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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1905
Page
7
A vintage ad touts Defiance Starch as unmatched in quality and quantity, offering 16 ounces for 10 cents. It urges shoppers to try it to save money and notes the idea that progress comes from improving nature.
A clerk recalls matching a blue silk shade for a wary customer who reveals she does not want the shade after all. The exchange leads the clerk to probe intentions before matching samples, avoiding unnecessary effort when the customer seeks to avoid a shade.
In a Boston Herald tale, Sam Wellington known as the "duke" a local character and cook, joins camping trips. A pranksters dressed as a flour faced sheet ghost scares him. They flee then stop on a log for a brief, tense exchange before continuing.
A humorous tale of a bachelor lured by a note from a “Scumley belle” to marry, only to be rebuffed by a forty year delay and the returning message: an old maid admits past plans and laments the lack of advertising. The printer’s ink seals the twist.
A costly winter entertainment in a Fifth Avenue restaurant recreated a Austrian host’s homeland scene. Real foliage hills formed a valley center where the host greeted guests while lambs roamed and caterers’ artists spent about $40 000 to achieve the illusion.
His excellency plans mourning on Sunday next April 12 for the princess dowager of Wales. Ladies and gentlemen in town intend to join in mourning on that day.
De Chappie rails against social nuisances who introduce people. He cites Goodheart as a frequent offender and recalls a missed debt when inadvertently introduced to his creditor. The encounter prompts concern over potential legal action.
A humorous exchange features a proud mother and bachelor uncle joking about kissing the baby and a Europe trip expected in sixteen years. A whist club treasurer fundraiser prompts responses about donations, with Mrs Watkyns reluctantly pledging five dollars to preserve her reputation.
Jobson questions why men marry unseen brides in certain countries while Robson counters that American businessmen often marry women they have only seen by gaslight. The exchange highlights differing norms around arranged or preconditioned marriages and social expectations.
A series of brief dialogues reveal a skeptical view of a proposed photograph of the commutation ticket holder. Jimson questions the plan and cites a friend who travels on such a ticket, while a separate exchange shows family tension as an uncle dismisses an offense and a woman questions her family tree with a pun on shady trees.
Florence Capen of Oakley Michigan describes severe back and hip pain and insomnia eased by Dodd's Kidney Pills. The article lauds the pills as a universal cure for kidney issues with many testimonials.
A collage of old ads offers Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from Watchpine Kinnan Marvin and F J Cheney and notes 75 cents per bottle. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and claims Defiance Starch contains 16 oz per package while competitors use 12 oz.
A fragment questions whether society bears responsibility for the proliferation of bookmakers. The remark hints at a broader critique of gambling culture and its social impact.
The manager accuses the actor of lacking application while the actor complains of over ten job applications to every manager in town. The exchange highlights a persistence problem and a clash of attitudes.
Testimonies from Carrie King of Darlington Missouri and Minnie McAllister of Minneapolis praise Peruna for curing years of biliousness kidney and liver trouble and back pain after a seven week course. The ad claims pelvic abdominal catarrh and internal catarrh respond to Peruna with thousands of letters on file.
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