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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1904
Page
4
By Frane T Pearce the Diller Nebraska weekly notes postal registration and publication details. It lists office location E L Loocks building upstairs rooms four and five and outlines subscription rates and rates per line for ads with mail delivery terms.
Russians are reported to be Tong interest in the war. They haven't much else to lose in it. Within a year diamonds worth 27 million dollars have come through the New York custom house. The empress of Japan will fund artificial eyes and limbs for wounded soldiers. Judge Parker did not seek the nomination despite a $14 500 yearly salary for life. Heirs of George Francis Train sue in Omaha for 20 million dollars over an alleged illegal mortgage foreclosure raid.
Director George E. Roberts states there will never be another silver dollar coined in the United States as the Sherman act silver bullion supply has run out.
The Nebraska Supreme Court rules Margaret Lillie of David City must serve life in the penitentiary for murdering her husband Harvey Lillie in October 1902. The district court imposed the life sentence.
A compact note on postwar state rights and militia boundaries. The text alleges state militias cannot cross borders to seize equipment or parade, and mentions four Filipino students excluded from Louisville high schools as a racial definition issue. It asserts white people are not truly white, describing color as a spectrum.
Estelle Reel, superintendent of all Indian schools, earns 3000 dollars annually plus expenses. She spends most of her time traveling to schools nationwide, using every mode of transport and often riding horseback for hundreds of miles when stagecoaches fail.
United States Consul General Worman in Munich says the export ban on Russian horses has caused a famine in Germany. He reports U S horses that once sold for 350 to 400 dollars per team now fetch from 1000 to 1500 dollars.
About 45 million dollars will be paid to railroads this year including postal car allowances. The authority says the government pays more each year to railroads than the rest of the world spends on all transportation. It also notes that payments for postal car use exceed the cost of building all postal cars outright.
The National Tickets section lists presidential and vice presidential candidates by party. Republicans name Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks. Democrats nominate Alton B. Parker and Henry Davis. Populists back Thomas Watson and Thos H Tibbes. Prohibition slate presents wae Cc oeanka Pennsy and George W. Carroll. first nominees include Charles H. Corrigan and William M. Cox for president and VP respectively.
B. H. Smith argues Southern Missouri offers ideal conditions for profitable poultry farming. He highlights cheap land, favorable climate, and strong markets in St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis and New Orleans. He notes low feed costs at harvest, affordable building materials, and manageable winter operations, urging practical attention to production costs and local conditions.
Southern Missouri is described as commercially oriented yet facing demand for higher quality. The state already stands among the leaders in poultry production and its products, with expectations to become a national leader in pedigreed or thoroughbred poultry as the industry grows.
A humorous collection of aphorisms on relationships and prudence from early Philadelphia press. Witty maxims compare debt and time, caution in love, and social foibles with pithy quips about brides, suitors, and ministers. The tone mimics penny press moralizing prose of the era.
The article argues China’s neutrality pledge over the Moukden ancestral tombs reflects deeper dynastic reverence. It notes Manchu rulers, Nurhachu, and Aisin Gioro lineage shaping worship of sacred sites tied to Pekin and the present dynasty’s origins.
The excerpt offers satirical maxims on people and social behavior. It notes lenders expect repayment, busybodies, the eccentric woman, and the folly of class ascent. It also cites Sweden's winter brickmaking, Massachusetts birth rates by origin, and a claim about men overestimating their reach or garden skill.
Leather waste is repurposed into a compressed form to manufacture cog wheels replacing iron in a new industrial process. The method highlights material recycling and potential efficiency gains for gear production.
AP dispatch reports on July 12 in Esopus New York that Judge Parker awoke at 1 AM when a coach horse escaped its barn. He and Secretary McCausland searched by candlelight but struggled to locate the horse until ten minutes later.
Special report describes Judge Parker rising at 7:23, dressing, breakfasting on six ounces of food, a pint of coffee, nineteen strawberries and two eggs, then speaking 36 words to a hired man on the porch. A horse nearly kicked him as he prepared to enter his home in Esopus.
The post office department bans two large city matrimonial services for fraud and issues fraud orders against several patent medicine firms. Frank D. McCay Globe Advertising Agency Boston and Frank Far Singten New Orleans are named in the actions.
A humorous note suggests keeping a summer romance alive costs a long pocketbook as the season wears on, highlighting the expense of maintaining interest through warmer months.
An ordinance in Diller Nebraska regulates license to sell malt spirituous and vinous liquors. It requires a petition signed by thirty residents, two weeks newspaper notices, a $500 license fee, bond with two sureties, and posting with official seals.
The village of Diller enacts liquor regulations restricting sale and distribution of malt spirits and vinous liquors. Violations carry fines from fifty to five hundred dollars, with license suspension or revocation by the Chairman and Board of Trustees after due notice. Permits may be granted for medicinal and industrial uses, and all inconsistent ordinances are repealed.
Notice from Nebraska County of Jefferson for the estate of Abraham Blaser. Creditors must file claims with the county judge by December 23, 1904, to be examined and allowed. Six months are allowed for claims. failure to file by the deadline bars them. Publication to run four weeks in the Diller Record before December 23, 1904.
Jefferson County Nebraska order sets hearing on the petition for administration of James T. Bell estate. The county judge designates July 2 1904 at 1 pm for the hearing and requires publication in the Diller Record weekly for three weeks prior. Interested parties must appear and show cause why the petition should not be granted.
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