Local Notes From Fairbury and Neighbors
Clark Miller spent Saturday and Sunday in Fairbury. Mrs Howard Jeffreys of Odell and Miss Creda Wright of Beatrice visited in Diller last Friday. Farmers are not blamed as much as town folks claim then. When your child has whooping cough give Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to loosen cough and ease mucus. This remedy has been used successfully in epidemics and is safe. For sale by Shutt Drug Co.
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Howard Jeffreys
Odell
Creda. Wright
Beatrice
Diller
Chamberlain
Shutt Drug Co
Buckien’s Arica Salve Heals Burns and Wounds Quickly
The product Buckien's Arica Salve is advertised as a quick healer for burns cuts bruises bullet wounds and explosions. It claims relief for boils ulcers eczema sore lips and piles and is priced at 25 cents at Shutt Drug Co.
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Buckien
Shutt: Drug Co
Old Fashioned Grain Cradle Aims To Ease Tough Wheat Reach
Community tale centers on W C Starkey receiving a grain cradle for hard to reach wheat fields. Local chatter recalls bygone farming days in Pennsytucky as Starkey invites neighbors for a trial with free lunch and drinks. The piece wavers between nostalgia and aphorisms on wealth and waste.
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Pennsytucky
Mr. Starkey
Strenuous Week of Excitement in Diller
The town recounts a busy stretch with fortune telling gypsies, a turbulent school meeting, Jansen and Plymouth Fourth celebration boosters, and several Fifth encounters. Residents attribute the feverish pace to extreme heat.
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Diller
Plymouth
Mrs Hannah Adams Injured in Runaway Near Shea
Mrs Hannah Adams of this town was severely injured when a pony driven buggy frightened by a paper ran away. She was thrown out, bruised all over including a hip and back, with glass from broken fruit jars cutting her limbs. No bones were broken.
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Hannah Adams
Joe Adams
Shea
Shenks Tour Travels Through Multiple States
Mr and Mrs E S Shenk of Newville Pa visit W C Line family in Diller and acquaintances while recounting a long journey begun in April. They toured Chicago Leepenies Helena Montana Spokane Seattle Vancouver Port land Sacramento San Francisco and coast to Lus before continuing south along the coast.
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E. S. Shenk
Newville
Diller
W. C. Line
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Leenpenies
Rev. E. J Lindsey
Montana
Helena
Spokane
Seattle
Vancouver
B. C
Portland
Sacramento
San Francisco
Coast Line
Lus
Open business hours set for April 4
A business announces hours from 12 o clock noon to 5 o clock in the afternoon on the fourth, outlining planned operation times for that day.
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Reiter Seieeee Devers
Uproar in Hens and Humorous Farm Lore
Reading scraps report Mies L O Ballard to begin semi annual disease cure June 28 and continue two weeks. A German farmer tale recalls a joky worker offering to work for pay, then to eat himself for a larger sum.
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Mies L. O. Ballard
Banks Refuse Loans Over Deceptive Stock Contract Trial
In Esbon Kansas a traveling stock food man sold on a 60 day trial and signed contracts to settle if unsatisfied. He obtained about 90 contracts with local farmers but banks later discovered the notes were interest bearing rather than the promised form. Mr Stidman a bank cashier commented that bank managers could not risk trouble and would not loan funds under these terms.
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Esbon
Kansas
Stidman
Esbow
Fertilization Boosts Wheat Yields In Oklahoma Experiment
An Oklahoma Agricultural College trial compared two adjacent plots with identical soil where one received barnyard manure and the other did not. Over several years the fertilized plot averaged about 24 bushels per acre while the unfertilized averaged around 14, demonstrating that careful cultivation and fertilization can raise yields by 75 to 100 percent in average years.
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Oklahoma Agricultural College
Kansas
Each age of our lives has its foys
Old people should be happy, and they will be if. Chamberlain's Tablets are taken to strengthen the digestion and keep the bowels regular. These tablets are mild and gentle in their action and especially suitable for people of middle age and older. For sale by Shutt Drug Co.
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Chamberlain
Shutt Drug Co
Contemplating Matrimony Under Tight Finances
A letter from Burton Braiey in Pacific Monthly muses on marrying Mamie at eighteen despite rising costs. He fears debt and child costs, notes two can’t live cheaply, and resolves to confess his feelings to Mamie and risk marriage.
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Mamie
Burton Braiey
Pacific Monthly
Nebraska bank statement from Jefferson County 1912
Opaque ledger excerpt shows loans and discounts overdrafts secured and unsecured bonds furniture and fixtures and state and private banks. Total assets listed as 211 929 36 with liabilities including capital stock 20000 surplus 5000 undivided profits 4192 24 and deposit figures 922 75 time and demand deposits. O. J. Mayborn sworn as cashier with notary public Frank T Pearce attesting June 22 1912.
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ALR
Nebraska
County of
Jefferson
O. J. Mayborn
Casnner
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Dempster
Keystone Side
J. A. Pickard & Co
Clark Miller
Fairbury
Brown County
Mme
Schmidts
New York
Boston
Old Point Comfort
St. Lawrence
Montreal
Quebec
Lake Mplain
New Jersey
New England
Canada
Buffalo
Detroit
Lake Region
N. E. A. Chicago
Lincoln
Omama
A. T. Watson
L. W. Wakley
Omaha, Neb
Diller State. Bank
A. MaYworn
W.N. Spars
Frank T. Pearce
Sean
First National Bank
U.S
van Bevan
Wey Rete
Sarpue
Ice
Ana Tene
Zist
Chase
Waggoner Bros
RF. Starr Real Estate
Postoffice
Nebr
J. G. Neely
Packer’ S
Diller, Nebraska
Record Office
DR. NM. Bauguess
Diller, Nebr
Claude Ellis
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