Rail Schedule Fragments from Evening Edition
Local timetable notes show passengers and freight trains with approximate times. No. 14 Going East and No. 6 Freight appear on daily routes, with a local freight to Thursday at 8:20 a.m.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1907
Page
5
Local timetable notes show passengers and freight trains with approximate times. No. 14 Going East and No. 6 Freight appear on daily routes, with a local freight to Thursday at 8:20 a.m.
An old advertisement touts Patton's Sun Proof Paint with claims of extra longevity. It lists J. O. Blauser as the seller and includes casual lines about local humor and a tagline for Nee y s Pharmacy Rocky Moon Tea.
For sale a good 7 year old mare weighing about 1150 pounds that can work single or double. See S C Hutchinson at the post office. Also painting tip with Stetson's one coat finish paint guaranteed not to check scale off or lose luster within one year. For sale by J D FanpeERS.
Mrs. F L Neff and Mrs E J Woods traveled to Diller today to visit relatives while John Fennell of University Place, in the city on business, left this afternoon for Diller. Medical ad touts Dr King New Life Pills as safe purgatives.
A missionary meeting will be held at St Pauls Lutheran Church on Sunday November 3 1907. Services at 1030 AM and 3 PM. An English sermon will be given in the afternoon. Joan Fittine Lutheran Pastor. Rufus E Thompson a former resident of Diller died Tuesday morning at his home in Harbine after a several weeks illness of typhoid fever aged 35 years. He is survived by his wife and four children. The funeral services were held at 2 oclock Thursday afternoon at Harbine and interment was made in Prairie Home Cemetery.
A Belgian two acre farm sustains a family with patches of wheat or rye and barley, plus potatoes. Cabbage rows circle ditches with onion borders, pear shode trees surround the house, and every foot of land is used. The farmer remains busy and purposeful, valuing useful work amid smallholding life.
See Fouts for rotain. Caldwell's addition for Save No 1 cow giving milk. Enquire at the office. Packing houses announce a ten percent reduction in meat prices. Look for Northern Early Ohio seed car at 75c. Patton Sun Proof Paint sold by J Blancer. Hellister's Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cent at Neely's Pharmacy. Coal now available with prices Pennsylvanian hard coal 11.00 per ton Maitland lump coal 7.50 per ton Colman and Diller.
The item advertises a Burg Ball Bearing Buggy claiming a 50 percent draft reduction over an ordinary axle and a safety short turn designed to avoid upset. Mentioned is J J D Fanpers in connection with the product.
David Parker of Fayette N Y who lost a foot at Gettysburg says electric bitters cured his stomach trouble after years of costly medicines. He asserts he would not take $500 for the relief. The ad touts the tonic for seed and female weaknesses and as a body builder and kidney remedy. Spear Drug Co guarantees it for 50 cents.
Carl Gale delivered a strong performance racing his pacer Beatrice against Red Harry and Sunny Jim. He reported a satisfactory hog sale with forty head averaging 27.46 dollars and several March pigs selling at fifty dollars or more, with none below fifteen dollars.
A moral exhortation praises a boy who avoids cruelty, cheating, name calling, and lies. It stresses kindness, fair play, humility, and refusing to do wrong even when asked. The piece links virtue to character and condemns bullying and dishonesty.
John Scoville, once of Colman, who was taken to Sycamore Springs for his health, died from dropsy after being brought home by his wife and son. He left Hebron for burial after services at the hotel, with his remains sent to Harbine and then Hebron for interment. The community offers condolences to his wife and children. Loock advertises potatoes at 70 and 75 cents.
A local classified item lists Duree Jersey male pigs for sale from B. F. Blythe. It mentions De Witt's Carbolized Witch Hazel as a cleansing healing option and notes sales by Spear Drug Co. A debtor notice invites parties owing J. L. Henrichs to settle accounts at Waggoner Bros. store.
Last day to buy non irrigated potatoes from Minnesota at 80 cents per bushel off the car. For information call E. L. Looek.
A Westfield Iowa resident writes that Dr. King's New Discovery saved him from death after a severe lung illness. He reports an ominous cough ceased after starting the medicine, with two more bottles completing a cure. Guaranteed by Spear Drug Co. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
Last Saturday night the M E Church ladies hosted a corn festival and bazaar at Loock’s hall. The hall was crowded and attendees spent over 95 dollars on supper and sale items. Mrs Steve Maw won the guessing prize by guessing 1138 kernels while the ear counted 1150. Twelve young ladies performed a sunflower drill.
A terse local reflection recounts a cranky reader who stopped his paper and later Death will claim him though neighbors remember the editor’s kind words. The writer muses that the obituary will soon appear and be forgotten amid the flowers.
Annual fall election for state and county officers held next Tuesday with polling in the Bell hotel building in Diller. Polls open 8 AM to 6 PM. Also mentions DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills and local drug concerns.
A Mississippi girl has been asleep for two weeks with regular breathing and normal pulse and no weight loss. The article laments the time lost while other women enjoy the fall display of new millinery.
Fouts reports sales to Reed 144 acres for 8 666 Hoopes to Slocum 64 acres for 4 420 Rockhard to Place 80 acres for 2 800. Advertises Bulletin No 24 to be mailed Nov 15 to thousands of buyers. He is a heavy advertiser and a square dealer.
An advertisement promotes Dr Shoop's Cough Cure as a safe herbal remedy from a lung healing shrub called The Sacred Herb. It claims the product calms coughs and heals bronchial membranes without opium or harsh chemicals and urges mothers to demand the remedy.
The Youths Companion advertises the 1908 volume with 52 issues featuring 250 good stories and 850 articles across serials, adventures, and knowledge sketches. It promises 2,000 one minute stories, health features, children pages, and timely editorials, with a free calendar and full 1907 issues for new subscribers who mail $1.75 to Boston.
A Washington Republican Register piece recounts a farmer in Medicine valley facing invading blackbirds. After discovering no shotgun shells, the man fills his gun with carpet tacks and fires. The birds swarm a cottonwood, get nailed to branches, and lift the tree before vanishing, leaving the farmer astonished.
A trio of quotes spans reactions to denatured alcohol shortages price rises and inflation. The Memphis Commercial Appeal questions industrial impact while the St. Louis Post-Dispatch notes sharp price hikes. The Philadelphia Inquirer questions a Texas prophesy of 5000 millionaires, suggesting wealth will cluster elsewhere.
The passage traces English roots of ale and its language links to tavern signage and rural brews. It notes alebush as a tavern sign and ale conner as an official guarding bread and drink quality, while ale cost hints at a tansy flavoring herb from rustic kitchens. The discussion also links Alegar to a sour ale used as vinegar and mentions kos tos origins.
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