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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1910
Page
4
Terms of subscription offered in advance: one year for $1.50, six months for $0.75. Entered at Diller Nebraska office for transmission through the mails as second class matter. Advertising rates available on request. Local business notices run until canceled and charged at cents per insertion.
The Guide Rock Signal notes widespread smallpox cases across counties and urges quarantine to prevent spread. It argues clean habits reduce risk, cites climate and behavior as factors, and compares advertisers to parasites drawing crowds. It also reports Burlington railroad policy cutting Sunday trains to improve worker relations and reduce holiday traffic.
Nebraska law requires physicians, officers, schools, heads of families, landlords and boarding houses to report immediately to the local board of health any suspected infectious or contagious illness. Penalties apply for refusal or neglect, and local boards are empowered to enforce the duty.
The text jokes that passing through a comet’s tail could disinfect the atmosphere and offer strange cures from curing colds to growing hair. It ends with a cheerful note urging optimism and no urge to seek trouble.
The London Lancet notes a 1731 book by the Honorable R. Boyle showing credulity in old cures. It lists methods such as earth-worm powder with ambergris for convulsions, tobacco ash mouthwash for teeth, bone of a hanged man for dysentery, live millepedes sewn to throat for sore throat, and knee bone of a dead man dosed in conserve.
The famed London Punch preventive recipe is discredited as a Vanderbilt and the railroad president could not stop a collision. A notable rail crash occurred despite their involvement.
Report notes over 70 million Americans stayed away from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition while Seattle remains largely indifferent to the event with little local impact or fanfare.
A newspaper note emphasizes that while few men start an election campaign many supporters contribute to its closing effort, signaling broad grassroots involvement and final push by volunteers and voters.
A warning about reckless joy riders who chase speed on dangerous roads leads to fatal outcomes. Police report multiple crashes as communities push safer driving measures and road improvements.
The article discusses U S and Japan actions in Manchuria and China relations, noting a Tokyo Washington agreement to alert each other to threats to the Far East status quo. It emphasizes open, aboveboard U S conduct and urges careful study of Japan's Manchuria activities.
Reporters suggest the Cook Peary dispute may fade amid congressional action. Observers note merchants prepare turkeys for Thanksgiving while British officials push measures to safeguard airship routes on transchannel steamers.
Forecasts suggest eggs may cost 70 cents per dozen come Christmas, prompting questions about early price worries and consumer expectations for holiday food costs.
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