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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1904
Page
4
A garbled page itemizes various notes on advertising rates, mailing practices, and local duties. It lists price lines for advertisements, mentions a monthly mailing, and notes general market items across regions. It cites sugar trade, apples in the Philippines, Holland dykes, and a list of historical figures and events.
The farmer is portrayed as the most important class in the United States able to buy national banks and pay the national debt with plenty of wealth left. Regardless of nicknames such as rube or hay seed he stands as a powerful symbol of honest toil and economic influence.
A garbled digest reports on divorce cards gaining popularity, German manufacturers seeking bone stock for knife handles, a cablegram circling the globe in forty minutes by a west to east route, and General Reyes returning to Colombia after a note on the Panama question. It mentions canaries, a long musical trill, Wind Cave in South Dakota with many chambers, and various political and social snippets including a Washington committee meeting about a conference, early airport-like photography tech, and California transport with new weight based fares. It also notes Lutheran prominence, hospitals, and a surge of American women abroad seeking work as stenographers and typists with salary specifics.
A father instructs his son on daily farm chores including milking pigs, feeding, stables work, gathering kindling, churning cream, and water refreshment. After supper he advises studying before bed and attends the Farmers' Club to discuss keeping boys on the farm.
The post office department selected portraits for the St Louis stamps. One cent honors Robert R Livingston and James Monroe for the Louisiana Purchase. five cent features President McKinley. ten cent shows a map of the United States with the Louisiana Purchase. Designs are in progress at the bureau of engraving and printing with colors matching general use and stamps about the size of the Chicago issue.
The report surveys varied topics from Mexico moving toward a gold standard to Texas Oklahoma land transfers, Missouri turkey shipments, and vast oceanic flight distances. It notes asphaltum springs in Utah and rising auto use, urging caution for farmers with increasing motor traffic.
A report warns of potential coffee shortages over several seasons but notes the widespread success of substitutes. Washington authorities say no genuine Modia coffee has arrived in forty years, yet grocers maintain ample supply locally.
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