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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1904
Page
4
Advertising rates are published on application. Local business ads run until exhausted and charged at 5 cents per line per insertion. The paper is mailed to subscribers until a definite discontinuation order is given and all arrears are paid in full.
A compilation of varied figures and curiosities including a wartime cost estimate of 265 million dollars per year, farm labor metrics, upcoming political conventions, demographics, and advances in transport. Also notes on straw manufacture in Baltimore, horse prices, soldier mortality, a Schenectady locomotive milestone, and Latin etymology of the recipe symbol.
Under the new revenue law the county assessor will soon begin an investigation of records in the county clerk district court and register of deeds offices. He intends to list all unreleased mortgages and judgments held by county residents for taxation.
Senator J Ralph Burton of Kansas was sentenced by Judge Adams in St Louis to six months in the Iron Co jail and a 2500 dollar fine for using his influence with the post office to aid Rialto Grain and Securities Co. Motions for new trial and appeal were overruled. Burton posted a 10000 dollar bond and left the courtroom.
A collage of old notes on seed leaf apples the animal trade values mammals and a mix of quotes about health church ideals and political scandal. It mentions a Oklahoma Indian Territory state idea a Kansas City visit by John Daligren and forecasts on car prices from Edison and Dahlgren with warnings from Senator Burtot and Thomas W. Lawson regarding corruption and swindles.
The largest flying reptile remains, the American pteranodon, were found by Prof. B W Wilson and a University of Chicago party near Smoky Hill river, Nebraska. Wings span ten feet, longest finger bone twenty eight inches, and weight about twenty five pounds. Lived in the cretaceous four to five million years ago. its bones helped form today’s chalk cliffs.
The St Louis exposition opens April 30 and runs seven months to December 1. Grounds extend nine thousand five hundred feet by six thousand feet, about two and three fourths miles around the northern and eastern fronts. Total area is 1240 acres with exhibits valued at fifty million dollars. Machinery Palace alone worth eight million. Compared to Chicago 1893, St Louis uses nearly twice the land and has 50 percent more exhibit space.
A June 27 1890 pension law may grant a service pension to all veterans over 62 with three months service. The Monitor denounces lodge favoritism and grafters while noting the plan could undermine opposition and affect families in death. It cites Mankato Kansas Monitor commentary.
The Lincoln Daily Star offers Nebraska boys a chance to own an open face atom wind stem set American watch. Makers guarantee good time keeping. Many boys have already obtained the watches and praise them. Letters from Fred Robinson Tekamah and A M Linner Holdrege attest to satisfactory timekeeping. Send a postal card or letter to Watch Department Daily Star Lincoln Nebr for details.
The article extols land bargains in irrigated Colorado and nearby Wyoming. It notes cheap water rights and fertile soil along the North Platte Valley and Big Horn Basin as Burlington Route promotes settlement to lock in rising prices. Interested readers are directed to J Francis, General Passenger Agent, Burlington Route, Omaha.
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