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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
2
The National Geographic account describes Palestinian village life through Bedouin and Fellahin communities. It details housing, guest chambers, childrearing, gender roles, marriage customs, and bride prices ranging from $100 to $400.
Norman S Taber Rhodes Scholar and Brown graduate set a world best four minutes and three-fifths seconds for the mile at Harvard stadium surpassing the previous mark by twenty-three hundredths of a second. The achievement boosts American staying power in long distance events and challenges the notion that Britons excel in endurance runs.
The subway and elevated trains in Manhattan and the Bronx travel daily more than twice the globe’s circumference. This highlights the vast urban transit effort sustaining New York City’s core areas and commuter routes.
Forest service tests a new acetylene signal lantern using Morse telegraph code. Readable by eye up to fifteen miles, and nineteen miles with binoculars at reception. Gas from carbide and water, three hours of signaling, adjustable tank at back. Continuous flame during long key depressions produces distinct flashes.
In a brief exchange Mr Meekton notes his wife supports votes for women yet doubts she would approve a plan letting some women she knows vote on equal terms. The wit highlights social hierarchy within suffrage debates.
A fragmentary column mixes quotes on finicky taste and social manners. It mentions an Amboise relic from an English lady and a shy spinster who climbed the Alps, with notes on diction and cultural quips. A farmer comments on Josh knowing plant science but missing the psychological effect of a red necktie on a bull.
A vivid orange horse with canary eyes, sky-blue mane, green tail, and a gold toothed mouth allegedly appeared on Chicago’s South Side near Fifty third street and Indiana Avenue. A woman from Peru Indiana described the creature as limping on a right forefoot and wielding a meat cleaver in the left.
The article recounts how Nobel, while treating a finger with collodion, mixed it with nitroglycerin and formed a jelly like mass. This led to blasting gelatin containing 90 percent nitroglycerin and 10 percent soluble guncotton, a major advance in handling dangerous explosives.
Marlboro Massachusetts telephone operators sleep in the exchange building during rest periods between 7 p m and 7 a m Judge J W McDonald says they sleep while on break but still work twelve hours daily The state board of labor and industries pressed the case and fined manager Frank A Wilson 50 dollars for violating hours of labor for women an appeal was taken in Wilsons behalf
Paderewski arrives in a western town and learns of Miss Jones piano lessons. He visits, plays the Chopin nocturne, and spends an hour helping her. Months later he returns and sees a sign boasting pupil of Paderewski with lessons at one dollar an hour.
Dr Richard Pearson Strong, famed for quelling typhus in Serbia, returns to Harvard Medical School as professor of tropical medicine. Born Fortress Monroe Virginia March 18 1872, he trained at Johns Hopkins, served as assistant surgeon starting July 23 1898, and conducted plague research in the Philippines and China.
The article details rubber expansion in Malaya from 1897 onward with 350 acres planted by 1897, rapid acreage growth each year, a surge in 1906 as demand rose, and 150000 additional acres alienated that year. By 1912 total rubber area reached 621621 acres, ending 1912 with 1055 estates over 100 acres each and an average yield of 260 pounds per acre.
War influences Paris veil styles as women embrace bold designs. The two common patterns are a black cannon woven into the mesh at the cheek and a white beauty spot shaped like the Red Cross on a black background.
The J P Morgan estate at Glen Cove remains under heavy guard through the war. Three men patrol by day and four by night. One sentry stands at the bridge linking Hast Island to the mainland, screening every traveler and package before passage. The remaining guards patrol the beaches.
The piece notes Germany's provision for employing crippled soldiers involves buying two large landed estates near Magdeburg. Each estate would supply plots for growing vegetables and fruit aimed at easy sale in the Magdeburg market. One estate costs $375,000 and the other about the same.
Harwich Massachusetts reports a humorous tale about Manuel Tonio owner of brown Leghorn hens. He fed scraps including coffee grains causing insomnia and night crowing. One rooster died after a days of strange behavior. Ten hens drowned in the rain. Further updates promised.
Three cows owned by Ben I. Perry north of Columbus Indiana died after ingesting dynamite left in a box for stump blasting. The explosions did not occur. investigators report ten sticks of 40 percent dynamite in two cows and the remaining two also died.
Harvey Sheets, barber shop owner in Muncie Indiana, testified he drinks 36 pint bottles of beer daily when business is brisk and he is not feeling well. He was charged with operating a blind tiger after police seized beer and observed many empties. The judge pressed about drinking as the case moved toward acquittal.
Noblesville Indiana resident J Wesley Williams was involved in a roadside collision with a car driven by John Bert a former county treasurer. Williams suffered severe back injuries and his spring wagon was wrecked. In the past six years he has been shot five times with two prior occasions deemed life threatening by doctors.
Report from Holliday west of Hannibal details the marriage of Miss Mary Porter and James E. Burton. The couple, though tiny in stature, plans to travel with popular show acts. Burton is forty years old and 1 inch taller than Porter who is twenty six. Their combined height and weight are far from impressive and rumors of a show tour accompany the ceremony.
An early 20th century ad promotes Cuticura Soap shampoo to purify the scalp and remove dandruff while Cuticura Ointment soothes irritated skin. It touts dandruff as a hair destroyer and invites readers to sample free by mailing a B Address postcard to Cuticura, Dept. Boston, with sales advertised widely.
A parent asks if sending a son back to college this fall is worth it. The other replies that it costs nothing to keep him at home and suggests letting him loaf there instead of returning to campus.
A fragment hints at a passenger aboard a craft pursued by a submarine while referencing a superior’s conduct. The lines suggest a wartime or nautical anecdote with unspecified names or locations. The limited readable text focuses on tension between authority and a trailing chase incident.
A short reflective note observes that hasty marriages often lead to later regret and that a stepmother’s position is fraught with difficulties, presenting the worst possible outcomes in some cases.
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