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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
3
Community weather wind damage sales and notices from Fairbury Neb include cane seed for sale at two dollars per bushel eye doctor ads and harness oiling services. Events include village trustees election posters, an Inter Church World Movement county convention and American Legion carnival April 5 through 10 with invites to residents.
An advertisement touts Cham berlain tablets as prompt and effective for constipation and indigestion. Mr and Mrs G M Myers and son visited Beat rice hospital and returned with Grace Myers and her friend Lucy Henneman who is from Spring View Neb for Easter vacation.
The notice highlights a weekly East Omaha burlesque and vaudeville attraction at Centre venue with women starring in matinee and evening performances. It mentions a touring choir or acts and a festive city entertainment scene with weekday matinees.
An ad copy discusses acute catarrh and repeated head colds, urging internal relief and prevention. Mentions J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio offering CATA as a remedy and touts effectiveness against chronic conditions.
The piece explains how a woman can maintain beauty with baths diet and exercise and proper liver and bowel function. It notes color and eye changes signal digestive issues and promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a corrective measure. It also reports 1919 seed corn shortages due to wet weather labor scarcity and poor germination rates, with many ears unharvested past January 1.
Snowy conditions delay street lighting issues in Diller as the Record went to press. Mrs. M Mitchell traveled Burling ton to Onaha Tuesday. Peter Remley visited his son-in-law and daughter in University Place Wednesday. Local residents attended Ex President Taft’s League of Nations talk in Fairbury Wednesday night. EFairbank traveled Burlington to Kansas City for treatment. Diller Farmers' Grain received a stock permit worth 3687.50. Don Gridley’s wind-damaged barn frame lay flat after Sunday storm. Diller students from the state university—Ethel Woods, Eva and Harrison Line, Carroll Diller, Cecil Ellis, Harold Hutchinson, Isabel Fouts—are home for Easter. Mrs. RR Green returned Saturday after visiting Vitets and Mrs Sarah Witty. Fred Witty accompanied her home.
The note from Mrs. Benjamin F. Blankeney of Decatur IL lauds Chamberlain Cough Remedy as the best cold and cough medicine their family has used. The text also references a violent wind storm that swept Nebraska to Georgia, causing extensive damage and deaths, with mentions of inter-church meetings in Diller and attendees from Diller at Fairbury.
A stale warning notes that a common cold may make a child vulnerable to diphtheria and urges keeping a sick child home. It claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy quickly cures the cold and reduces the danger of diphtheria or other diseases.
Katherine Elizabeth Sisk daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Sisk was born November 21, 1918. She fell ill February 28 and after tender care she passed away March 25, 1920 at age 1 year 4 months 4 days. She leaves a younger brother Harold and her parents grandparents and many relatives. The poem describes angels bearing a pearl of beauty to heaven.
A tornado struck Omaha on Easter Sunday March 23 1913 killing 139 people and injuring 322. It damaged property valued at 5 million dollars, widening from southwest to northeast through wealthy and poor districts. Federal troops and militia maintained order and aided in rescue as fires ignited overnight.
The scene features a high earning film star bragging about diamonds, while another character scoffs that no jewelry can rival the lighting from the electric front-house display. The exchange highlights vanity and spectacle in cinema culture.
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