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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1905
Page
5
Spear Drug Co. advertises remedies while local farming notes report poor returns and geese flying north. Births announce a boy for Clem and Mrs Mullen. Kansas moves toward segregated schooling. residents discuss taxes and mortgages. Community news covers home repairs, visitors, and a village trustees vote upcoming.
Statistics claim high mortality from appendicitis and peritonitis and tout Dr King's New Life Pills as the sole cure. Testimonial from M. Flannery of 14 Custom House Place Chicago notes relief for constipation and biliousness. Available for 25 cents at Spears.
C W Townemaker solicits orders for fruit trees small fruits and ornamental shrubs representing the Galbraith Nursery of Fairbury. Thirty men in Pittsburg moved the Grand Opera House a distance of twenty two feet and placed it on a new base in under thirty six hours without visible motion.
A Syracuse man describes using Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to heal a deep eye gash on his suffering son and praises its burns and ulcers benefit. The account includes a sales pitch for Spear’s Damper and a DIY seed sprouting test with acids, cloth, and heat.
Colonel John M. Fuller of Honey Grove Texas writes he nearly died from liver and kidney trouble. He credits Electric Bitters with a full cure after failing with a family doctor. Sold and guaranteed to cure dyspepsia biliousness and kidney disease by Spear Drug Co at 50 cents per bottle.
Nels Brown formerly of this place and late of South Dakota died the 16th alt of pneumonia. Miss Bernice Welton teaches in the grammar room at Diller public schools and spent Sunday with her parents on their farm near Fairbury. Fred Grefe and family arrived from Byron with three car loads of goods and moved onto a Bell farm purchased through Herman Sasse. The note urges farmers to favor small fields with better cultivation, fertilization, handling, and marketing for bankable returns.
On a Pennsylvania dining car a crowded scene unfolds as Philadelphia passengers wait for a stop. The dark haired cook jokes that motion makes people eat faster, then the train moves and diners rush to finish as plates rattle and meals surge.
The piece recalls old time remedies for colds nerves and stomach issues. It lists herbs and brews such as catnip sassafras tea boneset lobelia and mullein infusion, used for various ailments. It cites the belief that medicine was a bitter antidote to expel a devilish possession.
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