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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1904
Page
2
Alfalfa seed markets show high prices yet large sales persist. Beatrice Manufacturing Company is incorporated with 100000 dollars capital, 20000 paid in. Various local notes on taxes, courts, and public works fill the page, including river line extensions, farm meetings, and fire department reports.
An advertisement claims kidney trouble causes back ache dizziness headaches and insomnia. It promotes Dean's Kidney Pills by Mrs. William W. Brown of Paterson New Jersey and urges mail orders from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. It notes a 60 cent price and druggist availability. A closing jab mocks widows and remarriage.
A jumble of patent medicine claims and oddball notices appears. Mentions Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a 35 cent price, Allen's Foot Ease, and various dubious testimonials. Also references a Yale profanity society and crude stage doggerel about Macbeths. Contains stray foreign phrases and scattered product pitches.
The article reports that the Western Turf Investment case, backed by Attorney General Robb and the post office department, holds that receiving bets on races violates laws prohibiting lotteries and games of chance. It notes a prohibition on using the mails for such betting.
A reader reports quitting coffee for Postum improves stomach and nervous troubles and ends headaches and biliousness. The letter cites neighbors cured after stopping coffee and credits Postum with enabling work, sewing, and daily tasks.
The movement of American farmers into Canada grows monthly with forty four states represented in official records. Dakotas lead arrivals with 4006, Minnesota 3887, while all states except Alabama Mississippi and Delaware show settlers who became Canadian citizens. Over 13 841 Americans sought homestead land in Canada last year as wheat and ranching communities push toward the Northwest.
State board of assessment meeting discussed taxing railroad franchises while fraternal insurance securities remain untaxed. Major voices argued franchises should be taxed. lawmakers and attorneys urged lower valuation of intangible assets. May 11 set for general hearing. attendees included D Pollard, Scribner, Maher, Cooper, Higley, Brandon, Whiting, Benton, and others.
The Philadelphia mint reports a record gold coinage run from February 6 to April 16 totaling $60,180,390 in $20 pieces. The week ending April 16 produced $11,302,600 in gold, averaging nearly $2 million daily, with a final day output of $2,500,000. The week’s weight exceeded forty-two tons and no other mint has matched this feat.
Frisco Utah May 2 There is widespread rheumatism in Utah and neighboring states. Dodd's Kidney Pills are claimed to cure many cases including a Mr Grave who could barely walk. His wife confirms benefit from the pills and reports similar results across the state.
The Campbell Bros circus car burned after a gasoline torch exploded as the keeper inspects the elephant cage. One large elephant Venus was buried. About 30 000 dollars estimated loss with no insurance.
Secretary McClelland of Chanute Kansas received a telegram from General Manager Spooner announcing that the contract had been let for the first sixteen miles of the road and that grading work will begin at once. The building of the road starts on the east end.
General L W Colby’s hearing in federal court will be delayed until the June session in Omaha. Governor Mickel has visited Omaha to confer with District Attorney Baxter about the case as the court waits for the adjutant general records examination. Special Examiner Wiggins is reviewing Colby administration books and will file a preliminary report.
The text details a proposed Nebraska homestead law restricting entries to parcels up to 640 acres, outlining boundary lines along several meridians and parallels. It sets conditions on irrigation feasibility, entry sequence, and final proof of improvements, with preferential rights limited after passage.
An editorial in a Warsaw Hebrew daily reports rabbis urging Jewish soldiers to grant conditional divorces before leaving for battle. Lodz rabbis advocate widespread adoption across Russia, requiring soldiers to register wives with rabbis, enabling remarriage if the husband does not return in time.
An elderly man recalls nostalgia for lower drink prices and reveals 1826 bills from John Hoffman showing rye whisky 2 cents a gallon and Jamaica rum 3 3/4 cents, with cherry cordial 36 cents and cognac 11 dollars per gallon, contrasting today’s costs.
The article notes radium illumination for gun sights and fiducial marks that work in darkness. Andrew Common of Eaton Rise led early attempts using radium to improve aiming devices, with patents granted to his widow Mrs Common after accepting complete specifications. London Daily Mail reports the development.
Fragmentary lines reflect personal loss and questions about how loved ones cope after death. The text phrases sorrow and curiosity about who will remember and aid those left behind.
Fragmentary OCR text references seasickness in voyage, Rome, American travelers, and winter weather warnings. It mentions crossing oceans, sleeping difficulties, and a distressed voice in a room, with jumbled names and phrases. The passage is incoherent and lacks a complete report of events or persons.
The quadrennial United Methodist session in Los Angeles California will be historic with debate on liquor and race questions church responses to dancing theatre and card playing and motions to stop lynching and debates on itineraries bishops election retirements and other reforms.
The Hog Raisers Mutual Insurance receiver seeks court permission to cure an assessment after the 1900 01 cholera epidemic led to the company’s collapse. Stockholders face contributions from 50 to 150 dollars based on their interest as a heavy levy is anticipated.
In a Norwegian town, Fredriksvallen, a consular shield for the Sahara Empire appears in a barber shop window. The notice links Jacques Lebaudy, titled Emperor of the Sahara, to a Brussels based court establishing northern European consular agencies.
The Russian battleship Retvisan, long noted in Port Arthur dispatches, is named after a Swedish sixty four gun battleship captured by Russians at Viorg in eighteen hundred eighty. The term Retvisan signifies justice.
Manitoba grain growers meeting in Winnipeg passed a resolution urging immediate construction of a railway to Hudson Bay as a highway of commerce connecting the Canadian Northwest with eastern markets.
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