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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
2
A New Jersey masi is jailed as a common scold while notes poke fun at regional quirks and frontier ideas. The piece sketches Granada gypsies as hillside cave dwellers near the city and hints at Richmond Pearson Hobson’s naval reform efforts. It lampoons social trends, malaria’s renamed disease, and an Ecuador coup attempt amid barroom morale.
A speculative remark notes that if Mark Twain had served as advertising agent rather than president, the food company might have earned profits. It asserts Twain’s ads would effectively promote any product and boost sales.
The shah, weakened by illness, is reluctant as ministers push the constitution. He is too weak to sign, suggesting a need for an adjustable grip on power for emergencies.
George Redford, the London censor for six or seven years, remains a permanent official of the lord chamberlain's office. His post pays about 4250 dollars yearly with 1600 dollars salary and the rest in fees. He reviews 600 to 600 plays annually. The Mikado’s address to the diet is noted as a peace gesture.
Ambassador Reid pays a handsome tribute to the American Rhodes scholars at Oxford. He met them there and testifies to their admirable appearance and conduct and to the favorable opinions of the Oxford dons who he has conversed with. This is official and deserving of authority.
The New York site where Washington bade farewell to his officers has been returned to its original condition. New owners took possession on December 5 and dedicated two memorial tablets. The building is regarded as a crucial historic preservation landmark.
The Yale non graduate catalogue soon to be published names at least 8000 men who entered Yale but did not graduate. Reasons vary with many likely due to poor marks, suggesting backward scholarship. The piece muses on whether early college failures hinder or spur later careers, noting hardships often drive future success.
A January fire in Portland Me destroyed the city hall and police buildings, endangering 700 people at a Knights of Pythias jubilee. The loss is pegged at $1,000,000 with vital records and the Greenleaf law library ruined, though no fatalities occurred. Some funds and securities may remain in the city treasurer's vault.
Mrs W L Merritt of Anoka Minnesota reports kidney pains back and hip ache dizziness and irregular secretions. After using one box of Deans Kidney Pills she says relief followed. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The mistress says Miranda is a fine cook and too good for them yet Miranda insists she has lived there long enough to reject marriage. The tale implies Miranda’s loyalty to her employers and hints at a broader moral.
One hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney Co of Toledo guarantees honesty and solvency. Walden Kinnay Marvin, druggists, Toledo, sell Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents per bottle. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A teacher explains gas production to a class using coal and coke. A boy asks cheeky questions about natural gas and Satan, prompting laughter as the teacher avoids the religious query. The exchange appears in the Illustrated Magazine.
In January 1907 a labor union led boycott against Day and Night Tobacco brands slashed the company’s sales by about 75 percent. Walter G. Friedlander, president, testified in the government’s Sherman antitrust suit hearings. the session adjourned to February 6.
A Franklin county Kentucky grand jury indicted the International Harvester company of Milwaukee for conspiring with McCormick Champion Deering and Osborne to fix prices on mowers reapers binders and other harvesting machinery. Fines under the state anti trust law range from 100 to 1000 dollars per offense.
The football rules committee in New York in annual session decided no rule changes are likely, with possible exception of the forward pass. Officers reelected include Chairman Prof. L. M. Dennie Cornell secretary E K Hall Dartmouth and editor Walter Camp Yale.
Paul Kelly the motorman indicted for homicide in the Ninth Avenue elevated wreck of September 1905 was found guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. The jury recommended mercy. His train derailed at Fifty third street, sending a crowded car into the street as Kelly fled and was later arrested in San Francisco.
A Pittsburg dispatch reports rumors in Homestead that New York orders require wage reductions of 10 to 30 percent affecting the entire Homestead steel works, scheduled to take effect February 1.
A mother credits Grape-Nuts with saving her infant's life and claims it builds a strong, healthy child. She describes preparing a Grape-Nuts juice mixture with milk and giving it every two hours, praising the product as the best food for delicate babies and a healthful option for adults.
A scammer targets Western farmers by bidding absurdly low land prices then demands half a dollar per acre for advertising. The agent falsely promises payment only after sale and many farmers sign, receiving hostile notices demanding payment. Twenty two agriculturists are said to have fallen for the bait in Brown County with one losing 320 dollars. Some refuse to pay and plan court action.
A man professes deep love to a woman who responds with dreamy trust. The speaker cites the biblical Ananias and Sapphira as a humorous comparison to their romance, highlighting playful dialogue about courtship dynamics.
An 1907 Chattanooga letter extols Cuticura remedies curing severe skin disease of an adult woman, two years of recurring hand rash, and several babies. It credits success to Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with multiple family cases, including a baby head sores. The note also mentions neighborhood gossip about Mrs Biggs and Mrs Hilow.
Moravian Barley and Speltz cereals claim to aid hog and cattle fattening across the U S with Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass and Teosinte yielding 80 tons per acre. Offers big seed catalog from La Crosse Wisconsin and asks readers to mail 10 cents for packing. Also a misc note on keeping cheerfulness in the home at night.
The piece honors thousands of American women in homes who sacrifice daily to keep families fed and clothed. It notes female burdens rise from duty and isolation, and calls for support to ease pains and burdens women silently bear at home.
A reader report notes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped Mrs. Ellsworth of Mayville New York and Mrs. Boyd of Beaver Falls Pennsylvania recover from serious female trouble. Both say they can now perform full daily work and urge other sick women to try the remedy.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ailments. It has cured thousands of women troubled by displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities backache bearing down feelings flatulence indigestion dizziness or nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
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