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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1905
Page
6
A defense of Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a non alcoholic family remedy for women. The speaker rebukes critics who call it a patent medicine and asserts the cures are based on honesty, public approval and thousands of testimonials.
To the housewife resistant to new market items we suggest Defiance Cold Water Starch. It promises superiority and comes in 16 oz per packet, larger than competing 12 oz. brands. The message asserts switching to Defiance yields ongoing use. Also included are unrelated classified snippets about ranches for sale in Custer county and investment offers.
A discussion debunks myths about fruit as harmful for digestion and bowel disorders. It advocates fruit as a remedy for chronic dysentery, highlights suitable juice preparations, cautions on sugar content, and notes that fruit eaten alone at the last meal causes minimal issues while excesses and certain acids affect some individuals.
In Boston tales, several high ranking Japanese students dine weekly at a prominent home. When one is absent, a guest proclaims he is very dissipated. The host asks privately, and the guest confirms the man is not well, not drunk or gambling, but “very dissipated” for eating sponge cake all the time.
Frances Willard in a late address warns that without physical empowerment women cannot reach full status. She condemns fashion’s constraints and the loss of constitution, describing women as an hourglass of rapid life and a mere lay figure for adornment.
An English inventor introduces wolff tissue as a leather substitute for boots and shoes. The London Shoe Company uses it for walking shoes citing coolness lightness and durability. It is more waterproof and porous than leather reducing the need for rubber boots in deep slush and mud.
The article states eggs are highly nourishing, supplying fats and proteins in an easily absorbed form. A single egg weighs about 1.5 ounces with 1 ounce white and 0.5 ounce yolk. yolk nutrients are richer per weight. Fresh eggs digest well. best preparations include raw whipped or cooked 20–30 minutes at about 160 degrees. Boiled yolk digests easier. hard boiled whites should be finely coagulated for gastric digestion. One egg equals the value of a dozen oysters.
Recipes describe Mashed Peas With Nuts, Graham Gems, Irish Corn Soup, Split Pea Soup, and Baked Parsnips with step by step methods. Instructions cover soaking peas, grinding peanuts, adding flours, timing for baking and serving hot.
The piece notes massive Canadian land settlement interest from the United States in 1904 and 1905 with thousands heading to Western Canada. It highlights new railroad opened territory and acre prices from seven to ten dollars producing substantial yields, urging settlers to pursue wheat and grazing lands while warning against schemes.
A reader from Akrog Ohio reports a daughter's severe skin sores healed after using Cuticura. The note praises the product, claiming faster relief and a clear result versus the small price, and includes a testimonial signature.
The Elkins act imposes a fine from 1000 to 20000 dollars on railroads that pay rebates or on shippers who accept them and bars freight under tariffs. The Interstate Commerce Commission can detect and prosecute violators, and President Knapp says rebate payments have become rare since the law passed. The cynical remark notes that the best husbands are those who escape scrutiny.
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