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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
5
A garbled local page mentions a stray pig available for 20 cents, visits from Beatrice and Steele City residents, and notes on car care products and banking suggestions. Names referenced include Al Ballard, L O Ballard, J B Kerr, and S H Gas Saver. The tone mirrors a small town column with varied items and casual social chatter.
Mrs. Mary Emerson and her son Jim traveled from Beatrice to visit Diller relatives on Sunday. E A Bugbee, longtime Newton resident, marked his 80th birthday with a family dinner at D A Bugbee’s home six miles southwest of Diller.
A social dance will be held in Sible hall Odell on Friday night May 25 with music by the Adel band. H Sible invites all.
A short advertisement touts a remedy for whooping cough as highly effective. It claims rapid relief for infants and promises the medicine is obtainable everywhere. Names or dates are not clearly specified in the fragment.
Citizens are urged to shop locally to keep money circulating within the community. Local dealers are encouraged to show patriotism by maintaining low prices, with every small effort helping both sides.
The ten weeks old infant of Mr. and Mrs. Geo Blakely near Harbine died Sunday evening from convulsions amid illness of its mother Miss Bessie Cherry a nurse. The child had shown improvement recently, gaining a pound and a half in a week before passing. The Coffin relatives took the body to Beatrice for later burial preparation.
Fragmentary note claims catarrh is cured by local remedies though some pronounce it incurable. The brief hints at treatment suggestions and skepticism about effectiveness.
A small resident property in Diller requires inquiry at the office. A proverb about a town likened to a girl appears. The Army of the Tillers is praised as potential immortals. A quote about a hoe and a close-play titled Prof. Pepp is slated for the opera house tonight. A Presbyterian missionary meeting with Mrs Callander is set for May 24 at 2 30 p m led by Mrs Hutchinson.
The Jefferson County Sunday School Association holds its 26th annual creation in the M B E Church at Diller as the Record goes to press this week.
Dr. S B Viers traveled by car to Liberty on Wednesday to perform three very difficult surgical operations. He reported the roads were very rough.
Mr and Mrs John Pulee drove to Greenleaf Kansas and back on Sunday. They were joined by Mrs Warthen and daughter Flora as far as Washington where Mrs Warthen visited her son CC Warthen and family.
A narrator links ancient Greek Pythagoreans and temperance to a modern health symbol. The text promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy for indigestion biliousness and constipation promising quick relief and wide availability. The ad blends historical imagery with modern product appeal.
At the March meeting teachers debated Eighth Grade graduating exercises. They favor promotion ceremonies from all grades to encourage continued education and propose ending the school year with a matriculation program. Patrons and parents would attend to celebrate pupils finishing the highest grade.
The Diller Shipping sen. issued a note about a mixed load stock Monday. Everett Green succeeds H. W. Clark in handling RB and L Co oil at Diller and seeks patronage. W H Schmuelle, cashier of Citizens State Bank, traveled to Lincoln for a Nebraska Bankers Association meeting. Dr A F Steffen of Scotts Bluffs visits his parents in Diller and remarks on Scotts Bluffs country.
A testimonial from Anna Radin credits Chamberlains Tablets with curing long stomach troubles after many remedies failed. She calls the tablets positive and lasting relief and notes they are obtainable everywhere.
Nebraska imposes a ban on advertising on bridges or culverts with exceptions for road markets. Violations incur a $100 fine and potential imprisonment until the fine and costs are paid.
A man from Wymore Nebraska visited a Kansas City saloon last week and wrote on a pad asking for a glass of beer. He drank quickly and placed a quarter on the counter, which the bartender refused to accept. The bartender then wrote a retort about not charging dumb men, prompting the Nebraskan reply that he is not deaf and dumb and is from Nebraska and very dry.
The sixth grade takes final exams in arithmetic and language today while sickness causes many absences in lower grades. Several students were half day absent, and Evelyn Stotts and Harold Stotts left school for the rest of the year. Tardiness rises due to spring weather and sunny days. First grade to finish reading this week. Boys and girls basketball team photos taken. work by Rusher of Fairbury. Tennis grows popular among high schoolers with many improving skills during spare time. Sophomore trip to Steele City for botany yielded many finds and a fine lunch. Senior class play may be purchased at the door.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Toda of Fairbury and others visited Diller on Sunday. Miss Bessie Cherry returned home yesterday from nursing Mrs. Lempe at the home of Mr. Overbeck, nine miles north of Diller.
J. D. Cherry and his family traveled in a Buick on Sunday to Adams for a day of visiting old acquaintances.
If you suffer from chronic or muscular rheumatism Chamberlain's Liniment offers relief from pain. The product claims helpful results justify its cost and is obtainable everywhere.
W E Mudge drove his Ford to Lincoln to visit his daughter Mrs Harry Wells and her children from Thedford Nebraska. Mr and Mrs A L Tiatsman accompanied him for a few days and Mrs Ray Mudge joined them to Beatrice.
A brief note from Wymorean compares corn and paper costs from 20 years ago to today. It shows corn eight cents a bushel then versus over eight times that now, and print paper rising from $30 to $120 a ton. The piece argues a $1.50 annual newspaper would cost about $21 now based on purchasing power.
A historical analysis argues that converting the 1916 U S wheat crop of 640 million bushels to whole wheat flour yields 770 million 50 pound sacks, with a surplus for export. It contrasts this with white flour, citing health officials and Dr Banks, and notes losses in food value and potential shortages at home.
A call to increase wheat use to avert famine argues whole wheat flour should replace bolted flour. The text compares nutrition in wheat and potatoes, cites price relations, and urges government or war measures to require whole wheat flour for human food.
The piece titled Mother Shipton Prophecy traces a long publication history from 1488 and 1641 with many reprints. It claims carriages without horses will fill the world with woe and predicts wonders in a land not yet known, with fire and water doing wonders and a world ending in nineteen hundred.
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