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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1904
Page
3
Mrs Smithers asks what inspired Bryant’s line about melancholy days while Smithers recalls Bryant era housecleaning in autumn. A playful exchange follows with a quip about trousers and a self revealing line on being a victim of maternal intentions.
An advertisement asserts deafness results from a catarrhal inflammation of the Eustachian tube and can be cured by constitutional remedies. It claims nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any deafness caused by catarrh that cannot be cured, urging readers to request circulars from Robt Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
Snappy exchange features Biggs-Puffkins and Diggs arguing over how many men in a thousand differ from a rival view. Diggs counters by suggesting Biggs-Puffkins sees himself as the other 999.
An ad promises high grade standard binder twine with home delivery in any quantity at far lower dealer prices. It touts inside prices guarantees refunds and hail insurance propositions, urging readers to mail the notice to Wee Sears Roebuck & Co Chicago. The note ends with a deodorizing slogan.
The notice promotes Defiance Starch with a guarantee to please or offer more value if unsatisfied. It claims the starch won’t stick to iron and promises added quantities for the same price. It also mentions an incubator easing the old hen’s responsibilities.
A vintage line promoting Red Cross Ball Blue for whitening clothes with a 2 oz package priced at five cents. The ad links feeling for the poor with charitable giving, urging readers to open their purse.
A colorful scene shows Ollman selling powder to a customer who orders more and reveals a quirky tale of experiments on a beetle and spring cleaning trials. The dialogue shifts as a misused tobacco jar and varnish topple into a joke about discovering a republic.
A veteran traveler recalls a near-fatal encounter with a Sierra grizzly. Unarmed except for matches, he faced the beast on a moonlit April night. He lit a dozen matches, blowing smoke and flame into the bear’s jaws, forcing the animal to recoil and flee as his mule stood ready.
A manufacturer counsels a new soap brand to claim absolute purity while his son, fresh from a advertising course, argues for a 98 percent purity pitch to attract women. The exchange highlights tensions between marketing exaggeration and consumer protection.
Frank M. Russell of Cox Wisconsin reports severe kidney disease improved after using two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. He could not walk previously and regained energy to work all day. The note calls the remedy miraculous in Wisconsin and references local dialogue about opera and city rhythms.
A couple discusses life plans and a possible Medford Beach resort as a source of “another income.” The dialogue hints at courtship, marriage, and generational views on romance and financial stability.
A sick coffee drinker finds relief by cutting coffee entirely and using Postum Food Coffee instead. The switch allegedly restores blood quality and healthier cells, with a Georgian case cited showing weight gain and symptom relief after three days, plus a five month wellness improvement.
The British exchequer chancellor Austen Chamberlain, living at Moor Green under his father, rejects marriage rumors saying there is no need for a wife. He notes his father has had three wives already and jokes about marrying an American girl. He is described as one of three able young English politicians alongside Lord Curzon and Spencer Churchill.
In Philadelphia the eminent nerve specialist Dr Weir Mitchell recalls an early career incident. An elderly patient tells the doctor he does not know what ails him and warns that he would not seek answers here. The tale explains why the doctor avoids asking one question.
Poem laments fleeting bloom of blossoms in spring. Speaker asks why beauty fades and time ends, noting blossoms born for brief delight. Metaphor links beauty to transience and mortality, as Nature reveals worth before guiding all to the grave.
A Seville cathedral ceremony features boys entering the high altar area with ivory castanets then moving in allotted roles the pitas segundos and trancas. Their graceful steps echo with organ and violin as archbishop canons and clergy observe in sacred attire. Spectators leave moved.
A country gentlemen anecdote recounts a professional fisherman in Tipperary who nets pike in winter and sells them in town. One customer undercuts prices so the fisherman uses heavy objects to inflate weight, stuffing flat irons into a pikes gullet. The tale ends with the buyer asking what pike feed on.
James Gordon Bennett's yacht recently returned from Europe with two cows aboard astonishing guests. An officer explained the cows are carried for fresh milk during long sea voyages. at port they are taken ashore to graze. The cows are described as of the finest grade and provide abundant milk.
In a terse exchange Miss Spooner’s father states he closes the house and turns out lights by 10. Dag Nervy replies he will handle it that night, declining the prompt.
Quote stresses that a father’s instruction is undermined if he does not live by the path he preaches, arguing silent hypocrisy damages guidance and sets a poor example for a son.
A terse local note warns that the notion of courting an angel is risky and could lead to trouble or misfortune for the person involved.
The Defiance Starch Co offers 25 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition for the five top collectors in Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri. Send in trade marks from 6 ten cent 16 ounce packages received by September 1 1904. Tickets sent by registered mail September 5th.
A steamship line issued a strict order forbidding officers from socializing with female passengers or attending shipboard events. Several complaints claimed officers neglected duties to court. management vows to enforce decorum and treat all passengers, including those not described as attractive, with equal attention.
Tour postponed as ex explorer Willard Glazier cannot lead a Labrador peninsula expedition this season due to family illness and a scarlet fever quarantine at his Albany home. Interest had grown with many applications to join the third journey, but no promises for next season are possible.
A Buffalo Evening News excerpt explains three gates before recounting a tale. First gate asks is it true, second is it needful, third is it kind. Only if the truth passes these gates should the story be spoken.
The Yale college seniors presented a handsome loving cup to Prof William G Sumner, the renowned political economist, after differences over disciplinary measures. Capt Winslow of the baseball team delivered the presentation speech.
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