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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
4
A December 9 1904 Diller Record item condemns cigarette smoking and links it to social decline. It offers satirical vignettes about forgetful husbands and a romantic carriage scene where a couple nearly kiss before the moment ends with a kiss.
A Missouri campaign filing lists the exhaustive expense ledger kept by a candidate, noting canvassing hours, tobacco given away, drinks served, and various personal items. The document includes odd entries such as crops, livestock, and counts of social acts alongside routine political expenditures.
A. 0. Burket near Lanham receives a Haddoff piano from G. A. Kite Piano Co of Fairbury as a Christmas present. The note adds future sun and moon eclipses for 1905 with dates March 5 and August 8 for the sun and February 10 and August 15 for the moon, the August sun not visible locally and the second moon eclipse visible in America.
An odd health notice discusses longevity for men past middle age. It notes elderly men are often thin and frugal in diet and may need Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to aid digestion and liver function. Spear Drug Co. offers the product.
School opened with good attendance after vacation. Gertrude Kennedy reentered in sixth grade. First quarterly exams underway this week. Earl Pearce absent. Sylvia Miller absent from intermediate room. Mr Knauer photographed the school and primary room. Max Bell Marie Mills Hallie Knauer Hope Knauer visited the primary room. High School division to give a rhetoric talk Friday afternoon. Riley Place new in the Intermediate room. Third grade filling out a weather chart.
The advertisement touts Cole’s Hot Blast as holding a fire for 36 hours with soft or hard coal without attention. It claims two hours of morning room heating with last night’s coal, easy open draft, airtight smokeless feed door, dustless ash remover, and one third fuel efficiency over lower draft stoves of the same size.
Hogs are sought at Diller by Wents Hiatt & Co. Rural ads advertise fattening feed Columbia-Stock Powder sold by John Bakewell as agent near Endicott. A barn fire destroyed four horses hay and corn, suspected to be started by a passing train. Also notes on Cascarets as a laxative and Burlington winter timetable with train arrivals at the station.
Mr J S Egleston of Maple Landing Iowa reports severe winter colds turned to la grippe with aching knees and head congestion. Using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets he recovered, noting the tablets support bowels liver and kidneys during a cold or grip attack. Sold by Spear Drug Co.
A newspaper notice touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a quick remedy for burns cuts sores eczema and piles with claims of rapid relief. It references a street accident scenario and urges readers to keep salve handy, noting Spear Drug Company as the retailer.
On January 2 1905 at 1 0 lock P M at the courthouse Beatrice Nebraska the farm known as Grandma Leapers place half mile north and two and one half miles east of Diller 160 acres well improved land good bearing orchard with house barn pasture etc will be sold to highest bidder to settle up estate possession given March 1 1905 title good.
A vintage advertisement extols Boschee’s German Syrup for colds and flu like la grippe. It claims quick cures for children and adults, notes home treatment, and pitches trial and regular bottles for sale at Neely's.
Resolutions of respect adopted by Naomi Chapter No 44 Order of the Eastern Star on December 6 1904 mourn the death of Myrtle Neely. They praise her life work and urge continued charity, noting death's certainty and life’s fragility.
Notice to hunters prohibiting hunting on the premises described as the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 25, township 1, range 4 east, in Jefferson county. Penalty for trespassing specified. 40 GEO, FISHER.
Notice prohibits hunting on the south 32 40 acres of the southeast quarter of section 24 town 1 range 4 east in Jefferson county Nebraska under penalty of law for Elizabeth and GREIDER.
Probate record from Kiskalt estate naming the county judge C. C. Boyle. Notice dated June 10, 1905, requests presentation of claims for four weeks prior to June 6, 1905. County judge presiding.
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