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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1905
Page
4
Friday edition notices rate details for business classifieds in Diller Nebraska. Ads run until exhausted with charges at six cents per line per insertion, with subscription terms and office location noted.
Reports indicate a third Russian squadron has been dispatched to join the second, with a likelihood that both will join the first. The Chadwick trial is set for Monday, March 6 in U S district court. Congress considers a bill to discharge government clerks who fail to pay debts.
The Wisconsin legislature moves to investigate violent cases of women injuring themselves by wearing corsets too tight. A rush of statesmen seeks committee seats as letters to the President arrive at about 1200 daily, but eighty percent do not reach the executive or private secretary, being sorted by clerks under Private Secretary Porter and directed to departments.
Carlo Nervi, a Genoa youth nicknamed the butcher, cut off the lower part of his leg to prevent blood poisoning after a leg disease worsened. He tied a kerchief under the knee and used a sharp knife before a surgeon arrived to assist, and he is rapidly recovering.
Dispatches describe transferring the Santa Fe system to the Rockefeller interest, ending its independence. They show 72,740 miles in Rockefeller hands, representing about $3.895 billion in stocks and bonds, with control stretching from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Mexico to the northern border except Jim Hill holdings. The note predicts consolidation of steam and electric lines under one head within three years.
During a Tex visit by Japanese government commissioners a plan was approved to establish a large Japanese silk colony in Southwestern Texas. A tract of land will host Japanese families on five acre plots with expected profits of at least 200 dollars per acre. The first group of 500 to 600 Japanese nationals will depart Japan in two to three months.
The Subway tavern on Mulberry and Bleeker streets opens with Bishop Henry C. Potter giving the principal address. Joseph Johnson Jr leads the venture to create a poor man’s club with strict rules, no women in the bar, fixed hours, and 10 cent private stock drinks.
A New Yorker notes Chicago diners habit of asking for lake view tables. The observation says patrons secure a water view but rarely glance at the lake, chatting and eating instead. The pattern appears a bath-like ritual rather than enhancing enjoyment.
An inventor builds a 30 foot long boat in New York using a 15 inch diameter tube beneath the hull. Four screws on a shaft inside the tube drive water in one direction to boost thrust, with a 14 horsepower engine. Tested soon on the North River, the Cornell graduate aims for unprecedented water speed.
A humorous piece cites the New Orleans Times-Democrat on a so called newspaper fever that grips reporters and others who touch the trade. The article recalls river nostalgia and claims appetite for the field persists wherever one goes.
A Atlantic coast issue urges Congress to exterminate dogfish seen as a major threat to edible fish stocks. The fish travel in packs, reach three to four feet, and five pound dogs reportedly consume large amounts of valuable food fish, harming national fisheries.
A Dresden florist allegedly planted Egyptian corn from a sarcophagus to woo scientists and journalists. A boy confessed he planted other grains alongside the Egyptian seeds, revealing the hoax days after the initial claims of ancient life.
An expert rifleman shot three pigeons in the reading room of the Congress Library in Washington D C. It took an hour to kill the birds without damaging the costly decorations. The pigeons entered through ventilators and caused disturbances before they were finally shot.
Dr. J H Kellogg highlights Hubert H Bretz a 16 year old from Celina Ohio who has never eaten meat or eggs. The boy and his meat eating family contrast in health and activity with Bretz an athlete scholar and elocutionist weighing 140 pounds and standing five feet eight inches.
Captain Jack Bonavita faced a ferocious African lion at Coney Island during a 15 minute match before a 3000 strong holiday crowd. The beast raked him with tusks and teeth tearing muscles from his shoulder as he was dragged to a cage corner and flung against the wall.
A local report notes the counting of a hen’s plumage showing 8120 feathers marking a curious measure of feather tally. The item hints at broader progress and human knowledge advances.
Advertisement seeks saleswomen to represent and advertise the wholesale department of a long established firm with solid finances. Salary $3.50 per day paid weekly with expenses advanced from headquarters. Horses and buggy furnished when needed. Permanent position. Apply The Columbia House 630 Monon Bldg Chicago Illinois.
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