Revenge on the Rails Ends in Narrow Escape
Morgan Grenoble recalls a violent attack by rival Mark Moore during a layover near Wayburg. Moore traps Grenoble in a malfunctioning engine and races it down a steep grade toward Stockton, hoping to kill him. A collision is narrowly avoided when a telegraphed warning prompts the Stockton switch.
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Morgan Grenoble
Laura Comstock
Wayburg
Stockton
Ayburg
Mark Moore
Moreland’s
Mark
Morgan
Chalmers
Morg Grenoble
Morg
Gercely
Laura
Fragmentary reminiscence of travel and arrest experience
The fragment recalls a voyage from Telegraph to Stockton and a wife wait. A narrator describes severe injury and recovery after a rival was arrested and later confined to an asylum as a hopeless man.
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Stockton
Passing of the Organ Blower
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt laments the passing of the organ blower as a quaint, old fashioned craft. It recalls blowers who matched their effort to the music, from soft passages to thunderous crescendos, jokingly noting critics and the performer's vanity in a vivid musical homage.
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Focal Paper
Mr. Bellows
Paderewski
Sousa
Bellows
Philadelphia Bulletin
Curious discovery rewrites medical pellet claim
A Brooklyn doctor recounts receiving a London made drug pellet that was tested on patients for tired nerves. He later finds the pellets were misused wistaria seeds collected by his wife, meaning the observed cures came from a mistaken treatment.
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London
Brooklyn
No Lie After All Tall Yarn About Giant Fish
A rural scene plays out as a tall lank man on a cracker barrel brags of oversized catches. The others challenge the tale with skeptical, humorous remarks about exaggerated pike and bass claims and a local grocer joins the banter.
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Anpanias
Funeral Sermon Gaffe Sparks Quiet Controversy
An elderly woman’s funeral in a New England town drew attention for an oddly worded statement by a new, timid pastor. He prayed for an orphan who remains an orphan and for a mother who has survived her daughter, though she is much senior in age.
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New England
Bbde
Medical education and ethics rules in Japan laid out
Physicians in Japan require eleven or twelve years of preliminary schooling. No one convicted of a crime may practice medicine. For the first ten years of practice, physicians must keep full written case records and may not issue boastful advertisements or claim exclusive rights to any healing invention with a secret formula.
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Japan
Misadventures in Yeast and Sponges at Jefferson County Farm
A rustic column in Jefferson County humorously riffs on household science and cooking lore. A narrator, Lena, sponges, and coffee cake recipes intersect with jokes about bakers and yeast, ending with a playful warning about the rising dough and the dangers of swallowing sponge particles.
Farmers and women tested in bread tasting and milking cows
The speaker muses on eating bread without choking on seeds and invites ladies to try it. He promises to inform farmer friends next week about milking four cows, urging not to miss the event.
Bear skin coat mistaken for bare shin humor
A Wymore lad asked a girl to sew a button on his bear skin coat and caused a fuss when she misheard him as asking to sew on a button to his bare shin. After a half hour of explanation, she understood the intended meaning.
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Wymore
Nuise
Test Your Seed Corn For a Safer Harvest
The October freeze may not have damaged corn if it was well husked but farmers should test kernels from each ear. Do not risk losses by carelessness. one day now can prevent time and money wasted later. The Farm Magazine stresses careful seed evaluation.
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The
Farm Magazine
Rural Mail Carriers Get Federal Protection
Uncle Sam extends city carrier protections to rural routes. A new federal law authorizes penalties for willful assaults on any mail carrier while on duty, with fines up to $1,000 and up to three years imprisonment.
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Uncle Sam
DeGrawens
Probate Notice in Jefferson County Nebracke
Probate notice informs that John W. Mathias petitions for administration of Caroline Mathias deceased. Hearing set for March 15, 1910 at 1 p.m. in Fairbury County Court. Notice to interested parties by publication in Diller Recamp for three weeks. C C Boyne, County Judge.
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Caroline ¢ Mathias
John W. Mathias
Fairbury
Diller Recamp
C.C. Bovne
Adoption Petition in Jefferson County Nebraska
In Jefferson County Nebraska the county court will hear the adoption petition for Melvin Harold Burhop filed February 2 1910 by Charles J Wright and Anna M Wright with relinquishment and consent from the Omaha Saving Institute. The hearing is set for March 14 1910 at 1 PM in the County Court Room with objections to the proposed adoption to be heard. A copy of this order will be published in the Diller Record for three consecutive weeks prior to the hearing.
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Charles J]. Wright
Anna M. Wright
Melvin Herold
Burhop
Birds Saving Institute of
Diller Record
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Ma.ogt
Jefferson Cunty Farmer
Jefferson County
Lena
Mary Lichty
Layman
J. Monroe Davis
Over First Nations Bank
Bury
U. S
Casnowe
U.S Patent
Doffite
Tele Ee
Nebraska
Melvin Harold Burhop
Charlee H. Wright
Apps M. Wright
C. C. Borns
Seattle
Portland
Spokane
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Melena
Butte
California
Homeseekers
Berthe
A. T Watson
N. W. Wakeley
Omaba
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