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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1906
Page
2
A Detroit woman reports severe feebleness and insomnia due to winter illness improved dramatically after taking Dr Williams Pink Pills. She says six boxes restored health, appetite, color, and strength and urges others to use the medicine.
A reflective remark urges scrutiny of decent citizens not yet investigated. The speaker laments public embarrassment at hidden sins and suggests broad confession with sackcloth as penance to balance private and public wrongdoing.
Nurse Mother Gray runs a Children's Home in New York. The powder claims to cure feverishness headaches stomach troubles teething disorders and destroy worms. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents. Free sample mailed to Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Professor Starr, famed ethnologist, mockingly calls women barbarous and illogical. He shares a joke where a boy plans to steal eggs from a tree while a companion argues over the mother bird's grief. The quip underscores his controversial view of women.
A collection of adage style maxims on business ethics wealth and prudence. It includes cautions about books and funds guiding success, preferring modest graft over riches, and warning that foolish actions harm future value. The tone mirrors a cautional proverbs list.
Mrs. Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Connecticut recounts her year and a half old son’s severe skin sores failing to heal with doctors. After two months of Cuticura Soap and Ointment the boy recovered and remained healthy.
A passage citing The New York Times urges embracing a negative approach in art criticism. It argues observers should look with sadness and quiet contemplation, implying American tastes should avoid exuberant European models and instead value restrained, inward reflection.
A wildcat leaped from bushes as a forenoon train passed Orange Street. The animal clung to the cowcatcher, was struck clear, and again attacked before its neck was caught under baggage car wheels, severing its head from the body.
A stag hunted by Berks and Bucks hounds charged through a crowd outside the High Wycombe parish church as a newlywed couple emerged. The startled crowd dispersed while men attempted to lasso the animal, which fled through the churchyard toward the village of Penn.
Rev T C Richards of Torrington Conn lost sixteen hens to thieves. Parishioners planned to bring birds to the parsonage, rescheduled to Wednesday night. Delegates arrive with birds to replenish the flock after the pastor was away.
The world produced about 13,800 pounds of platinum in 1904 with 13,200 pounds from Russia. The United States yielded 200 ounces valued at $4,160 from California and Oregon as Wyoming suspended. Prices rose ten percent during the year to $20.50 an ounce, a high in recent years.
Bert Pratt of Philips Maine caught three young woodchucks in a box trap from a single hole. Two were black and one was red. The red one died and Pratt raised the other two on a bottle. They would rush out at noon when he whistled to take lunch and fight over who would get the bottle.
A South Paris man sent his watch for repair. The box was returned on Christmas Eve with the same packing. He found a new gold watch hidden in the packing, a present from his brother.
One of the largest spruce logs cut in northern Maine was hauled into Greenville Junction. The 56 foot long log measured 23 inches at the small end and scaled 1 620 feet. Sand y McNeil named it Big Susie by breaking a bottle of tea on the butt. Logs scaling 19 to the 1 000 are rare these days.
Dr Melvin M Page of Erie Pennsylvania credits Doats Kidney Pills with reversing a severe kidney illness in 1895 to 1896. He describes rapid weight loss from 194 to 122 pounds and recovery to 188 pounds after treatment. Sold by Foster Milburn Buffalo New York 50 cents a box. The piece ends with a note on the cynical bachelor remark about woman haters.
A promotional notice alleges Defiance Starch provides longer lasting stiffness without shaking out or blowing out and promises one third more product for the same price. The claim targets careful homemaker use and compares favorably to other brands.
A European traveler recalls a quarrel between a husband and wife driven by money. The husband admits he married for her wealth and claims he never cared for her. The wife reportedly had $40, highlighting how money alters perception of value.
Philadelphia books and autograph expert V. Henkels recounted a Germantown dinner incident to illustrate embarrassment and wit. A little girl asked loudly what a crack in a plate was, prompting a witty maternal explanation and the child’s insistence on the crack’s movement.
The piece notes that only in joke papers does a girl say this is so sudden when proposed to. in real life she is usually too busy to respond, reflecting lighthearted social tones.
A Western state reader describes years of nervousness heart trouble and asthma blamed on coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee the woman reports full recovery and renewed health, crediting Postum and the book Road to Wellville for guidance.
Lincoln urged lawyers to persuade neighbors to compromise, warn that nominal winners pay hidden costs, promote peacemaking, and push out lawyers who raid titles for profit. He is described as a practitioner who lived by his teaching and urged a moral tone in the profession.
When the new Japanese ambassador arrives at the White House, his wife of over thirty years will accompany him. An aristocratic German by birth, she faced social ostracism in Germany for marrying an Oriental. Her father was a Berlin court official as Viscount Aoki was a Japanese undersecretary, a love marriage that angered the Iron Chancellor.
Notice from John A. Salter Seed Co. of Lock Drawer W La Crosse Wis advertises a special Salzer's Bargain Seed Book filled with bargain seeds. It claims free enough grass seed to grow tons on your farm and adds Cosmos flower seed in the package.
Mrs. Jefferson Judd ribbing about her son Hiram who plans to study the cosmos while a big feller questions the worth. Uncle Henry Butterworth notes the irony as townsfolk tease a would be inventor Blobbs Blublud and his supposed ancestors.
A historical tonic from Dr. Pierce, derived from native American forest roots, claims to purify blood and improve digestion by linking stomach and liver health. It targets indigestion biliousness and headaches and warns against substitutes. Contains no alcohol or habit forming drugs. Pellets offer mild laxative effects.
In a brisk exchange two Inuit youths, Joey and Madge Esquimaux, quarrel over seal blubber. Joey demands a bite while Madge refuses, recalling a prior incident when he shared a lamp from the mission Sunday school.
The article chronicles seven years of rising crop returns in the Canadian West, noting Alberta and Saskatchewan formed in 1905 from the Northwest Territories. It highlights rising acreages sown to wheat oats and barley, tabled yields from 1898 to 1904, and the bumper 1901-1904 periods, with Alberta Red winter wheat proving viable. It asserts a bright future and urges consultation with Canadian Government Agents.
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