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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
3
Two men described as Germans dressed as laborers cashed forged checks at multiple merchants in Nebraska City. They used the name Martin Wickhorst and targeted sums matching payrolls. After cashing about a dozen checks they fled town. Police offer a $25 reward for their capture.
Two Missouri Pacific freight trainmen, fireman F. J. Kirk from Kansas City and head brakeman J. J. Miller, were crushed to death at the Oreapolis interlocking semaphore station when the engine derailed after passing a switching point. Conductor Clawson was slightly injured as the engineer leaped free. Reports say the semaphore signals were disregarded or the engineer lost control on a downhill approach to the crossing with Burlington.
Jasper Kipling, about forty, of a farm twelve miles northwest of Humboldt, died when a wagon wheel crushed his head after he fell from a load of lumber. He left a wife and four children and had been hauling lumber to build a new house when the accident occurred away from home. Neighbors alerted by telephone halted the team and found him dead beside the road with a crushed skull.
About 1,000 population with nearly 3 12 percent over seventy. The list names many aged residents including Mrs Margaret Jones 87 Mrs Elizabeth Ball 84 Mrs Emily Fisher 79 Mrs Catharine Heywood 79 Mrs Mary Hanna 78 Mrs Jane Groves 78 W. Talbot Ebenezer F Decker and others aged mid seventies to seventy. Nearly a score more are within a year or two of seventy.
The article notes a blacksmith from the town of Glenville who has run a lucrative business and, when sober, is regarded as a good citizen.
Grand Island mayor orders Night Patrolman Murphy off duty for five days after an impromptu midnight check at the uncompleted lighting building. Rumors of officers napping on night shifts prompted the surprise action and a recommendation for clocking in with timekeeping systems.
Three men from Lake Andes perished after driving onto thin ice on the Missouri River near Fort Randall just north of the Nebraska line. Herbert Cashman aged 60 Danna Slate aged 32 and Ed Slate aged 22 were in a wagon when an air hole opened and the team sank. Ed Slate’s body was recovered. the other two remain missing. All three left families and owned property near Fort Randall.
At a Lincoln meeting of state county assessors last week, proposed changes in revenue laws were discussed and the legislature may be asked to act. Lancaster County Assessor Miller advocates requiring mortgage holders to file documents for registration and taxation, with the tax as a lien on the mortgaged property collectible by the city.
Mrs. Fannie Seiss of Elk Creek suffered a paralytic stroke affecting her whole right side and rendering her speechless for a short time. Confined to bed, she is slightly improved after a sudden illness while she had just sat down to dinner.
Real estate records show a saloon or restaurant to be built near the government site for the post office in Grand Island. John Windolph bought an alley corner east of the building and across the street.
Seneca notes that core philosophical truths endure unscathed across ages. Each century increases respect for enduring ideas while people value what is close with envy yet revere distant concepts more openly.
A French governed province at Saint de Moorvay in Mada gascar hosts a unique cavalry band that fights on oxen. The lean beasts pull the soldiers swiftly as they conduct military operations along the east coast of Africa under the French governor general.
Important to Mothers. Inspect each bottle of Castoria to ensure safety and efficacy for infants and children, confirming proper labeling and dosage guidance before use.
A Worcestershire farmer sent Dr W G Grace a gift of one of three young pigs to honor a great batting feat witnessed by the cricketer. The gesture, while generous, proved somewhat embarrassing for the renowned English player.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh, a constitutional disease, by taking it internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 if it fails to cure and urge sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with bold claims and the mentioned constipation remedy.
An Official Gazette from Lima Peru asserts Gen Kuroki a Peruvian descendant claiming his father Transito Charroga a Peruvian patriot. The note traces ancestry to the Incas and suggests an Asiatic lineage linking Kuroki to his ancestral homeland.
The Bank of England pursues prosecutions for frauds to protect the public purse, while the Rothschilds avoid appealing to courts or police. They prefer bearing losses in silence to avoid undermining confidence in the safety of their finances.
An Indiana woman recounts six years of coffee use causing headaches nervousness and dizziness with sour belching and poor eyesight. After switching to Postum her symptoms eased and vision improved. She notes a friend liked Postum when prepared as directed and attributes relief to quitting coffee.
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