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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
3
A humorous snippet shows Mrs Slopay questioning Mr Slopay about a looming bill. He responds in despair that he has dreamt three nights in a row that he was an elican, reflecting comic misunderstanding and financial worry.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething gums and relief of teething pain, wind colic, coughs, and colds. It promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 50 cents. A widow is mentioned in a stray line about ice.
Some grocers refuse Defiance Starch after already selling 16 cs. packs. They say 12 cs. brands remain unsellable to customers familiar with the 16 cs. package. A true friend privately notes faults and publicly defends you.
Claiming deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian Tube mucosa, the notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills as remedies. It offers $100 for any catarrh deafness cure not solved by the remedy, urging readers to request free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
Advertisements mix product pitches and proverbs with travel news. The Katy rail line shifts train No 3 departure to 12 25 PM from 10 36 AM starting August 2, offering an elegant after dinner option for travelers from the North and West to Kansas City. Other lines push health elixirs and cooking tips in the same page.
Advertisement claims Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal at 16 ounces for 10 cents while rivals offer 12 ounce bottles. It implies smart spending and investment logic in a light sales pitch.
A fragmented text mocks grocery shopping with garbled lines about starch substitutes and vague moral musings. It reads like a garbled ad or note with stray phrases on Defiance Starch and contentment linked to desire.
Advertisement for greatly reduced rail fares on the Wabash Railroad to Indiana Ohio and Kentucky with special half fare to Baltimore and return. Homeseekers excursions to southern and southeastern points with monthly departures. Details at 1601 Farnam Omaha Neb. Also a Red Cross Ball Black ad and a few generic ad quips.
An odd Panama tale details General Vasquez Cobos overthrowing a government after a drink incident. He borders on self‑importance, leads the army, chases the governor, then is arrested and in seclusion. A separate notice from Rich Fountain Missouri highlights clergyman Rev. Joseph Pope and a German farmer George Hoellerer praising Dodd's Kidney Pills for rheumatism relief.
A New England inventor proposes luring male mosquitos to death using a bright light and attracting buzz like the female, promising a humane extermination method. Critics call the scheme morally indefensible, likening it to deceitful decoy practices used in trade and finance.
An advertorial touts Postum as a cure for coffee stained complexions and nervous ailments. A testimonial claims long term coffee use caused yellow skin and headaches, while switching to Postum and Grape-Nuts restored rosy cheeks and health.
A Frankfort dispatch reports Bulgaria may mobilize two reserve divisions in response to tensions with Turkey over Macedonia. Sofia disputes the claim, saying reserves are for training. Dispatches from Uskub TM describe six hundred Bashi Bazouks looting Christian villages under Albanian chiefs, with Turkish authorities accused of arming them.
A cablegram from Minister Beaupre at Bogota dated August 12 reports the Colombian senate has rejected the Panama Canal Treaty. President Roosevelt was advised, and the State Department has limited details. Acting Secretary Adee declined to say the United States’ next move, noting the treaty cannot return to Congress in its current form without another vote.
William Gossett of Falls City Nebraska has patented an anti slide and compound wheel and rail brake. The device uses a wedge like shoe in front of the wheels to stop cars quickly with independent track and wheel brakes for emergency use. An Omaha street railway worker tested it and praised its potential to improve streetcar safety.
Army Captain Clarence Sharon of Topeka Kansas was arrested in San Francisco on embezzlement charges against Kansas national guard funds. He claims a small deficit of about 200 dollars while police allege a defalcation running into the thousands. he served with the Twentieth Kansas in Manila.
Official counts show 10 669 viewers for the Corbett versus Jeffries bout in San Francisco. Gross receipts reached 62340 with fighters receiving 70 percent. Jeffries earned 32728 and Corbett 10910 as his share of the purse.
A stonecutters strike in Allegheny County Pennsylvania begins for a wage rise from 50 to 60 cents per hour. Over five hundred men are idle and much work is tied up, with about fifteen thousand members of connected organizations affected.
Hired man near Plattsmouth Nebraska, Fred Schroeder, trusted a stranger and sent a load of corn to town. After cashing a check and not selling the team, he left by train and is now numbered among the missing, losing the corn price.
Plaintiffs in error McMahon Harvey and McKillip contest the states game and fish act as unconstitutional divine usurping executive duties. They argue the governor cannot appoint officers to run the department and that the law’s penalties for out of season prairie chickens are excessive and unjust. The case arose after convictions for shooting prairie chickens out of season with fines of $25 each.
U S District Attorney Summers informs Interior Secretary of a complaint against Nebraska cattlemen for fencing public domain. Removal of fences by Richards and Comstock on their ranches nears completion. Standard Cattle Company actively removes allegedly illegal fences on their ranges. Positive reports of fence removals reach the department.
Joseph Pulitzer endows Columbia University with two million dollars to establish a journalism school. A new building on Morning Side Heights will cost about $500000 and will place the school among the university’s major professional faculties with national scope.
The public comfort building at the Nebraska state fair grounds is nearly finished with the roof in place. The sheep barn is complete and workmen rush the remaining barns. Officials believe all planned work will be done in time for the fair opening, and a telephone line has been installed on site to speed progress.
Harry Grabill of Plattsmouth Nebraska accused of grand larceny for stealing turkeys from a Weeping Water resident. Released on bond with security to appear at the next district court term.
The seventeenth annual convention of the national harness manufacturers and dealers protective associations began in Detroit on Monday, drawing members to discuss trade matters, standards, and upcoming industry events.
The report states a passenger train derailed between Rothenkirchen and Ober Krinitz in Zwickau, Saxony, causing three deaths and forty injuries. Other items note czar and czarina leaving St. Petersburg, jockey Lucien Lyne winning four at Wolverhampton, and regional disturbances in Hong Kong and Venezuela.
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