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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1904
Page
4
The notice outlines advance payment terms in monthly, yearly, and quarterly increments. It states advertising rates are six cents per line per insertion and that business locations remain active until notified otherwise with arrears settled, and subscribers receive regular mailings until an order to discontinue is received and all dues are paid.
Reports from Alto Pays HL show pie plant growers earning net profits of 150 to 175 dollars per acre this year. A government station reared 425 pairs of pigeons producing 4400 squabs, netting about 1.50 dollars per pair. The text also notes social disapproval of a San Francisco woman who carries snakes in her shirt waist to prove harmlessness and cites a critical New York World immigrant notice from Commissioner Williams.
The piece notes Russia predicting a two year war and Japan preparing for a six year contest, arguing such prolonged conflict would secure dividends for Kruppse investors amid global tension.
A New York woman departs her home declaring she is tired of a life of luxury. She is seeking the other side of life and will likely pursue that path.
A treasury rule bars portraits of living persons on banknotes while the post office bans likenesses on stamps. A Chicago club woman offered a motto about human flaws. The Kansas City Times reports a Missouri farmer was terrified by a slide trombone act, fearing the instrument would be forced down his throat.
The government selects Chicagoan John Finley, Illinois Central railroad general manager, to oversee the Panama Canal enterprise with a $25000 annual salary. The project is expected to take ten years to complete the canal.
At year end there will be over 25 500 rural free delivery routes serving more than 12 500 000 people. In 1899 only 200 routes existed and post office receipts rose from 82 499 208 in 1896 to 144 100 000 in the present fiscal year.
The proposal would authorize postmasters and deputies to open letters without stamps to learn the writer’s name and avoid the dead letter office. If writers printed their name and address on envelopes as urged by the post office department, such trouble could be prevented.
The War Department released a valuable gazetteer and geography of the Philippine Islands. It promises essential information on our possessions and is the first complete geographic account ever published, richly illustrated with maps and photographs.
The note describes American land purchases in Cuba, weekly straw and coal oil to hens, Bonesteel growing from 300 to 3000, and a Rosebud opening attracting homesteaders. It mentions a $100 Book of Beautiful Women offer, social views on respect, a tramp in Germany facing hard labor, Dr Takashi linking goat blood to snake bite antidote, and Kentucky’s shifting sympathy toward Russia.
Viewing with alarm the tendency of the United States to expand in every direction the Canadian government is raising an army of 100000 men nearly twice as large as our army A very large proportion will be cavalry and artillery.
William N. Cromwell, counsel for the Panama railroad, to get one twentieth of the price paid or 2,000,000 dollars. Report says it is the largest fee ever paid to an American lawyer for such a transaction.
John A. Kuhn of Northwestern predicts about 50,000 people will apply for lands in Gregory county when the Rosebud reservation opens. With only 2,385 homes available, there will be one home for roughly every twenty five applicants.
The text notes a past bank failure in China where top officials including the president and vice president were executed. It says since then bank failures have become unfashionable in China, implying a deterrent effect on such collapses.
Official May attendance shows paid admissions 442 028 and passes 985 427. Gates close on Sunday. Racial segregation reported with color line drawn against negroes. Attendance runs about half expected as government bears a million dollars monthly mortgage. Foreclosure possibility raised if Secretary Shaw must run the exposition for Uncle Sam.
Doctors in Providence Rhode Island warn Americans eat too much. They claim a quarter pound of candy daily burdens a girl’s stomach and that food prices force people to eat teas. They call this a blessing.
The piece notes a Panama canal proposal prompting southern nations to push railway and settlement plans. It mentions the Mormon church building a 1500 mile railroad in Mexico and a Nicaragua isthmus line now surveyed, potentially rivaling the Panama project, which may delay opening for years.
Police tested more than 100 quack medicines and found over 80 percent useless. Nebraska’s attorney general ruled teachers cannot demand children tell on peers. Refusal to snitch will be upheld. teachers who press for tales are unfit for duty without court proof.
