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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1905
Page
4
Miss Maude Bell remains on the sick list while the editor recovers from grip. Rev. Knauer will preach in Fairbury next Sunday both morning and evening. Kenneth Fouts is recovering from pneumonia as his nurse returns to Lincoln. Mrs Frank Spear left for Topeka Kansas to visit her parents for a week.
I have taken the agency of the Galbraith Nursery of Fairbury and am soliciting orders for all kinds of fruit trees small fruits and ornamental shrubbery. If in need of anything in this line be sure to see me. If Cc. W. Tonnemaker.
A list of sale dates appears for multiple buyers including J H Radloff on February 10 Ernest Ochs on February 14 J Smith Diller on February 15 C J Lynds on February 16 Wieths Mort on February 20 Wm Manning on February 21 Will Smith on February 22 J O Burkett on February 23 C E Fairbanks on February 24 J L Henrichs on February 27 A M Strawhacker on February 28 Geo Myers on February ый
The advertisement touts Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for colds croup and whooping cough claiming quick relief without opium. It targets mothers of small children and notes availability at Spear Drug Co. It also includes a social purity cue about a popular laughing girl and her behavior with beaux.
A bachelors party was held at C A Blauser's rooms for FE L Robison who leaves for Colorado. After lunch, cigars pipes and tobacco were passed. The guest list includes H S Tonnemaker Jess Green John Greider James Packer C L E Blauser Clark A Blauser Eugene Diller and many others. Robison received a fine briar wood pipe as a memento.
A woman responding to a fat loss advertisement with a dollar received a reply advising her to sell the method to the soap man, illustrating a sharp critique of bogus schemes and advertising hype.
Mrs John A Young of Clay New York credits Electric Bitters with curing neuralgia of the liver and stomach and a weakened heart after long illness. She reports quick relief and full cure, noting the product is sold with a guarantee at 50 cents a bottle.
Eight year old Willig contrasts a bad boy who skips chores thieving fruit and mocks elders with a good boy who cleans his shoes obeys parents helps strangers and attends school. The piece closes with reflections on human frailty and the moral worth of kindness over wealth gained dishonestly.
A Tribune style paragraph cites a Chicago theater fire killing nearly six hundred and a pneumonia death toll exceeding three thousand that year. The piece advocates Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as preventing pneumonia and shares a testimonial from W. D. Wilcox of Logan New York praising its use for his daughter Laura. The ad ends with a product claim and store endorsement.
In a small town discourse, a mother sympathizes with another mother of twins, reflecting social shifts from engagements to casual dates for girls. The chatter notes a popular girl rumored to have more dates than an almanac, illustrating changing courting norms.
The census bureau reports 1902 telephone activity with 65 messages per person for a population of 78,576,436. Telephone messages far outpaced telegraph traffic, net income per telephone was 9.86 with a 2.88 surplus, and 2,315,297 telephones were in operation as wires modernized with 48.9 percent overhead. New York leads in telephone equipment and business.
F Mills, seedsman of Rose Hill New York releases over half a million copies of his seed book featuring views of the enlarged Mills establishment three departments include Thoroughbred Poultry Farm with a 550 foot main house and electric frost protection a ginseng culture feature a supply department for farm tools and an ambitious vegetable contest with over 4000 in premiums to be awarded June 1st the seed book and corn sample are available on request and free samples accompany each book
A Louisiana joint committee toured Angola and Hope penal farms and questioned prisoners about the board of control. A convict identified a young New Orleans lawyer as the man who sent him, then explained the relation. In a separate tale, an Irishman asks for a pale ale and a fellow patron orders the same drink.
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