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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
3
The article contrasts today’s farming life with fifty years ago, noting the rise of delivery mail, telephones, acetylene lighting, and modern housing. It highlights the farmer as among the largest users of acetylene gas and credits these changes with making the farmer the freest, healthiest, and happiest. The piece ends with a humorous dialogue about a clock.
Mrs. M. C. Maitland of Jasper Ontario recounts a three month old with an itching watery rash that caused constant scratching and wasting to a skeleton. She says Cuticura soothed the child and allowed him to sleep, noting a complete, permanent cure after using the product.
An advertisement extols Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use. It boasts 16 oz per package and claims the starch never sticks to iron, saving time and money. It also warns against 12 oz and 8 oz packs as inferior stock.
In a light exchange, Hook notes people cough less in church when the collection plate is passed, Nye replies with a wry remark about the plate. The banter highlights the intersection of habit and church fundraising.
The notice lists tour tickets for Niagara Falls Toronto Indianapolis Asbury Park Baltimore Buffalo and Omaha Chicago with stopovers and rates. It then describes Civil War battlefield sites at Manassas including preserved fortifications graves monuments and landmarks linked to Bull Run and related actions with local monuments and markers noted.
The article notes Bull Run battlefields near Centerville Groveton Manassas Sudley and other sites show little change since 1861 62. It mentions lasting landmarks including the Lewis house Hampton Cole house groveton old churches and veterans memories with Civil War relics remains and monuments at Groveton and surrounding fields.
An English schoolboy explains that etc is a writing sign used to imply broader knowledge than is actually present. The remark highlights how etc signals omitted details and invites readers to fill in the rest with their imagination.
In testimony before the senate on May 4 Professor Hugo R Meyer of the University of Chicago argued rail rates should reflect broad national development. He warned that empowering the interstate commerce commission to regulate rates risks replacing statesmen with bureaucrats unable to see the large economic picture.
A humorous exchange features Mr Meekton admitting his wife guides his decisions then a joke about a first goat with jaundice and a second goat claiming Billy deserves it for eating yellow journals. The quip plays on gendered judgment and satirizes media taste.
The ad touts Defiance Starch as yielding top results with four or more units for money and no cooking needed. It adds a maxim about a man’s turning point being hands and feet once he must pay for a woman’s gloves and shoes.
Wa. O. ExpsLey of Vanburen Indiana reports Piso's Cure as the best medicine for throat and lung affections. The note is dated February 10, 1900. The text also includes a wry line about people never giving anything away except their opinions of themselves.
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