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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
3
A collage of witty exchanges and mockery from 20th century papers. It contrasts remarks about manners, piano listening, heavenly promises, and public behavior with jokes about romance, travel, and technology. The tone mirrors a Nixon-era or earlier period's humor and editorial voice.
A Nebraskan column compiles varied items from nutrition claims to local news. Reports include indigestive woes and Grape Nuts claims, church fundraising, adverse weather, stock losses, new organ advances, train routes, corn husking yields, cooperative stores, local bonds, a key funeral, pine tree experiments, lost keys, popcorn farming, and Thanksgiving snow across eastern Nebraska.
A political worker is described as having more business dealings yet taking home less pay than every other type of laborer, highlighting low earnings despite activity in political work.
Whitehall Illinois reports a man once said incurable Bright's Disease was cured after four to five years of kidney stomach and liver troubles. Lon Manley credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving his life after doctors gave up on him. He can now work and praises the remedy.
A garbled collection of quips and remarks about women behavior marriage and society. It touches on old fashioned virtues, funeral decorum, and social embarrassment with humorous asides and aphorisms. The piece reads like stray newspaper folder comments and fashion notes from a bygone era.
A cryptic verse describes a figure with vast wealth who rules over many and wields power beyond dispute. The speaker insists it cannot be a boy, hinting at a guardian or ruler figure who commands immense influence and money.
Phillips and Buschman chased a bear after its raid in a San Bernardino canyon. The beast was wounded and died near a stream where gold was found in the gravel. The men pan gold and report returns of about $100 a day.
George Peck of San Bernardino California slept in a canyon shelter with his coat under his head. A six foot rattlesnake crawled into the sleeve and coiled at the pillow center. he killed the reptile and kept its nineteen rattles as a souvenir.
A pulpit in a London seamen mission resembles the prow of a ship and is carved from oak. The vessel styled pulpit follows Viking lines and was donated by the commodore and officers of the flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers serving as a school ship at Medway.
Austin Wheeler of Lee Maine piles relief on a dead horse by selling a black fox he found near the carcass. The fox brought $150, about six times the horse’s last days value, after Wheeler shot it while burying the horse.
Mercedes Lopez wife of a poor sheep herder in San Vincente Mexico possesses an extraordinary head of hair. Her height is five feet and when erect her hair trails on the ground four feet eight inches. The hair is so thick she can hide herself, and she has it cut frequently to grow large tresses sold to hair dealers every three or four months.
John Combs stood on the Branch widge in Orange Massachusetts and failed to shoot any foxes within thirty minutes last week. His companion, named Sport, accompanied him.
Promotion touts Defiance starch as key to premier results with added 4 oz for extra value. Claim mentions no cooking required.
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