Herbert Myrick argues the Philippines aid has already cost the United States about 500 million dollars, roughly 35 dollars per family, and predicts another 500 million could be spent in the next decade or two, a risk he terms a rat bold.
Washington officials impose a 200 dollar penalty for removing mail other than one’s own from the post office. Postmasters may err by misplacing mail, and patrons must check their letters before leaving. The rule covers newspapers and first class mail alike.
In Nebraskas pavilion a compact theater offers a lobby opera and stage with a free hourly show. A stereopticon and moving pictures display actual scenes of Nebraska industries farms and agriculture plus Ak Sar Ben festival views and city panoramas.
A factory inspector notes the shirt shop completed a six and a half minute work piece with seven girls contributing. One machine makes 16,800 buttonholes daily, twenty eight per minute, and a ten hour day yields 250 dozen shirts cut by a worker.
Rev. Cyrus F. Stimson, a Congregational minister from Stratford, now in Kansas City, told Missouri clergy to promote large families and early marriages. He quipped about his own family as proof, noting a salary of 3600 dollars helps the cause.
The Burlington offers low rate summer tours to St. Louis, mountains, lakes, and seashore with daily reduced fares and Monday coach excursions. June specials include Chicago round trips. June 16 to 20. Indianapolis, Cincinnati. July 15 to 17. multi city routes via St. Louis. Tours cover Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake Black Hills and Great Lakes regions with through tickets via St. Louis. Contact L. W. Wakeley, General Passenger Agent, Omaha Neb.
Tickets good all summer cost 20.25 for return travel. From April 25 sixty day tickets 16.90. From April 27 ten day tickets 15.20. For full information about train service ask the ticket agent.
On Mondays June 6 13 20 and 27 Burlington offers tickets to St Louis and return at eight seven five good for seven days. Tickets good in coaches and chair cars. The Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln from August 20 to September 2 promises abundant exhibits and free transport for top livestock to St Louis Expo. Premium list for 1904 available from RK W Fersas Brownville Neb.
A distant advertisement urges homeseekers to visit the Big Horn Basin for under irrigated farming. It promises low prices, quick gains, and round trip rates on the first and third Tuesdays in May. Francis, general passenger agent, Burlington Route, Omaha, Neb.
Notice to all concerned to remove litter from alleys in Diller Nebraska. No sweepings or dirt may be placed in Commercial Street ditches or elsewhere. Violators to be dealt with under the village ordinance. Street Commissioner D R Kelly issues the order under the Village Board of Trustees. June 1904.
Probate notice announces a November 23 1904 hearing in Douglas County Nebraska for creditors to present claims against the estate of H G Weigel. It sets a four week publication in Diller and requires claims by that deadline with May 1904 date references.
At a June 2 1904 meeting the Village of Diller Nebraska Board of Trustees estimated expenditures for officers salaries street and bridge work printing and street lights at 700 dollars for the year starting May 1 1904 and ordered it recorded and published. Revenue for fiscal year 1903 totaled 3605 dollars. Axex Bell chair and Huexay Eaton clerk named.
Ordinance No 54 annual appropriation measure for the year 904 by the Chairman and Board of Trustees of the Village of Diller Jefferson County Nebraska. Sec 1 levies 14 million dollars on all taxable property within the village. Sec 2 ten mills to general fund. Sec 3 four mills to lighting. Sec 4 effective from date of adoption and publication. Passed June 2 104. Signed Been chairman and Henry Earlyx village clerk.
Notice of incorporation filed by Charles M Craggeleton Frank Spear and Pearl W Spear to form Spear Drug Company in Diller Jefferson Nebraska for retail drugstore goods building and real estate, capital 5000 shares 10 each with 3500 paid and 1000 to come later. Existence to commence June 16 1904 for twenty years. Officers directors elected yearly. Notarized in Jefferson County Nebraska.
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