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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
4
The Diller Record lists editor Frank T. Pearce as publisher and states subscription options in advance for one year or six months. It notes post office entry at Diller Nebraska as second class matter and indicates advertising rates on request. Local business items run until canceled, charged 5 cents per insertion. Friday December 3 1909.
The Fairbury News reports H M Hitch’s 160 foot rock creek well that vents a strong wind and shrieks like a whistle at intervals. It allegedly foresees north wind storms within 48 hours and can expel water when pipes thaw. Nearby wells also exhibit air currents and extreme freezing depths.
Arnold Martin of Pawnee County turned a rough twenty acre field into a thriving, debt free farm. He cultivates every foot with intensified methods and earns about $1,000 to $1,200 annually. A Swiss immigrant, he bought at $12.50 per acre with $100 down, paid off the mortgage, built a neat home and barn, and expanded his operations with trips to Colorado and Switzerland.
A Nebraska farmer named Martin exhibited a corn ear at the Lincoln state fair that grew on a 17 foot stalk, had 24 rows and 1,100 grains. He bought the prize ear for 30 dollars at auction, advocates focused, intensive farming on twenty acres, and builds his own market despite distant town access.
The Bertrand Herald reports a tested cattle remedy by subscriber R S Collister. Give a quart of hot water at once, then salt the animal’s mouth, and repeat in fifteen to twenty minutes if needed. He notes a third dose was never required and endorses trying the method.
The county boards November session divided several precincts to form new road districts. Legislation had reduced districts from about 60 to 16 and left formation to county commissioners on petition, but proceedings show a shift back toward the old method to enlarge districts and compensate overseers.
Pasadena resident C H Thompson writes to the Tribune about a warm hop poultice as a cure for spinal disease, recounting a dying patient who recovered after hops were applied at home. He urges publication of the folk remedy, asserting no drugs are needed and that hops ease pain.
A group of aging printers recounting travels recalls a somber episode in Chicago. A hungry pair, after paying to enter the Columbian Exposition, entertain themselves with a monocle joke until a half dollar slips from a monocled eye and sinks into the Chicago River, leaving them stunned and silent.
A witness in a Bellenden Ker will dispute claimed a brother died 150 years ago. Court admitted documentary proof linking the witness’s father to a son who died in infancy and a second son who lived to age ninety, prompting incredulity.
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