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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1904
Page
3
A man named Adam wakes in distress after losing his rib and laments the chance to show off his veriform appendix, viewing the loss as a missed opportunity and grieves over the odd mishap.
A promotional note touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as effective against catarrh and constitutional diseases, offering $100 to prove false claims. It includes testimonials and drugstore availability. The passage shifts to a classroom story about seeds and a boy named Tommy Tucker seeking Miss Adair early in the morning.
In Kishequa Pennsylvania Aug 1 a special report cites Mrs M L Davison of this town praising Dodd's Kidney Pills for thirty years of Rheumatism and a lingering Lame Back noting relief after two boxes. The piece frames growing local belief that Dodd's Kidney cure aids rheumatism with daily reports from residents.
Fragmentary text mentions social critique on fires and safety, then shifts to notes on English influence in Japan with citations from Collier's Weekly and Chicago Journal. A brief advertisement promises a free trial of Dean's Kidney Pills and ends with a quip about seven gowns predicting a weeklong honeymoon.
A Health Culture piece notes metal polishers and stonecutters face early mortality. It cites seven years for polishers, longer for stonecutters, and widespread deaths among trench and sewer workers, caisson and tunnel crews, bridge builders, and railroad laborers, including the North River tunnel and New York Brooklyn bridges, with many injuries and long-term health impacts.
The business men of Argentina Missouri plan a full day for road work to repair the road to Kansas City. Stores banks hotels and offices will close so every resident can work with pick or shovel. They believe this effort will deter unscrupulous contractors and officials and boost highway mileage.
President Charles W. Eliot argues in the July World's Work that satisfaction at work stems from active use of powers and cooperative effort, while overwork and excessive hours destroy this content. He notes modern urban life accelerates haste in both work and leisure, especially among higher employments.
A New York Journal of Commerce voice urges stricter safety standards across industry. It condemns profit focus over lives and calls for higher responsibility from corporations, capitalists, builders, lawmakers, and officials to cultivate a care for general security.
The London Telegraph notes Japanese soldiers and doctors treat Russian wounded with commendable humanity, despite the brutal tools of war created by modern civilization. The piece contrasts civilized ideals with the paradox of war’s deadly instruments and humanity’s high achievements.
The London Chronicle notes Pope Pius X uses a Sixtus V precedent about a sister dressed as a washwoman to illustrate attitudes toward dress. The anecdote shows a formal ritual of rebukes and embraces within the papal court and reflects on how tradition shapes perceptions of modesty and hierarchy.
A Richmond Virginia Times Dispatch editorial argues it is folly for the wealthy to shirk civic duties. It states law upholds property value and law and order benefit rich interests, urging faithful, cheerful compliance with state demands.
An ad pitches a Keenix Walking Chair claiming it prevents baby bumps and bruises and teaches walking. It emphasizes beauty, low cost, and compares favorably to other chairs and starch brands, urging mothers to buy for ease and safety.
A lowland school teacher tests mental arithmetic as a boy answers about four pounds of tea at one and six a pound. The lad says he cannot afford the one and six and jokes his mother would tell him to ask the man to put it down. Dorothy worries over her baby brother's teething as she ponders hair cutting.
A Kansan describes years of headaches rheumatism heart trouble and nervousness tied to heavy coffee use. After switching to Postum the sufferer reports improved health no headaches and steadier nerves for two years. The testimonial praises Postum from the Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan and promotes a health book in each package.
A business man replies that adjournment leaves him feeling lonesome but not greatly so, likening it to a man who loses a pet lion and feels some loneliness yet remains unburdened. The dialogue conveys a light humorous mood about political recess and personal sentiment.
Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORTA eight nafe and cure remedy for infants and children and see that it ae.
A fragmented 1900s advertisement spread touts products and cures. Claims include cold water starch, ulcer treatment promises, teething soothing syrup for children, and Piso’s Cure for consumption praised by a doctor-like testimonial. The text mixes varied remedies and dubious health claims.
Defiance Starch Co offers twenty five travel prizes to St. Louis for the five top collectors from Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri. Mail ten cent trade marks from Defiance cold water starch 16 ounce packages to Omaha Nebraska by September 1 1904. October and November are best for visiting the Exposition. Defiance markets advertise a 16 ounce package with extra starch and non sticking on iron.
Grocers avoid Defiance Starch 16 oz sales by stocking 12 oz brands. They know customers who bought the 16 oz package for the same price will not buy the smaller size.
In a bold claim the Defiance Starck brand asserts it surpasses rivals in both quality and volume. The statement suggests whiskey standards are only as strong as the spirit itself, urging superior production as the path to dominance.
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