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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
3
Community members urged to help Santa by supporting needy children and ensuring prompt buying and shipping for Christmas. Local items include chunk wood for sale, glass water sets, a dinnerware set, and notices of visits from Lincoln and Dorchester residents.
Miss Effie Greider who helped at the editor's home during Mrs. Pearce's illness was taken Tuesday to her parents home Mr and Mrs Elmer Greider after developing typhoid fever symptoms.
A 17 cent stamp bearing Woodrow Wilson’s portrait will go on sale on his birthday three days after Christmas at Staunton Virginia his birthplace, as well as in Princeton New Jersey where he lived long and in New York and Washington.
State authorities target Dr Caldwell an itinerant physician accused of prescribing for and taking a fee from a Beatrice patient with a manifestly incurable disease. She claims Minneapolis residency and is alleged to travel Nebraska advertising for patients with medicines shipped from an eastern company.
January brings five pay days and a wonder ful first month of the year. The Record offer includes five popular magazines for 2.25. See ad elsewhere in this paper. Our extra slice of pie goes to the person who has mailed Christmas presents and greetings.
Mr and Mrs J D Minkler were pleasant callers in Shea Friday afternoon. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Roy Wagner on December 10. Mrs Wagner stays with her parents Mr and Mrs S F Stull. John Weerts and family moved to a farm south of Fairbury. An old time dance at the Wagner building in Shea drew a large crowd. Mr and Mrs Wm Lee and Ralph Carpenter spent last week at the J N Carpenter home. Shea Equity Exchange received two carloads of coal this week. Mrs J P Gill and children shopped in Fairbury Friday. Several from the vicinity attended the carnival by Diller school pupils at the High School. Mr and Mrs Perry Weavel and son spent Sunday at the Roy McCune home. Roe McCune visited Beatrice with grandparents E E McCune. Mr and Mrs J N Carpenter and family visited Beatrice Saturday. Geo Andrews of St Joe spent Sunday at Rupert Andrews home. J W Gardner of Lincoln was a Shea visitor Tuesday.
Melinda, derived from Melisenda, appears in Spanish ballad lore as the wife of Don Gayferos and as Princess Melisenda who carried Jerusalem’s crown to the House of Anjou. The name’s South popularity grew, and opal is said to be Melinda’s talisman stone. Monday is her lucky day and number.
A reflective column questions human nature and the holiday rush, arguing shopping could spread over months but most delay until the last moment. It notes community notices from Fairbury Nebraska, including M W A meetings, a newborn, local theatre listings, and visits among area families.
A reader argues animals sleep deeply, yet their hearing is keen in wakefulness. He notes white Spitz dogs often sleep through shaking, while newborn albino Spitz may be deaf. A Pathfinder Magazine correspondent cites a puppy Spitz that can be carried unsleeping.
A fragment from a social column notes a question about approval of a woman's film plans and a reply implying ongoing meetings with a different man each afternoon. The dialogue hints at jealousy and social scrutiny in relationships.
The piece playfully lists Jenks as raising a large family and a garden of potatoes and onions. It notes rent increases, a mustache, dishwashing, salary given to his wife, support for his mother in law, and a Pekingese named Arthur. The humor peaks when his wife uses his razor to peel potatoes, prompting thunder.
Cynical friend recalls a domestic moment as a wife who once studied at Alma High begins throwing items, framing a bruising incident. The dialogue suggests a tense domestic scene and social friction surrounding the couple. The exchange highlights the strain without graphic detail.
Catarrhal deafness described as an inflamed Eustachian tube with rumbling sounds and possible permanent hearing loss. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy to rid the system of catarrh and related deafness, claiming decades of use and availability from J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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