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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1905
Page
7
Opinion piece arguing against proposed laws requiring labeling of proprietary medicines with manufacturing formulas. Claims such measures hurt advertising, invite imitators, and threaten consumer access to remedies. Includes quoted exchanges and a reader signature from Trinity Springs Indiana dated February 15, 1900.
A famed inventor with a large staff of engineers and mathematicians solves a vessel volume problem quickly. He compares full and empty weights by placing the vessel on a scale, then computes cubic capacity in minutes, surpassing weeks of calculation.
An Indiana pump man recalls stopping at a farmer who drew water with a nail-driven pole. The farmer refuses a pump, saying his wife Hanner always handles water and a new blue-handled pump would upset her, so he must keep things as they are to keep Hanner down.
A grateful man recounts severe stomach catarrh from years of poor digestion. After trying many foods, he found Grape-Nuts easily digested and nourishing, with headaches and pains gone and renewed vigor. He credits Postum Co. for the remedy and urges a ten day trial.
A brief reflective verse by S. E. Kiser questions whether friendship endures lost wealth. It asks if one would still offer aid and public support, or betray the friend through inaction or slight, asserting true friendship remains in deeds and words.
In 1905 a tavern widow, Mrs. Stubb, faces a rival suitor Silas Briggs who plots to smuggle her boy Sam aboard the Salmouth Siren on a voyage. Captain Peter Blowsy and Briggs scheme to take Sam ashore later, while Silas vows to protect the child from the scheme as a storm brews on the voyage back toward Brimley Cove.
A stormy voyage near Brimley Cove brings Captain Blowsy a vision of a mermaid who warns of doom for his ship and rival Silas. After the encounter, Blowsy finds a gruesome mermaid disguise and a note directing him to the Mariner’s Rest where Silas’s plot is revealed.
A West woman enters the advertising world with stenography, physical culture, book design, and cloak modeling in pursuit of success. Despite steady effort and encouragement, she fails to secure lasting achievement in any path, illustrating Success magazine’s lesson to keep digging for a star and persist through doubt and hardship.
A jeweler tests a gold watch handed for inspection and notes it has lost nearly a minute in three months. The owner worries about possible faults while others suspect the case or movement. The jeweler confirms the watch is solid gold and of high quality.
Congress member J A Goulden of New York's 18th District testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured his bladder inflammation. He notes relief by the second day and recommends the medicine. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Two burglars discuss entry at the back window of a big store. The first boasts the hole is large enough for easy access and promises no more trouble. The second urges silence, warning that watchmen may be awake.
A hostess jokes that her daughter's four hour piano practice unsettles no one as most sound escapes outside through open windows.
Mr. Charles H. Porter of Raymond New Hampshire reports a miraculous cure after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for neuralgia lasting two years. He notes immediate improvement from the first box and complete relief after six boxes, with benefits including reduced pain, better sleep, and improved mood. The pills are sold by druggists or from the Dr Williams Medicine Co. in Schenectady New York.
A family joke on world events as a new frog pond in Central Africa prompts the father to note each of their eight children will need a revised edition of Highprice's Geography. The dialogue mirrors mid-century humor about global news and busy households.
The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Company sues Curtis Publishing in Chicago Superior Court for 250000 claiming a Ladies Home Journal article fraudulently branded a congressional testimonial by George H White of South Carolina as fraudulent. The suit asserts White supported the remedy in good faith and cites two original White letters. The filing follows Curtis attacks on patent medicines, with the firm blaming a misunderstanding for White’s repudiation.
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