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Newspaper

Osceola Record

Location

Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1925

Page

3

Word Puzzle From 1925 Newspaper Page

A fragmented list of crossword style clues and partial answers constitutes a word puzzle section. The reader sees numbered hints for various definitions including objects, actions, and parts of speech with many items incomplete or garbled. The note promises the solution in the next issue.

Berlin passport mix up lands Englishman in police custody

Reverend Thomas A Norreys travels in Berlin under foreign documents but misreads German officials. Janet Church warns him the police will scrutinize his papers. After a tense interrogation, he is arrested and taken to officials including Prince von Steinveldt to determine his true identity and purpose in the city.

Janet Church Janet Tommy Berlin Foreign Office T. A. Norreys Casimir Mascotte Nein Ing Prince von Steinveldt von Steinveldt Tom Norreys Thomas A. Norreys Marquis Lystria Balkan Germany Strasburg Alsace Lorraine

How to Solve a Crossword Puzzle

Instructions explain placing letters in white spaces to form words across and down. Numbers mark initial letters, horizontal clues define a run until a black square, vertical clues define a run down to the next black square. All answers are valid dictionary words except proper names.

Wise Course of Study Through Plutarch’s Example

A reflective passage on self discipline in study and writing. It cites Plutarch as a model to counter daily ignoble feelings by contemplating the brightest examples. The author urges dispas sionate memory of renowned men to guide conduct.

Plutarch

Card Parties Anger Local Minister and Pastor

A Bridge and Hot Springs woman faced sharp censure from her minister for hosting frequent card gatherings. She told the minister that entertaining stupid people is best done by allowing card games, a claim her friends would dislike if they knew.

Hot Springs Arkansag Thomas Cat

Made Lonely Journey by Ida Francis Heroic Desert Trek

Ida Francis, a South African woman farmer, drove her cattle 400 miles across a desert to safety after a cyclone and floods devastated her farm. She faced dried water holes and lion attacks, yet she saved nearly all her animals unaided, proving British women settlers' endurance.

South Africa Ida Francis Kalabari

Proverb Trick Sparks School Challenge on Platform

A kindly squire hosts a village school puzzle after tea. He acts out actions representing Union is strength and a child answers with Let sleeping dog lie. The scene unfolds on the platform to award a shilling.

Pearson’s Weekly

Not a Bad Ambition Quote by Arnold Bennett

The speaker cites a personal ambition to spend a day without an unkind thought about anyone. This reflective line frames a humane goal attributed to Arnold Bennett.

Arnold Bennett

Gicicticn FaCABINET beod i 1948 Harvest and Birds

The text notes orchard and vineyard with rich fruit age crowned and a golden sheen on the sheaves, signaling fulfillment in every thing. Edith Bradt is cited with a fragmentary Victorian tone referencing the 1948 Western Newspaper Union publication.

Edith Bradt

Leek Symbol in Welsh National Identity

The Welsh retain the leek as a national emblem reflecting Celtic fondness for the vegetable. The Anglo Saxons called their gardens leac gardens indicating a similar leek association in early language.

Omelet Story Guards Week of Rebranding at Local Eatery

A Toledo Blade columnist notes a restaurant serves an omelet named differently each day yet tasting the same, calling it a showcase of salesmanship and marketing ploy.

Toledo Blade

Pound Warns on Bogus Stocks at Boston Dinner

Harvard Law School head Roscoe Pound spoke in Boston about the millions the public loses yearly to bogus stocks. He urged learning by experience and challenged why learning cannot come from being done.

Roscoe Pound Harvard Law School Boston Mr. Pound

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