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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1919
Page
3
For sale a big work team of horses. Sam Thompson advertises Victor Chick Food for young chicks. A note asks if found to rest and clamp for hold ing auuto top down. Enquire at his office. Mr and Mrs Will Kennedy from north of Fairbury visited Mrs Mary Milier at her home.
Rural carriers switch to horse drawn delivery as mud slows travel. Frank Crinkiaw of Steele City promotes Maxwell Chalmers cars after visiting Diller. C G Catlin Co Fairbury advertises Fordson tractors. fifteen units now in use in the area with demonstrations near Diller.
Frank A. Moon & Son announce four carloads of the newest monumental art designs arriving at Fairbury Nebraska showrooms. Visit our locations to view the spring collection and select a monument. Call for details.
Announcement notes the college as a long time leader in business education and claims guaranteed job placements for graduates. Encourages sending for a free catalogue and entering now with no vacation. Also includes a wartime notice about soldiers keeping uniforms for three months after discharge and then only on special occasions.
The Diller Record records Frank T. Pearce as editor publisher and owner. No bond holders or security holders are listed. Sworn before J. Smith a notary on April 25, 1919 in Diller Nebraska.
An advertisement asserts catarrh cannot be cured but praises a medicine labeled 8 kom.-care as composed of well known remedies and claims powerful effects. The copy lists generic benefits without providing clinical evidence or specifics. It reads like a classic patent medicine pitch from a historic newspaper page.
An advertisement offers a 1300 pound item nine years remaining for 65 dollars if taken soon. Paul Logan contact. The note also mentions a man arrested in Nashville for selling an account book to farmers claiming government requirement and warns locals to guard against similar salesmen.
The wife of John Hicken living six miles south of Diller died of blood poisoning at 10 o clock Tuesday night. She was a daughter of Mr and Mrs R B Albers residing 24 miles north and one east of Diller.
Rheumatism causes great pain and sleep loss. A remedy offering relief and rest is Chamberlain's Liniment. The passage promotes its use as a relief for rheumatic symptoms and related suffering.
In the Diller area two farmers who had not pastured their wheat mowed it as it grew rank and lodged. One farmer reports about 40 bushels per acre after mowing. Results are being gathered for broader reporting.
The text states headaches often stem from a disordered stomach or constipation and can be relieved by Chamberlain's Tablets. It claims easy, mild relief with a few doses and notes many have obtained permanent relief using these tablets.
The Village Board of Trustees instructs removal of ashes tip cans and rubbish from alleys. Dated May 1, 1919. C. A. Reinhardt and R. F. Starr sign as Village Clerk and Chairman.
The village of Diller Nebraska invites sealed bids for the position of Water Commissioner with bids subject to board approval. Bids must be delivered to the Village Clerk by May 1, 1919. C A Reinhardt Village Clerk R F Starr
The county assessor C F Stark cautions Jefferson County Nebraska residents to accurately list property for taxation to avoid later changes. He states changes cannot be made after the county commissioners meet as a board of equalization and set the levy.
The piece recalls Edith Cavell and a British government honoring her for helping British soldiers escape when captured. It also mentions Ernest Wilt and family from Idana Kansas visiting with Wilt Eyos garage owners, and Mrs Roy Cherry and two children leaving for Arapahoe after a short visit. A local warning about keeping chickens out of neighbors gardens follows.
Dr W L Weigel who recently returned from army service in France and visited his parents Mr and Mrs E E Weigel left last Friday to resume optometry practice at Washington Indiana. Rev and Mrs Waggoner and a Red Cloud guest who attended the Brethren conference at Holmesville stopped briefly with Dr and Mrs Viers, traveling by auto then returning by train.
A man in good physical condition is likely to enjoy life while the bilious and despondent feel miserable. A few doses of Chamberlain's Tablets to tone the stomach improve digestion and regulate the bowels. Try it.
Mr and Mrs Will Carmichael formerly of Q Odell and later Odell area visited Diller relatives and friends on Wednesday. They have disposed of Odell interests and a Steele City farm and plan a westward trip in search of a new location.
Colors symbolize traits through imagination and easy analogies. Black suggests crime and ignorance, white implies purity and cleanliness, and red signals courage due to blood and vitality.
In a weekly bulletin, a Beatrice pastor warns that Bolshevism spreads from Hungary toward the south and west, likening it to 1918 German advances. He argues the United States faces social unrest and asks if the church is obeying its marching orders as society grapples with the menace to church, state, and family.
Chicago reports that sixty three Y workers serving abroad carried the Red Triangle at a cost of 53 lives and 55 non fatal injuries. More than half never saw front line service, yet many served as stretcher bearers and ambulance crews amid shell fire and gas.
The article argues that surface protection slows decay and rot, since deterioration begins at the exterior. If a material lacks inherent decay risks, proper surface treatment should extend its life.
At the National Union of Railway Men annual conference in Manchester England a plan to eradicate consumption was proposed. The proposal argued that nourishing food healthy homes and open air life are essential to prevent the disease.
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