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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1919
Page
3
A quotation urging prudent money habits as the sure path to respectability and wealth. It emphasizes saving as essential alongside earning, advising young readers to value thrift to achieve status and financial security.
The item lists preparations for the January 1920 Decennial Census and notes involve Dr Gen Newton in Fairbury Nebr and Gen Hicken family planning wintering in Springdale AK. It mentions Mr and Mrs Will Kennedy visiting relatives in Differ and that the Agriculture Department aided the Census Bureau in formulating farmer questions.
Mrs Combs and her daughter from Kansas City are in town to spend Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs Hollenbeger and sister Mrs W J Filley. Mrs Frances Starkey and her son George returned Monday from Pawnee City after attending her brother's funeral and visited relatives at Wymore on the way home.
Mr and Mrs Dana Shea of Yuma Cab left Monday after visiting in Fairbury with Mrs A Friday and in Diller with her brother Sam Friday and family. They plan to visit relatives in Oklahoma.
A vintage advertisement urging readers to enjoy meals by eating moderately and chewing thoroughly. It advises five hours between meals and taking Cham berlain's Tablets after supper to improve digestion and make meals a real pleasure.
The list shows Diller state university students visiting home for holiday vacation including Arnold Fouts Isabel Fouts Ethel Woods Eva Line Grace Myers Harold Hutchinson Paul White Cecil Ellis Harrison Line and Carron Diller from the Diller area.
Physicians believe anyone with a bad cold should be isolated to stop transmission as colds are highly contagious. They warn the sooner a cold is shed the less danger, and endorse Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as effective for curing a cold.
An old testimonial style ad offers $100 for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood affecting internal remedy. It notes a forty year history, a 7 cent price, free testimonials, and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio as sellers.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Remley, Burlington passengers for Lincoln, traveled Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Gemeny of Hiawatha, Kansas, are spending the holidays with relatives and friends nearby.
Filma offers 5c per roll prints any size and 3c each, promoting reduced costs. Address CAMERA JACK Box 5142 University Place Nebraska for details.
Dr W S Diller of Wilsonville Nebraska sails for an early Wednesday morning train to visit his parents Mr and Mrs H Z Diller at their home for Christmas.
Willard Brandt of Powell Wyoming arrived on the early Wednesday morning train to spend Christmas with his parents Mr and Mrs Chas Brandt and other relatives.
Dan Baker of Reubens Idaho a former Diller resident who visited relatives here and Odell left Sunday for other parts. He is the son in law of Mrs Geo Pitts with his wife having died recently and is Abe Baker’s brother living between Diller and Odell.
These tablets target indigestion and constipation. They tone the stomach and aid natural function, gently affecting the liver and bowels to restore a healthy condition. When you feel dull and constipated, try them for a likely pleasing effect.
Mrs. Clay Fry of Ferguson Station Missouri extols Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a splendid medicine. She says it relieves her children's croupy symptoms and helps her with coughs and lung colds after only a few doses.
The Lincoln State Journal will raise its subscription price due to higher paper costs. A limited time offer within 600 miles keeps the old rates: $6 daily and Sunday, $4 daily only, $2.50 Sunday only. The paper advertises wide readership, the Chicago Tribune leased wire, and claims Nebraska’s greatest morning newspaper status. Subscriptions accepted at the Records office.
Miss L O Ballard spent Christmas with her brother A A Ballard and family at Beatrice. A fire alarm was turned in just before noon yesterday at the home of L H Findling in the southwest part of town. The fire department responded promptly and the family, who had started to move out, was moving back in after a chimney burning cut caused the excitement with little damage.
A Welsh town reports a masquerade ball where a black robed figure symbolizing Death appeared at midnight. Of 140 dancers, 122 have influenza, with 12 deaths, including the depicted “death masker” among the deceased.
The narrator recalls teaching in rural Nebraska and South Dakota during a harsh fuel shortage. With stove repairs neglected, he improvised using bricks and corn stalks, then hay twists as makeshift fuel to warm the schoolhouse and keep pioneer children from freezing.
Sylvester Lines born October 18 1882 in Connecticut died December 19 1919 at Diller Nebraska aged 87 years 2 months and 1 day He leaves six children four daughters and two sons and numerous descendants He served in Company C 55th Regiment Illinois Cavalry and is buried at Evergreen Home cemetery Beatrice Funeral held December 21 1919 at W W Scott chapel conducted by Rev Pickeral Ellis Nebraska.
United States marshals and state prohibition officers hunt the wilds of Wayne County for a buried giant copper whisky still. Officials trace a relic map, recall Uncle John Jones legacy, and note a fresh distilling operation using the Lick Creek region to supply Wayne and Lincoln counties.
Ten year old Howard Zellner climbed Arch street pole and gripped a high voltage line as 2300 volts ran through it. John Zerhey, an electrician, shut off the current saving him though he remained in critical condition with severe burns and a head wound.
A new rich gold vein is discovered near Barmouth Wales. The find raises the question of ownership as miners seek licenses to work the deposit. The site reportedly yields quartz with two ounces of gold per ton and echoes historic disputes over royal rights to Welsh gold.
The piece recounts Brigham Young’s belief in music for gospel preaching and describes Utah’s Salt Lake City tabernacle organ. It notes wood sourced 300 miles south, ox-team haul, glue from cow hides, 100 workers, 32 foot pipes, seven divisions, a main section 60 by 26 by 55 feet, and over 7 000 pipes driven by electricity with magnets aiding control.
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