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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1883
Page
4
A poem from the Philadelphia Press describes a small black teapot and matching creamer and sugar dish as sources of warmth and contentment during a cold day. The speaker rejects luxury and wine, preferring simple beverages from the teapot on the stand.
In Port Royal, elderly sisters Nancy and Betty White Brown shelter their niece Virginia Lovelace though poverty tests them. A loyal neighbor Harmony helps, a romance with Dixey Page develops, and Lt. Roger Carlyle courts Virginia. Virginia marries and leaves with a government bond bequeathed to the aunts, who remain financially strapped yet supported by Fort Royal’s society.
A humorous aside notes a poor widow unable to raise sixty cents to buy a bonnet while savings are seen as bank stock. Amid charity jokes, a 5000-dollar bond stands as a secure return as Dixey Page marries and Virginia avoids contributing to his household.
An Arkansas speaker claims his war record is part of state history and that he carried the last Confederate flag through the town. A bystander confirms the anecdote, praising the witness for recounting courage and memory.
The Lay torpedo discharged in the Bosphorus covered a mile long course at a sixty foot target. It endured three currents and a rough sea, and the trial proved the invention highly useful.
Valparaiso item notes Senor Ricardo Staven, a leading commission merchant, declares he has been cured of rheumatism by St Jacob's Oil and urges public benefit from wealth and good deeds. Also includes literary quotes and a brief update on Malay tin production and peanut business.
A fragmented advertising filled page mentions Perry Davis's Pain Killer, Allen's Brain Food, Brown's Iron Bitters, Carboline hair restorer, Thomas' Eclectic Oil, and Burdock Bitters. It references cures and health claims for nervousness, debility, and Generative organs issues, with testimonial style notes and several product names.
Advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a cure for many dangers from opium shops to gambling dens and liver kidney illness. It cites Frankville Canada resident W. A. Badgers who recovered after taking one and then three bottles, claiming renewed vitality after years of illness.
A collage of advertisements and notices promotes the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot with 600 rooms and European plan rates, Omaha transit tips, Japanese novelties, pepper season mention, health product pitches, and multiple patent medicine claims in a 19th century newspaper style. The items name hotels, services, products, and promotional lines without cohesive narrative.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan offers 30 day trials of Dr Dye’s celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and electric appliances for nervous debility loss of vitality and similar troubles with a guarantee of restoration of heart and vigor. No risk due to a 30 day trial. Stop at the Metropolitan Hotel in Omaha for lodging.
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