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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
6
A moral meditation on dating rituals and aims of young men and women, contrasting independence with devotion. It cautions against flirtation and fickle suitors, urging honesty, steady pursuit, and commitment to avoid heartbreak and jilting. It emphasizes female agency balanced with prudent choices in marriage prospects.
An early article notes how clever young women shower suitors with social attention while men grow weary of frequent visits. It describes how suitors drift from one acquaintance to another seeking marriage, tiring of constant courting and party plans.
A advice piece urges young women to avoid capricious lovers and pouting in parlor delays. It argues faithful partners endure tests, praise true affection, and suggests future happiness comes from steadfast, congenial bonds rather than dramatic romps. It ends by declaring pouting sweethearts are of the past.
John M. Browning of Ogden Utah, a famed gun inventor and Mormon, is celebrated for his Colt machine gun and automatic pistol patents. King Albert of Belgium awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold after a Liege banquet, with a gold replica pistol presented to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Browning, a quiet Banjo player and fishing enthusiast, rose from a local Ogden shop to world impact.
Enid Oklahoma reported Merle Rea aged thirteen once called the ossified boy due to a skin and muscle hardening that paralyzed him. After a fall and spinal treatment the child shows remarkable improvement and nears normal health.
Mrs. A F E Evans of Kansas City traced her son Harry Gordon after fifteen years. A 1906 hospital separation followed by ads about a mythical estate led to a lead from an orphanage attendant. Cain, a Jacksonville farmer, reported Harry believed his mother dead. Evans now seeks reunion.
A large consignment sent to Armour & Morris in Christiania remains unclaimed. It included 1,000 boxes of pork 3,000 barrels of lard and 300 barrels of oil. Provisions were likely sent to Germany via German agents but Norwegian authorities retained storage funds.
The text notes debates on women’s rights and a new constitution, mentions influential figures like Sveinsdottir, and reports on a drastic April midwife regulation affecting qualifications, plus scattered local incidents including a brick kiln and political party activity in Denmark.
Sweden faces a tense political split over whether to join the war effort with Germany or remain neutral. Pro Germany faction gains, public debt, Nobel prizes, and war economics dominate discourse as Sweden’s democracy tests its stance.
Fragmentary text mentions attendance and a person named Diorean at a meeting or event. Details are unreadable, but indicates a scheduled gathering with attendees.
Recent tests show a watch that normally shifts a second a day may gain or lose a quarter of a minute in 24 hours if hung on a stand or bedpost. The hanging angle affects accuracy. It also suggests that a watch runs poorly when worn by someone else due to different motion rhythm, not temperature or magnetism.
Farmer Countessel muses about entering politics and becoming an officer of the law. He reveals no political ambitions but plots to buy a car and be the person blamed if fast driving leads to arrests.
The Miss Liberty statue stands 110 feet to the head and 152 feet to the torch from base. Copper sheets are about one tenth of an inch thick, with total weight 440000 pounds and cost one million francs or two hundred thousand dollars.
Incomplete dialogue shows Parker laughing at a prank while discussing a practical joke. The fragment hints at a humorous exchange but lacks full context or clear facts.
Alaska fishermen Thomas R. Thompson and John Abrams sailed a sixteen foot dory from Unga to San Francisco in forty five days, crossing the Pacific via the Golden Gate after a voyage of 1800 miles.
Victor Dessart of Menominee County prepares for the future by building his own coffin. He, a Belgian immigrant who settled near Nadeau thirty years ago, lives a frugal life with twelve children and notes the lumber for the coffin has aged twenty years.
William Berns of Hammonton known as the grand old man attributes his health to walking and abstinence from liquor. In his eighty second year he averages fifty to sixty miles weekly. He settled in the forties when Hammonton had under a dozen houses. He recently helped survey a timber tract where over 4,000 acres burned in a fire blamed on locomotive sparks.
Four Wenatchee girls who departed for a hunting and camping trip on Lake Chelan two weeks ago returned safely. They slept outdoors in a self made pine bough shelter and reported catching several fish and encountering wildlife including rattlesnakes and a lynx during their excursion.
The Pettibone will directs 25000 to La Crosse institutions. La Crosse Hospital receives 10000, Hub Library 10000, and the Women’s and Children’s Home 5000. Joseph Zenker, a coachman, gets a house and lot valued at 5000 and other servants receive portions.
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