health after years of heavy coffee use. He describes stomach weakness, nerve issues, and eventual recovery once he stopped coffee and began Postum, praising its effect and recommending the product.
Wayne county teachers institute met in Wayne on Monday August 23 with attendance rising from ninety five to over one hundred by week’s end. Herman district voters rejected a 16000 bond for a new schoolhouse by eight votes. Filley team won 18 of 21 games this season, last beating Vesta 15 to 9. Beat rice reports the marriage of Harry Goble of Beat Rice to Miss Ethel Robb of Great Falls Montana, noting Goble’s success in the Flathead Indian reservation drawing.
Mr and Mrs Michael Falk Jr of Beatrice marked their golden anniversary with a 200 guest gathering at their West Beatrice residence. They have four children and are grandparents to 23 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Threshing progresses well with satisfactory yield. Wheat yields range from fifteen to thirty bushels per acre, with eats twenty five to forty bushels. Barley yields run twenty to thirty five bushels per acre.
Gus Jensen of R. E. Roberts was hit by freight train No. 60 on the Northwestern near Arlington while crossing a private track. The wagon was wrecked and Jensen sustained a broken arm.
A fire swept a shed used for grain storage along the track near Third avenue at Kearney. Firefighters reached the scene but the structure burned to ashes before containment, with only adjoining buildings saved from the blaze.
No rain since July 4th has damaged Beatrice corn crops by half. Prospects for rain remain bleak, risking further loss without timely showers.
A force of men is at work between Kearney and Hastings laying telephone lines for depots. Telegraph instruments will be replaced, and the telephone will be used exclusively.
The Democrats of Nebraska City plan a September primary to nominate precinct officers. The event aims to organize local party leadership and voter participation in the county.
The twenty first annual Beatrice chautauqua opened Wednesday evening to a large audience. An excellent program featured the Dunbar quartet, with Rev. A G Brown as platform superintendent. The Beatrice Military Band will provide music and there will be no day sessions as the assembly runs through Saturday night.
About a year after a tornado left him badly injured Shively fell from a barn roof while working on a shoulder repair. He suffered three broken ribs and lung hemorrhage with such seriousness that he could not be moved home and his wife was summoned to assist.
Wachter Hardware and John King are constructing brick structures to replace frame buildings destroyed by fire at Pender, aiming for a sturdier look. Summer apples are unusually abundant around Herman, with heavy fruit on trees and a lack of buyers. Some orchards report ground covered with apples destined for waste.
In McKee’s Rocks gloom over rioting deaths deepens as funeral processions follow the Greek Catholic church to St Marys cemetery. Debs visits but calls events futile as martial law covers the strike zone and 11 dead with 2 more expected to die.
President Taft will consider L GlaVis charges alleging Interior Department officials aided Cunningham claims to Alaska coal lands. Interior officials, led by Commissioner Dennett, resist outside discussion while preparing their official report. The dispute ties to the forestry service and debate over paint durability guidance follows unrelated ad copy.
Fire of unknown origin devastates Curtis Nebraska area, harming R Dempsey store with 400 dollar loss no insurance, Mrs Jenkins millinery 1000 without insurance, J W Adams department store 40000 building insured, R Clint stock damage 500, J W Eidgway building 706.
Fairbury representatives from labor and fraternal groups met to plan a Labor Day picnic on Monday September 6. Officers were elected and invitations sent to statewide speakers in labor and fraternal circles. Attendees aim to involve Jefferson and nearby counties.
An express wagon delivered nine black barrels and a large box containing Roosevelt hunting expedition trophies from Africa to the Smithsonian. Secretary Rathbun was startled to see crates marked with the initials T. R. painted in white and lava visible from a city block away, with more to come.
Seward Nebraska Lon Welch aged twenty five was found dead behind C W Faltons drug store after moving a cream freezer to the front. Physicians think heart disease caused the death. An inquest was held. He was the son of Mrs S N Welch of Seward.
A blaze engulfs a 2500 acre marsh in Milwaukee killing 300 people? No. Three hundred? This is messy OCR. Within a day the fire causes an estimated loss of 25000 dollars and threatens adjacent property as three hundred people? To correct: The report states 300 men women and children fighting the fire, with 25000 dollars damage and surrounding properties at risk.
Edward McDonell of Fairbury Neb was drawn in three government land drawings during a Northwest trip. His No 190 Coeur d Alene district claim is valued at about 20000, with no gift in the final drawing.
In Humboldt a hayrack carrying Methodist Sunday school children to a picnic overturned on a seven foot embankment. Valmeda Wilder age 12 and Ruth Faucett age 16 died. Fifteen others were injured, some seriously, as the wagon backed over the hill. William Wallace, the driver and a retired farmer, is grief stricken in the town.
President Taft seeks clear separation of census work from politics. Acting Secretary McHarg received a letter from Mr Carr to President, stating that census supervisors who hold political positions must resign from either their political or government post.
Fort Dodge report states Enid Gill Anderson and two other campers died after two weeks of illness with peritonitis. Two remaining girls were seriously ill with possible appendicitis and another undiagnosed condition, believed linked to contaminated spring water during camping near the farm.
Commerce Commission faces a potential Supreme Court appeal from the Chicago circuit Court ruling in the Missouri rate case. Southern Pacific challenges the Hepburn era regulation of railroad rates, with the court to decide if Congress can regulate rates across vast routes and how carriers should set intermediate rates.
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