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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
7
Dora composes a list of New Year resolutions while Agnes and their mother share a warm breakfast. The sisters help with chores, Dora learns by example, and the day ends with Dora deciding to imitate Agnes rather than pursue a long written list.
A promotional piece extols Western Canada as a premier farming region. it argues agriculture is central to world prosperity, notes high crop yields and rising land values, and celebrates opportunities for tenant and owner farmers to buy low priced land, with trips to inspect and move west as a path to prosperity. It highlights wheat and oats supremacy and strong agricultural conditions driving economic renewal.
The excerpt presents Laura E. Richards playful verse where New Year spurs questions about sowing, school, work, and rest. Each seasonal stanza ends with the echoed response Work Bed or similar, reflecting a childlike call and response about daily duties and pleasures.
In a domestic scene Agnes softly resists Dora’s interruptions while their mother urges Dora to tend to Fred’s fate. Agnes remarks she has finished the dishes and plans to go to the post office, hinting at ongoing family duties and concern.
Old Father Time marks the passing year with a grim visage and a wide harvest. The poem recalls clashing arms, a vacant chair, and a loved one gone above to wear a crown of angels. It ends with a New Year greeting and a call to hope and strive.
Dialogue shows Tommy and his mother in a bargaining moment. She threatens a whipping after a dispute about sewing a dress. Tommy pleads for compromise and offers to stop the fight if allowed to persuade his father.
An advertisement claims catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and mucous membranes. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as the constitutional cure via the blood, offering a $100 reward for cases cured, with free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
An Ohio State Journal fragment notes Foreign circles use the term Spurlos Versenkt to describe covert actions. The writer fears more neighbor cats may suffer similar fates as the language appears in diplomatic discussions.
Caution to mothers to examine each bottle of Castoria for the familiar signature faerys as the trusted remedy for infants and children advertised for over 30 years. The notice emphasizes the product's long standing use and the public's familiarity with Fletcher's Castoria.
An obscure OCR fragment reads about a laxative branded as Bromo Quinine claimed to ease nervousness and ringing in the ears. The note mentions a signature on the box and includes stray quotes and moralizing lines.
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