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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1916
Page
3
A short health ad promotes drinking four glasses of very hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate before breakfast. It claims to flush stomach, liver, kidneys, and bowels, remove toxins, improve appetite, and brighten complexion, costing little to buy.
The New York Sun reports that marriages between women of enemy nationality and Frenchmen have surged since the war. Paris government plans a bill to strip such foreign brides of French marriage law privileges, denying citizenship benefits and protections. One German heiress reportedly wed a Porte-Maillot bootblack last August, paying him to take his name and immunity, though they never lived together.
In a conversation about Chugeon, one notes his hopeful disposition. The other asks why, pointing to his touring car and his engagements to meet people upon return, as if a future return were guaranteed.
Jack asks how Marie became interested in the book she is reading. Marie replies she liked the way it ended.
A cryptic aphorism asserts that laziness leads to an unburied death, implying unfinished business or neglect. The line presents a stark caution about idleness and its consequences.
A narration of a husband impressing breakfast with Grape Nuts and Postum. After a five year hot country stay, health improved for both spouses who preferred Grape Nuts and Postum. A friend with indigestion found a small dish of Grape Nuts with cream helped with night discomfort and weight gain followed. The ad is signed Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan.
Authorities outline plans to address flooding and ice gorge hazards along the Douglas-Dodge County boundary. Crews will remove debris widen channels and improve drainage to reduce overflow risk for nearby settlements and farmland.
A listing of forthcoming statewide gatherings across Nebraska including the State T P A Convention in Alliance April 28 29 the Savannah to Seattle Highway Convention in Omaha April 24 25 and numerous other events such as the Great Western Handicap in Omaha June 13 14 15 the Spanish War Veterans in North Platte June 5 6 the Mothers Day observance May 14 and the Trans Misssissippi Bakers association in Omaha June 12 15 among others with dates and locations.
A proposed twenty mile long dike along the east bank of the Platte in Douglas county costs about 50000. It would crest ten feet above low water and sit 800 to 500 feet back from the river to resist wash. Floods in 1912 damaged Douglas county roads and Waterloo stocks, threatening Union Pacific and Burlington lines. The land behind the dike would be used for pasturage.
Bridgeport Catholics have bought land for a new church and will start construction promptly. The town has held services since its founding, but this marks the first church building project.
The Auburn Hose Company has signed with a major carnival firm to stage a ten day carnival in Auburn during the third week of May bringing rides games and entertainment to residents.
Preparations are underway for the western division convention and musical festival of the American union of Swedish singers to be held in Omaha from June 19 to 22. Reports predict a very large turnout with at least 600 active singers and many passive members, including the Arps chorus of Minneapolis Vera chorus of St Paul and Svithiod chorus of Chicago among those attending. The western division spans the midwest with 35 singing societies from Chicago McHine Rockford Minneapolis St Paul Duluth Des Moines Denver Kansas City and others.
In a letter to the Madison County Farmers Association Arthur G. George the county agricultural agent argues for oat smut treatment. He cites 72 oat fields with an average 5 percent smutted heads and notes a potential five bushels per acre yield loss totaling 103250 dollars if smut were eliminated. Demonstrations on seed treatment will be held on several farms as northern fields show more smut. He urges universal farmer cooperation to control smut on every farm.
In 24 Nebraska municipalities the pool hall banishment vote prevailed in all but six towns. Of 15 towns voting on Sunday baseball ten allowed games for another year. The pool hall for list includes Allen Bassett Broken Bow Burwell Hebron Shelton and the against list includes Callaway Central City Cozad Culbertson Elgin Elmwood Farnam Genoa Gibbon Juniata Lexington Minden Rising City Sargent Scotia Upland Valparaiso Waco. For Sunday baseball the voting towns were Bruning Crawford Daykin Eustis Gibbon Mullien Ord Scotia Silver Creek St Edward with Ashland Bertrand Farnam Oxford Primrose voting against.
A move to establish a major motion picture producing city in Ralston is reportedly led by the Rialto Amusement company. If realized the project would rival Universal City in California, transforming the Nebraska town into a film production hub.
Pender voters approved sewer bonds by a 12 to 17 margin at the recent election. The town remains wet with no opposition to the proposition.
The district contest in Rushville featured reps from Crawford Chadron Valentine and Rushville. Pauline Mack of Chadron won first in oratorical, Mildred Gardner of Chadron won dramatic with The Heart of Old Hickory, and George Costley of Chadron took humorous class honors.
Over 600 farmers attended the union banquet in Fremont celebrating the new cooperative creamery. Milk is set at 6 cents a quart with reduced prices for cream and butter, praised as a model facility.
Howe J R Relf engineer of Falls City completes survey for Ne maha county drainage district No. The new ditch will drain hundreds of acres along the big muddy bottoms and carry seepage and flood waters. It will be eight miles long to the county line with work possible this year.
The article traces Wilhelm Riedemann a Fussian shipowner from early experiments with iron tanks on vessels to store petroleum. He designed the first modern tanker the Glueckauf launched in 1886 in England and delivered to New York, sparking protests from shippers. Now about 400 vessels of the Glueckauf type transport petroleum with 58 more under construction in American yards.
The article notes 26000 California cannery workers are women. It cites Mrs. Winston Churchill as a curtain designer. It mentions French women cleaning streets and doing various jobs, and Miss Margaret Kennedy funding education by crawfishing. It also lists Miss Caroline K Kenworthy licensed to practice law in federal courts and theatergoers in New York preferring gallery seats. It touches on women in armies in Russia Serbia and Austria, Canada’s refusal, and Winnipeg recruiters for stenographers.
A Springfield Republican note contrasts the spelling St Denis with one n and St Dennis with two n s, explaining St Denis is a French saint in Rome’s hagiography while Dennis is an Irish variant. The piece mentions the dancer Saint Dennis as a sensational figure and discusses the names' correctness.
Mrs George Jay Gould, speaking at a New York dinner, defends a rational marriage after the honeymoon. She warned that romantic matches may be fine at first but face practical troubles, quipping that love laughs at locksmiths but the wolf at the door bites later.
British government offers a 3d per gallon rebate on gasoline to doctors for professional use, avoiding heavy costs. The allowance applies to physicians who apply through their local tax collector, easing travel expenses for medical work.
A child asks if they had five cents and gave two how much remained. The brother replies with a math quip about giving to a sister and ending up with more. The sister counters that taking two would leave the brother with more than she would have.
Miss Clarice Morin of Taunton Massachusetts says monthly pains and fatigue kept her from work until a neighbor suggested Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After using the remedy she remained well and encourages other girls to seek help. The ad invites readers to write for confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
Inside information notes the whale in distress after swallowing Jonah. A friendly shark asks the cause while the whale frets about the inner man and searches for indigestion tablets. A physician is quoted on funerals of ex-patients, likened to a tailor bringing work home.
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