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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1909
Page
2
A Providence Tribune report quotes a college graduate waiter noting how higher living costs change dining out. He says diners now scrutinize dishes, cut back on leftovers, and deprive proprietors of profit as plates are cleaned and wasted less, revealing shifts in meals at upscale hotels.
Sir Frederick Bridge, noted English musician, lectured at Gresham College on seventeenth century instruments from the South Kensington collection. He traced Hebrew terms to real meanings, showed sackbuts as large harps, trumpets without mechanisms, and shawns as forerunners of the hautboy and bassoon.
Parisian high society women form an Anti-Corset League to banish stays and curb tight lacing. The movement gains sympathy from prominent men and women, doctors, and authors like Marcel Prevost and Tassy et Gyp, with 50,000 pamphlets distributed though enrollment remains tepid. Dressmakers scorn the movement while designers prepare wasp waisted gowns for autumn.
A brief theater exchange shows Bones refusing a box for four as Jensk complains about a ringing mix up and theater hours. The understudy asserts a limit to holding seats.
The piece reviews Dame Fashion’s Jersey Waist attached to a full kilted skirt in black voile and satin with a satin waist and front opening over a satin petticoat. It notes lingerie waists with tucks, net yokes, roomy armholes, parasol handles with kid, crinoline and coarse straw weaves, and long corsets with minimal curves.
A Terre Haute woman writes of four years with digestive distress after typhoid, claiming Grape Nuts lets her eat anytime with nourishment and satisfaction. Her husband improves after substituting Grape Nuts, and their son favors it at school. The letters promote Grape Nuts as a nutritious staple with the slogan There’s a Reason.
Willimantic Connecticut woman recounts five years of female troubles and a cure after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Advertisement touts its success for displacements inflammation and other uterine issues and urges readers to try it based on many cures.
An eclectic page note set includes an advertisement touting Alien’s Foot-Ease for foot relief with a Camden New Jersey user testimonial. The page also mentions fashion details on linen pockets and eyelets, new arched shoes, and cherry tones in garments. Additional items report Missouri convict labor on Calloway bottoms, dwindling Forty-Niners, and Belgium postal envelope color codes for Brussels and other targets.
Minnesota woman Mrs A Heiman of Stillwater credits Doan's Kidney Pills with dramatic relief from back pain kidney secretions and near death experience in 1899 Her testimony claims she has been well since and attributes her recovery to the pills Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents a box. Flowers and fashion notes on color collars spring embroidery and floral themes accompany the ad copy.
The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Reservations in South Dakota and North Dakota open in October offering 160 acres of fertile farmland at a small price per acre. Registration is available at Aberdeen on the Cuicaco line and Mobridge Lemmon on the Cuicaco line. registration runs through October 23 with a drawing in Aberdeen on October 26. A Descriptive folder is free and a Pacific Coast rail excursion is suggested via the Milwaukee and St Paul Railway.
New York reports an elusive brief message from Dr Frederick A Cook to his wife said to prove safety. Copenhagen confirms Cook reaches the north pole on April 21 1908 aboard Hans Egede with aid from Danish and Greenland officials and Esquimaux confirm his journey.
Seven children, inmates at St Malachi s home for children in Rockaway Park Long Island, suffocated when a dormitory wing over the laundry burned. Fire started in the north wing, most young victims under five. Rescue efforts saved many, with shelter found at nearby Hebrew home and hotels. Damages estimated at 25000 dollars. Another report notes Arthur Winterstein 26 shot Stella Friedman 15 in a candy store. mother and aunt injured, suspect captured.
Lewiston Pennsylvania reports a lone masked robber boarded the Pittsburg and Northern express at Lewiston and forced the train crew to open the express car. Despite thousands in the car the thief is believed to have taken about 100 dollars in pennies and escaped up the mountains with bloodhounds deployed to track him. Conductor I R Poffenberger was wounded in the hand as the robber fired on the crew and dynamite charges were found along the tracks indicating intent to blow the train. Local detective forces from Baltimore and Ohio joined the hunt as the suspect fled with bags of money piled beside the rails. The train, with two engines, three express cars and two sleepers, stopped when signaled and resumed after the heist.
Painter Saunders collapses from heat in Nebraska City and is hospitalized with a broken wrist and internal injuries. Fatal accident near Sutton as R. Atchison is crushed by a locomotive. Fire destroys Lyons and Wood Co. in Sutherland, about 20000 dollars in losses. Norfolk warms then cools from 98 to 40 degrees. Unidentified man found on Union Pacific track near Fremont, described as a dark complexioned tramp. Ansley corn expected at 60 percent of last year. St Paul barn and Archer hail damage. Rainfall eases drought near Kearney. new Democratic paper to start at McCook. Central City reports three inches of rain. Archer hay lands flooded. Nehawka drought ends with 0.75 inch rain aiding late crop. Dorchester rain aids fall plowing. Fremont wallet theft of 51 dollars at the Brunswick. Schuyler appoints W J Allen county judge. Burlington layoffs for care and theft of freight tides. Malone investigates leading to Olsen and Steiner confessions.
The body of Mrs. Edward Lukes wife of a Hull Packing Company time keeper was found in a weed clump in Pittsburg. Her head showed severe blows and a bloodied iron bolt lay beside her. Hull told police his wife left home Saturday after a quarrel to go to her father's home in Joplin.
Nashville police report a surge of odorless drunks dubbed the "odorless drunk." Suspects are brought in daily and claim they drank "Beerette," though it is not considered intoxicating. Many arrive without bottles, with 41 drunks on the police dock on a single day.
Orville Wright conducted a fifteen minute test flight above the Tempelhof parade ground in Berlin shortly after daylight. He planned a public exhibition next Thursday and observed favorable performance while a guards battalion paused drills to watch the circling aircraft.
Diamonds valued at 12000 dollars were stolen from Mrs. Adolph Hirsch at the Vendome hotel. She carried the handbag into the dining room for luncheon and found it missing after returning to her room. Detectives were assigned but no tangible clue was obtained.
John C Sanders, 55, from Dayton Ohio, was arrested in New Albany Indiana on a bigamy charge. Police say the pension department information shows four wives. He arrived with Lucretia Daugherty, wed in Dayton four months ago, and Isador Reason, who married Sanders two years ago, has filed a pending suit.
J T Reynolds of Crete Nebraska has created a simple inexpensive device now in the patent office that could reduce wrecks. A portable track device would stop trains at any point for flagmen, with potential to rival the automatic brake and automatic coupler, possibly worth thousands to the owner.
An earthquake hit Rome with no reported casualties. Minor damage includes cracks to the facade of the chapel Santa Anna. The tremor was felt most in the city’s upper quarters, while crowds in hospitals and prisons grew anxious until officials reassured the public.
A slow steady rain drenched the Beatrice and Cass county area. Though late for corn it will greatly help pastures and boost revival of grazing grounds. The rainfall around Fairbury was likewise welcome and will prime fields for fall plowing after four weeks without meaningful moisture.
Two and a quarter inches of rain fell in Fremont as Dodge county was soaked from border to border by copious showers. Farmers pleased the rain will improve ground for winter wheat. The Board of Supervisors in Beatrice set county levy at 114 mills, up 4 mills, producing 126943 for county expenses versus 83562 last year.
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