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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1915
Page
7
Poem reflecting on Grant and Lee as ghostly, now peaceful figures. The speaker envisions their former clash beside the Rapidan, now replaced by unity. The verse imagines Old Glory over a united nation and praises Columbia’s brave sons whose deeds endure.
In a reflective piece dated April 8, fifty years after the Civil War surrender at Appomattox Court House, J A Watrous recalls the moment when Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia capitulated to Ulysses S Grant. He highlightsGrant’s humane response to hunger and need, Lee’s praise for Grant’s character, and the thawing of former foes into mutual respect on the battlefield.
A witty exchange frames a joke about suspicion of vegetarianism. The speaker notes that smoking the other person’s cigars exposes the claim and adds humor about culinary choices.
Over 100000 packages of Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder are used by German and Allied troops to rest the feet relieve coins bunions and swelling and pain making walking easy. Sold everywhere. Try it today. Don't accept any substitute.
A brief anecdote contrasts a man’s vanished wealth with his wife’s desertion. The tale highlights that loyalty can fade when fortune fades, while the husband’s money was the true measure of fidelity.
Public notice urges caregivers to examine every bottle of Castoria for the signature of its use for children. The warning stresses Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and kids and reminds that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
A sharp, satirical account describes the chaos when cleaning begins at home. The narrator compares domestic effort to a battlefield as furniture clears, dust rises, and the room shifts from cluttered to orderly. The piece uses sharp imagery to convey the struggle and eventual calm.
Excerpt describes a soldierly guide to enduring a trench under sleet and mud. It suggests blasting dynamite and an armed police presence as methods to remain neutral, claiming four to five early morning hours will harden a person into true neutrality.
In the May Woman's Home Companion Better Babies section practical advice for mothers on fighting flies is given. It urges ready defenses with screens and swatters, repairs holes in screens, and stresses garbage cleanliness. It also prescribes flushing emptied garbage with carbolic acid solution to kill eggs and maggots.
Paris doctors Loir and Legagneux report vinegar water kills typhoid bacillus in one hour five minutes. They advise salads and vegetables washed then soaked in water with ten grams vinegar per liter for about one hour and a quarter to remove typhoid risk.
In New York it is said beauty powders will rise this spring due to war price hikes on imported ingredients. A town story from over thirty years ago shows people raiding flour barrels to supply a powder famine, proving that willpower can outpace shortages.
A critic praises a moving landscape picture but calls for added color with a red motor car. A friend suggests the camel hump could be a choice morsel in Arabia.
A humorous dialogue line features a faulty self reference as a character asks for her name to be told in her own handwriting and is cheekily advised to visit a chiropodist instead.
An old advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment to clear dandruff and itching on the scalp. It touts pure fragranced creams for skin and scalp troubles and offers free samples by mail via Skin Book to the Cuticura department in Boston. Sold everywhere.
A mother challenges a narrative approach by asking for stories about little girls who help their mothers with housework instead of princess tales. The exchange highlights concerns about role models and social expectations for girls.
The world’s largest statue is being carved in Ushigakuchi on a Seto Sea hillside. It depicts Nichiren in a recumbent granite figure 210 feet long, surpassing the Sleeping Buddha at Segu and the Sphinx in size.
Modern Mechanics reports a motor driven dishwasher for family kitchens with a conical bottom to drain, a dasher rotated by a small electric motor, and hot suds that sweep and cleanse dishes in minutes. It notes applicability to hotels and restaurants and parallels existing labor saving devices.
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