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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1912
Page
5
Rail schedule fragment lists trains moving east and west with numbers 14 16 66 13 15 65 daily departure and arrival times shown in a garbled OCR. Includes through passenger and local freight services with times around 4 30 am 12 49 pm and 5 pm.
The account by E. E. Youngs of Berkshire Virginia recounts travel trials and digestive complaints. He praises Dr King’s New Life Pills as an excellent remedy for stomach liver or kidney troubles, sold for 25 cents at Shutt Drug Co.
Joy Reinhart of Washington DC visited friends in the city yesterday and returned to Diller last evening where his parents reside. He graduated from Beat Rice High School in 1909 and is now working for Uncle Sam at Washington.
Former student at St Joseph Veterinary College informs all debtors that accounts are left with Patton Bros garage and livery barn for settlement. Expects to return to Diller next spring to locate Viers.
C W Pugsley warns that cool weather may delay corn and damage seed this fall and urges early seed selection with a seed week planned by Omaha publicity efforts. A barn four miles west of Diller owned by George W Hinkle burned with a span of mules rescued, owner to move to nearby Kesterson farm. losses described as nominal.
Professors Perkins of London and Fernbach of Berlin report lab made rubber equal in every way to tree rubber. Price depends on fusel oil production, currently about 700 dollars a ton. Fernbach’s discovery could drop fusel oil price below 200 a ton and cut synthetic rubber to sixty cents a pound, with further drops possible to twenty cents. Auto tires may become cheaper and overall rubber pod costs fall.
Mr and Mrs Earl Keeler of Beatrice spent several days this week visiting her sister Mrs IT E Grupe.
Agency Kimball's Laundry ladies and gentlemen served, with suits cleaned and pressed. Mrs Myrtie Diller and children visited their Rockford relatives at the Oaks home. Nathan Mudge and wife and Mr and Mrs R Mudge from Beatrice spent the weekend with W E B Mudge and wife in the city.
State Veterinarian Bostrum states that less than 500 dollars will remain from a 25 000 appropriation for reimbursing grandered horses owners. He notes expenditures total 11 703 52 dollars to date.
The speaker urges residents to keep yards clean during heat to prevent flies and disease. Emphasizes that open refuse invites swarms, harming the village’s health. urges collective action for a cleaner, safer environment.
An advertisement claims ill health stems from indigestion and that Chamberlains Tablets strengthen digestion, invigorate the liver, and regulate bowels. It asserts the remedy can end the miserable feeling of faulty digestion and cites many others cured. Available for sale by Shutt Drug Co.
Telegram reports the death of Jennie Leaper born September 1863 in Peoria county Illinois. She married John Leaper in 1882 and lived in McMinnville Oregon. She was raised in the German Lutheran church and later attended M E church services with her husband. Funeral arrangements are not fully readable.
Sept. 9 opening planned with seating and registration for pupils on Sept. 7. Notes improvements at the Diller schoolhouse including new cabinet, desks, shades, and window replacements. Also mentions Dr. E Benjamin Andrews earning a PhD, comments on education, local visits, political bid by H R Hinshaw, farm life anecdotes, a birth, buffalo in Yellowstone, and local hog losses.
A discussion explains the rule of the road for passing and turning. It notes that passing on the right is correct while turning left to yield is dangerous and often causes confusion. Drivers should toot, wait, and observe the lead vehicle before passing.
Alma visitors Mr tand TM and Mrs Henry Disekhog with son Erich travel to near Diller to visit Dick Qommen and Mrs Willems. They discuss plans to attend the State Fair in September featuring $13,000 in races, aeroplane flights, band concerts, vaudeville acts, and the Cheyenne Frontier Days show with Indians, cowgirls, cowboys, and buffaloes. The piece invites readers to seize the life time chance to see such attractions.
A News report lauds Uncle Sam for operating nineteen hotels in Panama supplying meals for nine cents and banquets for thirty cents. Travelers praise the quality and cheapness despite transport and heat, noting the contrast with U.S. hotel service and prices.
The Diller Record reports strong reader interest in a recent article arguing against teaching a ninth grade in rural Nebraska schools. Proponents call for adding two years of practical high school work locally to serve rural students and reduce obligatory tuition burdens.
Miss Elva McCoy who had visited here with her sister Mrs. O B Hill returned yesterday to her Tecumseh home.
Cashier O J Mayborn of the Diller State Bank attended a meeting of the Nebraska Bankers Association in Omaha this week.
Dr and Mrs Diehl and Mr and Mrs Grupe visited last Thursday evening at the home of Rev and Mrs Grupe near Lanham.
The year and a half old daughter of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Logan living northwest of Diller drank a small amount of fly paper water Tuesday and became very ill until a physician from Diller provided prompt treatment.
Everlong battles joy and piles end with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. It soothes itching irritation inflammation and pain from piles and burns, providing comfort and relief. A 25 cent remedy sold at Shute Drug Co.
The pumping engine at the water works building is connected and water is being pumped into tanks for leak testing. The air compressor is not yet installed and service pipes will not be connected until after mains testing. Water from new pipes may taste tar but is not unhealthy. The ditcher will finish in a day or two and all mains lay next week.
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