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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1905
Page
1
A compilation of small items includes property sale inquiry at First National Bank, illnesses from rheumatism to pneumonia, hogs for sale near Diller, and local business and social updates. Mentions Wm Woods Sr, Delbert Stotts, E Ames, Gabe Herman Sasse, J Ch Radloft, B F Lightner, Mr and Mrs Reed, Al Cavett, Clarence Eaton, Modern Woodmen officers, and Diller civic affairs.
Fragmented text warns about giving children medicines with injurious substances. Mentions Chamberlain's and Jain's Cough Remedies and Spear Drug Co. but lacks coherent details or dates.
An advertisement touts a new expectorant claiming strong success in curing nearly all coughs. It asserts the formula has been tested broadly, is safe, pleasant to take, suitable for children, and offers a money back guarantee if it fails.
Snippets from the area include Joe Bodell and Roy Nelson in Lincoln for legislature watching, JT Sharr returning to Indiana after work for Joe Carmichael, and London leaving toward Rock Island. A rural route inspector expands Gage county mail delivery, Maude Towne hosts a Friday gathering, and druggists face prosecution in Chicago for impure prescriptions. Community notices urge settling debts and subscribing for the local paper in the new year.
Spoiled Her Beauty Harriet Howard of New York recalls years of salt rheum eczema cured by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve a remedy for cuts burns and sores sold at Spear’s drug store. J C Blauser and E Blauser left for Sycamore Springs to sample curative waters while Summerfield Kansas faces a scarlet fever outbreak quarantining seventeen families and reporting the local doctor’s death from the fever.
A testimonial touts Electric Bitters as a pure tonic especially beneficial for malaria and migrainal fever. It claims to cure by expelling disease from the system and prefers it over quinine due to fewer after effects. Sold at Spear's drug store for 50 cents.
In Webster County Missouri an apple orchard with 86000 trees is claimed to be the world’s largest of its kind. Other items note a 10 percent dividend by the Plymouth Telephone Company and church mission giving exceeding two and a half million dollars for the year.
Classified notice offers black wood including hickory ash hackberry elm for sale. Located 3 miles east and 1 mile south of Diller on Ty miles east and mile south of town. Contact 3b CRe FAinvanks.
Snow fell heavily across the state with six inches by noon Wednesday as chilling weather persisted. Sheriff Ed Cise and deputy Elmer Campbell visited Monday to arrest a local dive proprietor who had fled. a neighbor disputed a shooting over a debt, and a man who borrowed the local paper was shot at. A sale is planned at John Harr’s residence near Ditler on January 49, featuring horses, cattle, dairy stock, machinery, and household goods with Col J B Wright as auctioneer.
A historical comment notes that ordinary wild medicinal plants like dandelion burdock couch grass and curlydock are disliked on farms yet could provide income with small effort from farmer families and warns against drug trade misuses.
A Oakland Indiana man cites his wife’s recovery from consumption after using Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds. The ad claims the remedy kills germs and relieves with a guarantee at 50 cents and one dollar, with trial bottles free at Spear Drug Co.
The notice notes increasing yearly demand for alfalfa seed and suggests prices will not drop soon. It mentions German locomotive engineers receiving a gold medal and $500 for each decade of service with no accidents. Also includes local notices about sales and property transfers.
A column notes Dr King s New Life Pills claim to meet modern standards for blood and system cleansing and offers them at Spear s drug store for 25 cents. The piece also includes a jumble of local anecdotes about job prospects, a phonograph scam, telephone operator work, and various farming and weather glimpses from Missouri and nearby areas.
Local family asks about missing brother while a Beatrice hospital announces a recent operation. A Harbine resident recovers from surgery as a household exits quarantine for scarlet fever. A Kansas farmer quips about weeding by selling parts as mutton. Dr Powie’s finances spark debate over wealth and faith. A blustery spell prompts weather chat. A wedding reports Louis Webling and Tennie Fanders wed at the Fanders home on January 12 1905 with a brief reception and plans to reside on a Diller farm after January 24.
Mrs Cora Walker of Porterville endorses Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best for colds and prevention of pneumonia. The ad claims it is safer and more pleasant than rivals and notes it is sold by Bread Deeg Company.
A reflective piece extols home as the cure for tiredness and loneliness, a place for consolation, fun, and family bonding. It urges restraint in public displays and urges responsible personal conduct, urging improvement and moderation within the home.
School notes report Mabel Douglas back in class while Earl Miller Zook and Earl Snyder join the Intermediate room this week. Snow storm kept many pupils home Wednesday and several teachers visited the Primary and Intermediate rooms. Names of punctual and present students for the month appear among scattered misspellings and partials.
The Jansen smallpox outbreak affects eight families with twenty five cases. Dr Warren Pi and E Hawes investigated with city marshal directing control. Some patients had recent Fairbury business, raising concerns over transmission from visitors. The epidemic reportedly came from Keasane-Fairbury Gazette.
The Haddoriff Piano is praised for tone, touch, and construction by G. A. White Piano Co. in Fairbury. The ad promises refined finish and musical quality for buyers learning to play on an inferior instrument and urges appreciation of fine instrument craftsmanship.
An old ad lists Patton's Sun Proof Paints sold by J C Blauser and Columbia Stock Powder for fattening livestock by J O Blauser. It hints at a rhubarb grown in a box to eat when wealth limits city cousins.
A garbled fragment evokes a scene of birds and music near a church. The text references a katydide chorus and a conversation where one speaker remarks how beautiful it sounds, framing a parkside, sentimental mood.
A druggist named Iman offers stomach and liver tonics claiming easy relief and satisfaction. The narrator says they have never had similar remedies and will try them at Spear's to see if they work.
An odd line of text from a California Florida rates notice mentions irrigation rights and a general agent L. W. Wakeley of Omaha Nebraska. It outlines planned deliveries later this year and offers low priced water rights with a call to write for details.
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