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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1883
Page
4
The speaker recalls a brown faced country boy amid a pastoral farm setting with lilacs, locust trees, humming bees, and a tranquil valley. The voice laments lost common joys and the distance between past and present, inviting reflection on identity and place.
Ralph Warden uncovers love’s entanglements between Alice Arnden and George Fenby in Marsham. A dismissed engagement and a land deed trigger a drive to expose truth, leading to a final reconciliation as Ralph returns lovers’ futures to them and offers a blessing.
Harper’s describes a failed British plan to seize General Washington during the war. Ettrick, a suspected loyalist, invited Washington to dine and a life guard was dispatched in English uniform to seize him. Washington arrested Ettrick instead, the daughter mourned, and Washington spared her father by releasing him to leave the country. He later fled to Nova Scotia.
Counselor Farley recounts racing from Philadelphia to Atlantic City by train to reach his dying child. He describes seasick like motion on the locomotive, dust clouds, and a whistling engine as the train sped from Camden toward the sea.
Major B S White of Baltimore recounts a ten year illness blamed on gland enlargement. He says after using St Jacobs Oil and thorough spinal rubbing the knots and stiffness vanished and he regained his health.
A Denver writer recalls a train ride with a woman traveling with three children to attend a Nebraska circus eighty miles away. He narrates his initial judgment of her as a potential widow and later reveals she is pursuing a holiday funded by past ranch earnings. He notes Nebraska women’ s nerve and ends with reflections on sympathy and travel monotony.
Market notes from Omaha Chicago and St Louis list barley rye corn oats flour and butter prices along with hogs cattle and sheep values. Prices show regional variations with barley at 47c and 42c for different grades while pork and lard futures are noted. Futures for cattle hogs and sheep appear steady with regional ranges and box prices for fruit and butter.
A waterproof paint for stone is prepared by fusing equal parts of aluminum palmitate and colophony or mixing aluminum palmitate with wax and dissolving in caustic soda and water. The resulting solution resembling soap can be used for wall painting. After drying the paint is washed with a weak aluminum sulphate solution to render it insoluble.
The note warns that ripe fruit in summer can bring sickness such as colic cramps and summer complaint from spoiled fruit. It cites Perry Davis Pain Killer as a poversian remedy for these ailments and other evils. It also mentions Mrs Langtry holding $81,000 in real estate mortgages in New York and ends with a harsh critique of undesired people.
The article notes people move west or south seeking a better state of health and happiness. It touts Kidney-Wort as a simple remedy for sickness and urges contentment, alongside references to Francis Murphy’s return from Europe and various patent medicines and tonics. It mentions Carbolide hair renewer and a prize fight canceled, with promotional quips about tonics and cures.
An advertisement from Voltaic Belt Co Marshall Michigan promotes Dr Dye's Electro Voltaic Belt and related appliances offered to men at a thirty day trial with no risk. It claims restoration of heat and vigor and notes travel directions to Omaha and hotel rates. Also mentions Allen's Iron Tonic Bitters and other items with brief health claims and a note on the Count de Chambord paying the pope a sum of 90000.
J C Gray of Dadev ille Ala reports using Dr William Hall s Balsam for the Lungs and finds it vastly superior to other lung remedies A bedridden mother improved after one bottle and was said to be saved by the medicine Gray notes five cures and lasting improvement over twenty years
A collage of patent medicine claims and ads for salves and balms, teething syrups, worm cures, and nerve liniments. Includes testimonials for Sly’s Cream Balm, Ely’s Cream Balm, Uncle Sam's products, and Meromod and Jaccard jewelry catalogs with pricing notes and promotional lines.
A garish 19th century advertisement touts the Grand Union Hotel in New York City with 600 elegant rooms costing one dollar per day under European plan. It promises top service, rail connections, and lower living costs than other first class hotels, while also promoting other products and quips of the era.
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