Five Cent Sodas Compete With Higher Prices
Spear Drug Co offers five cent sodas as good as ten cent drinks elsewhere and touts Nut Frappe as a new opção to try, inviting customers to see for themselves.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1905
Page
1
Spear Drug Co offers five cent sodas as good as ten cent drinks elsewhere and touts Nut Frappe as a new opção to try, inviting customers to see for themselves.
The column records J H LeRoy announcing as a nomination candidate for County Treasurer subject to the Republican County Convention. It notes local happenings including travel to Fairbury and Lincoln, farming updates, new job appointments, social visits, and a Beatrice Chautauqua attendance.
A reader from Rat Portage Ontario reports relief from stomach and constitutional troubles using Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets describing them as mild yet effective with pleasant after effects. The ad notes Spear Drag Co sells the product. The column then discusses rising farming wealth in southeastern Nebraska noting towns with 500 plus residents now host banks and farmers hold large deposits often over 50,000 dollars, with many banks showing deposits two to three times that amount.
The partnership of J. Smith Diller and Alexander Bell known as Diller & Bell is dissolved. Creditors may settle with either undersigned J. Satu Diller or Alex Bell.
W A Boggs, who purchased the Mrs. Mathias property north of Diller for his mother in law Mrs Riley of Lincoln, announces that Mrs Riley decided not to move there and Boggs has taken the property back. He has improved it to look home like.
The notice promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve sold by Spear Drug Co as a remedy for burns cuts and wounds. It claims the salve cured a sore on a Concord Kentucky man after twenty years and notes new products appearing frequently. It also mentions a hive incubation temperature finding and corrects a cancer rumor about S Clark with hopeful recovery prospects after recent heat and rain.
The School Board invites bids for janitor services for the coming year. Work includes building fires, sweeping and dusting rooms and halls, carrying water buckets to each room daily, and cleaning stove pipes as needed. Bids due by August 1. J. W. Fours. Secretary.
There will be usual services next Sunday with morning and evening sermons. The morning theme is the need of having right ideas about God. The evening union meeting features a second sermon for young men titled Is it well with the young man. All are invited to join for worship and instruction.
Judge Benjamin L. Purdy of Fairbury died Sunday evening from injuries after a porch fall at his daughter Mrs. John Kesterson home. Born in New York City on September 27 1816 he was 88 years nine months and nineteen days old. An early organizer of Wisconsin Republicans he served Jefferson County for 32 years and helped found the party in 1854. He moved to Jefferson County in 1870 and filled a judicial vacancy the following year. He was buried Tuesday from the Kesterson residence with nine children, only Mrs. Kesterson surviving.
A farmers elevator company organized at Pickrell with 150 members and capital of 5000 dollars. The organizing group plans a picnic at Diller on August 10 featuring a local male quartet and a mixed quartet from Jansen. A humorous exchange between Mabel and Tommy about the Lord’s first name ends with Tommy noting mamma calls him O Lord.
Several well improved farms near Diller Nebraska from 40 to 320 acres offered at bargains for 60 days. Titles guaranteed. Contact Herman Sasser R F D No 1 Diller Neb. A team of horses stolen from M Vinning Mahaska Kan found near Suner residence Elm township east of Diller two men jailed in Beatrice on theft charge Beatrice officials pursued suspects and released animals
Pittsburg woman recovered from typhoid and kidney trouble after long illness. She praises Electric Bitters for restoring health and strength and says she can walk straight again. Drug store advertisement notes cure for stomach liver and kidney disorders at Spear Drug Co. 50 cents.
Hearst's Chicago American editorials praise local newspapers for serving local needs, shielding public spirit, and supporting local editors. The piece argues metropolitan papers cannot know small town requirements and urges readers to support two papers or at least the local one.
The Kaiser has discovered pipes are sweeter than cigars and favors a single custom meerschaum pipe. A vast rack holds many ornate pipes, but he uses one special-designed pipe with a Turkish wood stem and a silver W handle. Only a Cuban tobacco blend prepared for the emperor is used.
A Crawfordeville resident recalls Gen. Lew Wallace advising on equitable wills to avoid contest. He shares an Attila tale where the elder gets division rights and the younger chooses between the two shares, illustrating balanced arbitration.
Lincoln Steffens quotes a Pittsburgh contractor who explains successful business as Push while his door reads Pull. A young man asks if the contractor’s business is successful and notes the irony of the door label versus the speaker’s career outcomes.
An expedition in southern Egypt struck a plentiful water supply at 145 feet depth with drilling and found a large area 20 miles north of Kharga where water flows freely just below the surface. This suggests desert irrigation may blossom through engineering advances.
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