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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
4
This Friday issue from Diller Nebraska notes mail delivery, subscription terms, and advertising rates. It discusses a 20 million dollar antitrust matter involving Standard Oil, presidential law enforcement history, and a Missouri editor’s million-dollar mile joke. A New York girl faces jail after a suicide attempt amid a string of misfortune and trials.
A new paper trust is formed and predicts prices rising to 84.00 per hundred pounds by January 1. The current price is 8.50. From 1.400 previously to the present price is a large jump. The outlook for printers is cautious with slow demand ahead.
A recalled fact centers on Ben and the irony of fate within the United States. The fragment hints at deliberate suppression or punishment affecting Ben, framed by a broader chance encounter with destiny.
A debate on railroad regulation contrasts federal supremacy with state rights. Governor Folk notes federal injunctions curb state laws, while KNAPF argues for national oversight to harmonize laws and restrain state legislative action, urging workable federal control over interstate commerce.
Julia Marlowe on vacation in Italy. Eugene Cowles re-engaged for Marie Cahill’s company. Eugene Moulan, Frank Moulan’s brother, in Knight of a Day company. T P O’Connor’s wife staged a historical drama in San Francisco. Franz Lehar’s Ball at The Merry Widow set sales records at Daly’s London production. Paris reports 196000 francs with a deficit of 6000 francs due to expenses.
Clippings present fragmented editorials with cryptic lines about glaciers, a hotel bill, a bathing court, and a quip on a Japanese belief. The text mixes misread spellings and partial quotes from The New York Herald and Philadelphia Inquirer, offering a glimpse of era jokes and foreign perception.
France trends show schoolchildren shaving heads as fashion. Old debts under two years old can be collected by doctors and druggists. Two 5500 ton ships are built to open service between Dunkerque and New York. Wine consumption remains high though beer grows in popularity. Montrouge near Paris hosts a mummy factory sending mummies to Egypt and back via Marseilles for museums.
A fragment asks what happened to the old fashioned man who wore leather suspenders and to old fashioned men who ate at store counters, then trails into a garbled line about chromed legs and missing text.
The judge overhears his daughter recount a case in which an adverse ruling was appealed a rehearing petition granted for oral argument. The daughter notes the petitioner sought another hearing due to a novel point about briefs. The judge concludes the court favors the plaintiff.
The item notes early use of punctuation by 1490 and cites quirky tales from various towns. New York thieves flee a cafe after finding only 25 cents, Milwaukee bans saloon licenses for married women with unsupported husbands, Lewiston Journal reports old vest bathing by men in Aroostook Maine, Belleville Kansas claims long‑paid advance subs, Troy Chief quips about debt, and American Machinist observes rope use on Gloucester codfishing schooners for rigging over fifteen years.
Practical advice from an old pool of tips covering stain removal with kerosene for petroleum marks. It also suggests repurposing a marble table top as a pie board in a pantry, making a tender skin powder from cornstarch and alcohol, washing windows with dissolved lamp starch, and adding a small glass pane to swinging pantry doors to prevent collisions.
A fragment notes a claim that the Old Curiosity Shop story dog Dick dates back to the era of James I, but the claim has never been established and remains unproven.
In a dialogue quoted from the Washington Star the Comrox family jokes about needing social activity to gain complimentary notices in society pages to counteract the roastings billionaires face in the news column.
A Philadelphia Press quote depicts a divorce inquiry where a wife cites non support and cruelty. She laments her husband failing to provide a diamond necklace as the alleged cruelty driving the split, voiced to her newly retained lawyer.
Farmer Corntessel replies that counting mosquitoes is impractical as they are so big and spry that it is hard to tell if there is a large or small number. The remark appears in the Washington Star quip.
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