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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
2
Buick engineers designed and forged a front axle in a single piece from special steel bar. Pyrometer controlled heat treatment yields toughness and uniformity. Built complete in Buick factory under supervisors whose reputations depend on its serviceability. From I beam section to steering connections every detail is perfected.
Meridian Garage reports a sensational marriage record as Elder Joseph Hall, a Millstone Kentucky hard-shell Baptist minister, weds Vina Webb for the sixth time at age fifty four after a recent divorce. The piece also notes Raisuli’s confiscated riches by Spanish Morocco and a Newark mother’s suicide driven by poverty and ill health of five children.
A dog attacked four year old Margaret Jane Hoy while she stayed with her parents at Rondale, N. J. The enraged animal killed the girl by tearing open her throat after an incident involving the master kissing the child. The incident is reported alongside commentary on the importance of eyesight tests for railway drivers.
Government advertises Nitro West Virginia as a complete industrial community with 737 manufacturing buildings and housing for 20 000 people. The sale includes the powder plant, chemical works, storage, shops, utilities, and civic amenities built at about 70 million dollars. Bids due September 30, 1919 in Philadelphia.
Mme. Kolchak, widow of the Admiral and Siberia target of Bolshevik threats, lives in Paris with her ten year old son. She fears for their safety as she holds faith in her husband’s just cause, saying progress is slow and allies’ help may take years to arrive. She last heard from him July 11 after a year without news.
On the Taylor farm near La Grange Georgia a Duroc Jersey sow named Lady Florence weighs about 700 pounds and became the first pig to travel by airplane. Bred in a long line of prize porkers she earned this feat in a corkscrew flight arranged by James Taylor a soldier in the aviation service. The pig was securely crated and placed in the after compartment during a stormy journey that set a new high for airborne pork.
German brides married to American soldiers caused a near riot at the Hotel Petrograd in Paris when 22 wives refused to work in the dining room. The brides, en route to Brest for U S embarkation, were told to return after threatening to leave unless no more German brides were sent.
Cy W. Rayhill, a farmer near Pana Illinois, built a grasshopper catcher for 19 dollars. It quickly trapped 18 bushels of grasshoppers, which he feeds to hogs and chickens. He also dries some for winter fowl feed and notes grasshoppers make a high protein feed. The device saved his second clover crop as well.
In Los Angeles Bill from L A A C shows an elderly lady the virtues of a car he sells. He signals turns with an extended arm while the woman watches. She eyes the sky and sternly tells him to focus on driving and warns rain may come.
Nikola I Shinetzoft a former Moscow banker arrived in New York with his wife and a Pomeranian. Blackmailers threatened murder until the dog aided a daring escape using jewels hidden in the collar to bribe guards and a driver, enabling a trek toward Finland.
Max Steinberg a San Francisco shoe store proprietor sues the New Princess French Laundry Co claiming his laundry was withheld, keeping him from church. He cites a dispute over a previously lost bundle and seeks damages.
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