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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
4
Notice reads the post office entry for second class mail from Diller Neb. Paper published weekly on Friday from E L Loock building with mail subscription until canceled and full payment. Advertising rates available on request and business locals charged at six cents per line per insertion.
A Friday June 28 1995 item offers maxims on gossip and manners plus a weathered tip from the State Journal about using the sun and clock face to find north. It explains how to tell north before noon by counting forward from 12 and after noon by counting backward.
At the last legislature meeting Nebraska law amended to require trustees to prepare an annual maintenance estimate, voters to set the amount, and the levy to be collected on property. Districts with under four school age children capped at $400. districts with four to sixteen capped per child at $50. The levy funds include building, teaching, furniture, text books, and reading, with county clerks certifying and levying on assessed district value.
In Fulham a hoard of gold coins from the George III era surfaced as workmen pulled down Kensington houses. A teapot filled with guineas and other coins was tossed about by a carter and scattered to passersby, with few owning up to the treasure. Police warn jewelers and pawnbrokers against buying the coins claimed for the crown or landowners.
Henri Belmont de la Rue a New Yorker with a Baltimore office showed signs of mental distress by tossing about $50 in small bills and silver to a crowd of newsboys and onlookers. He claimed to be a multi millionare and to give $11,000 daily, while handing out drafts from $10 to $100,000. He spoke of a commercial navy and renting a warehouse to feed 3000 sailors, ordering wines cigars and luxuries with checks some deliveries reportedly paid by checks.
Archaeologist J G Crawford reports five partially mutilated human remains discovered on a Calapooia River bank farm near Albany. He describes a burned red clay altar 24 by 18 inches, oval on rock foundation, likely used for sacrificial rites offering hearts.
Six months are allowed for creditors to present claims against the estate of an deceased individual. Claims must be filed by November 7, 1905, or be forever barred. Notice will be published in the Diller Record for four weeks before November 15. C. Burns, County Judge.
A. Po and A. Naphtali Lodge No 206 meets second and fourth Tuesday evenings in the hall over People's Mate Bank Visiting brethren cordially invited Naomi Chapter No 44 Order Faithful Star meets first Tuesday evenings each month in Masonic hall Visiting members always welcomed
M W of A Diller Camp No 1668 meets on the first and third Saturday evenings in schall Visiting brothers in good standing invited.
London reports tests by Dr Clement and Dr Huchard suggesting formic acid boosts strength. A delicate subject reportedly lifted five times his weight after exposure while Dr Huchard doubled his own strength in two days and trebled it in five. Formic acid is a colorless, corrosive liquid found in ants and nettles.
A.OL UT. W. Diller Lodge 183 meets second and fourth Saturdays in the Masonic hall and invites visiting brothers. D of H Pleasant Lodge 06 meets second and fourth Saturdays at 2 30 PM in the Masonic hall with cordial reception for visitors. We OOW OilerCamp 208 W.O.W. meets first and third Saturdays inviting Brethren to attend.
Go A R Nickajack Post No 243 announces meetings on the first and third Saturday of each month at 6 oclock in the evening Masonic hall Visiting comrades welcomed.
Angela R Kilbourn and John F Johnson reunited after fifty years, having married others and lived in Rutland Vermont Hartford Connecticut and Cormorant Minnesota. They renewed their engagement and obtained a marriage license then wed and left for Cormorant Minnesota to reside.
After 32 years of service, Old Tom the United States Express horse is retired to a New Jersey stock farm then moved to the Wilkes-Barre Country Club as a life member. Henry Piatt, son of Senator Thomas C. Piatt, presented the horse to the club where he will live out his days with light exercise.
A bizarre tax ruling follows a year after frogs legs were deemed nonessential manufactured articles. Imported dead rabbits in New York paid duty as venison, but an appeal may reclassify them alongside frogs legs, reflecting a continuing misclassification trend by national appraisers.
George Schmidt aged 95 of Newark married a 57 year old woman on Easter morning. The item hints at shock or scandal with a quip urging Dr. Osler to leave the country.
A Reading railway detective named A. B, described in a leather suit, lives on grass and appears to thrive on it. After arrest, he plucked a large bunch and ate a meal of it.
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