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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
5
The record lists cattle and livestock including a bay mare and brown mares, a 3 year old sorrel mare, a sucking mule, a Percheron stallion, a thoroughbred breast cattle showing a Milford bull, five milk cows with several coming fresh in winter, two yearling heifers, a bear hog, 24 pigs and 15 brood sows. It also notes an iron table and a wardrobe among goods.
Osceola residents and visitors share news of travel and social visits. Families from Lincoln Omaha and Denver attended church events and paid calls. many appearances at Powells, Timm and Hubbard households. Shultz, Beebe, Campbells and Dolans appear in various trips. a busy scene of weddings, illnesses, and church gatherings centers on Grace E M E Epworth League and local civic life.
Heroic Lynn sergeant Hercules Korgis, five feet tall, led a surprise capture on his first day of action near Vierzy, marching 256 Germans including eight officers to regimental prison. He speaks several languages, earned Croix de Guerre and Medaille Militaire, and received a home welcome from Lynn citizens at Camp Devens. He previously ran a West Lynn restaurant before enlisting in Syracuse, New York. He was wounded in the neck, saved by peers, and later escorted for surrender negotiations with French and American troops. Officers of the Second Division and friends in New England praise his feat.
John Rasmussen, 75, a Civil War Navy veteran and Lincoln sighting witness, views the captured German submarine UC 97 at the Chicago municipal pier. He compares its mechanisms with Civil War monitors and recalls the 1861 64 siege days and Lincoln's assassination after learning the craft’s steering and control systems.
A survey reported by the Pittsburgh Dispatch correspondent shows New York City July 1 population at 6,244,616, up 31 percent since 1910. The report lists 120,188 Negro residents, 1,206,926 native White, 2,384,384 foreign White, and 2,525,202 foreign born. Males 3,121,051 and females 3,123,565. Voting-age males 1,878,211. illiterates over ten 333,012. The twenty largest U.S. cities are led by New York.
An Institute de France member Adrien Blanchet notes ancient history and modern enterprise intersect in a study about Charles IX and the Arles sarcophagi later moved toward Paris. In 1565 the sarcophagi sank near Pont Saint Esprit during transport. The Rhone water power project contemplates possibly transforming the Pont Saint Esprit site amid excavations.
Riverside groups led by the Daughters of the Revolution and the Pioneer society plan to restore the Rubidoux home an adobe built by Indian labor about 75 years ago. The building once a social center will anchor a pioneer museum housing relics from early Southern California days.
Maj Cushman A Rice of Minnesota known as the Soldier of Fortune drops in on Senator Knute Nelson on his way home from war. Nelson urges Rice to quit roaming and enter politics while Rice challenges action by offering to go to Russia if a chance is fixed. The exchange ends with Rice pledging to act if given the chance.
Hiram Johnson hosts two legends in the California Senate corridor. Walter Johnson and Ty Cobb mingle with lawmakers while Jim Phelan asks staff who Cobb is, receiving a blunt reply that Cobb plays ball for a living. Johnson enjoys the ballplayer’s company during the visit.
In a Chicago Tribune note sent by a reader, a man recalls a blush worthy moment aboard a train. Marie Hemming, his friend and the mother of his chum, wore a bright red sweater that shed lint onto his coat. She helped pick it off as they sat with Mrs Hemming and the father, creating a memorable minor embarrassment.
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