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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
8
Polk residents attend dances in Central City and Osceola. births, weddings and mov es announced. Sheriff warnings and minor legal actions loom as doctors, teachers, and merchants move, marry, or visit nearby towns. Funeral details and army discharge noted amid community updates.
Mrs. Wilcox aged 60 years 2 months 11 days died quietly after an operation in Omaha last Friday following a period of illness. She came to Nebraska in 1872 and married A. B. Wilcox in 1878, leaving ten children six boys and four girls. One daughter died in infancy and son Lemuel gave his life in France. She was the daughter wife, and mother of soldiers with five sons in the recent war.
A worried man at a club complains his flat life is disrupted by noisy children next door. He says the piano playing keeps the dog barking and prevents sleep for both households, leaving the kids unable to sleep.
A terse note reflects widespread drought causing frustration over scarce water and a warning about poisonous snakes in the region. The speaker laments the futility of irrigation efforts as shortages intensify across the area.
Special purchase from ten months ago lets us offer gray 74 by 80 inch blankets at 3.45 per pair. They are long fibre cotton with soft fleecy finish and shell stitched ends with blue and pink borders.
Classified listing notes thin blankets suitable for chilly nights. D0 by 72 measures weigh about 2 lbs, gray, pairs priced at $2.18. 64 by 76 weighs about 2 lbs 9 oz in gray or tan, pair price $2.95. 70 by 84 weighs about 3 lbs 6 oz, gray or tan, per pair $3.95.
The London Chronicle recounts marvels of recall by Timmins the Shakespearean scholar who at twenty one purportedly recited Hamlet from memory. It contrasts with Samuel Brandram who could recall vast Shakespeare and many favorites, claiming he read nothing and never forgot a line in his Nights With the Poets and Humorists.
A blue-eyed baby boy born mid Atlantic aboard an old Norwegian whaler becomes the center of a family tale. With no doctor aboard and Mrs Creece as the sole woman, Captain Johannsen cared for the infant while the father travels to London to determine the child’s nationality hoping for British status to match the family.
A study compiled by the Bureau of Education and the Children’s Bureau shows that at age twenty five a student who stays in school until eighteen earns about $2,000 more over a lifetime than one who leaves at fourteen. Better education yields over $200 more annually, equating to an $18,000 at 5 percent investment, with earnings rising faster for the educated.
President Hough of Northwestern University told a Mansion House audience that the world has become a union of mutinous nerves since the armistice. He urged maintaining humor as a Christian asset, saying even God laughs and we should not take our nerves too seriously.
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