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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1907
Page
5
Fragmentary timetable notes show Burlington entity with passenger services. Mentions through passenger connections, local timings, and fares with scattered times such as 4:56 am 12:50 pm and 4:33 am and 8:20 am. The readable items reference schedules and weights or freight notes.
Caldwell addition lots mentioned by Fouts. Ballard family from Beatrice visited Diller relatives over Sunday. Livestock for sale includes 50 head spring shotees 4 steers and 1 yearling PoledAngus ball. W W Calkins of Diller listed as contact. Calkins recently returned from his mother’s funeral in Plattsmouth Nebraska. Dr Bauguese assisted by a Janson doctor in Rufus Thompson's typhoid fever case. Mrs L Greenwood considers H E Green’s two vacant lots for future building.
Classified items include a 7 year old mare for sale with weight details and handling notes. Obituaries mention County Surveyor N. E. Davis dying at his Fairbury home after homesteading on Rose Creek in 1865. Local health ads promote Dr Shoop's Restorative and DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel salve. Community updates report interviews, surgeries, travel for a funeral, and illnesses in Jefferson County near Beatrice and Meridian Idaho connections.
A rural column notes a boy born to Clarence Mann on the 21st and another boy born to Geo Miller 50 miles NW of Diller. H E Robbins moves to Mahaska Kansas for grain business. Local ads praise Patton Sun Proof Paint sold by J O Blauser. Various residents relocate, business changes and coal prices are listed with Colman & Diller handling orders.
The notice mentions the Burg Ball Bearing Buggy with 50 percent less draft over the ordinary axle and the safety short turn. It also reports J. D. Fanpers and Mrs. Paul Stange leaving for Neillaville Wisconsin to visit parents and celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary on the 30th, with a stop in Nora Minnesota to visit a sister before returning home. Dr Shoop Headache Tablets are advertised as a safe remedy for pain and neuralgia with a free trial offer from Racine Wisconsin.
J W Fouts lists land transactions since prior note: Patton to Hoopes 64 acres for 3840 dollars Hooker to Schaver 160 acres for 10400 Sehlarb to Davis 110 acres for 4600 Albers to Hayes and Tucker 280 acres for 18200 Middendorf to Laeger 160 acres for 3100 Hooper to you 80 acres for 4800 Total 940 acres and value.
A patchwork of names lists Alma Clark Gertrude Carry and Grace Watson with vocal duets, solos and choruses, plus dance tunes, piano pieces and a few notices. The ad ends with a Jersey farm pigs sale and a constipation remedy recommendation.
W B Brun non of Dublin Georgia praises Electiig Bitters for his eighty three year old mother who has used them about two years and now enjoys good appetite sleep and well being. The letter claims benefits for female weakness and debility.
A jumble of items notes visitors to Fairbury, corn gathering near Diller, a Hastings death prompting a call to Mr. Shutt, and ads for Patton’s Sun Proof Paint, J O Blauser Col J B Wright Carl Gale. It mentions the Bea trice Gage county fair, a Halloween social by the C E of the Christian Church, and cribbing wire products.
An old time advert claims the product prevents appendicitis and aids liver function after constipation. It promises regular bowel habits and notes a price of 25 cents from Spear Drug Co.
An excerpt from the November Woman's Home Companion presents a true example used by Anna Steele Rich ards on the contempt for the complacent husband of a successful businesswoman. A department store superintendent rejects a polished male applicant who admits his wife supported the family. The lesson: employers seek workers who must labor daily without long breaks.
News items report a church supper set for election eve, a birth to Mr and Mrs Ed Novotny on the 21st, visits by E E Hill to O B Hill in Nemaha City, Henry Stahl rebuilding his Harbine property, Noah Handley visiting from a farm west of Steele City, and John Scoville leaving Colman for Sycamore Springs with family in charge of the hotel.
An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a fix for burns piles and chilblains and guarantees its effectiveness. Separately, Diller Telephone Co plans new polls near Commercial Ave with a cable carrying fifty pairs of wires from the depot to the wareroom in the north part of town.
A Cadell, Earl Shamburg recalls hard times from grasshoppers and drought in Kansas. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing his persistent cough after less than a bottle. The ad promotes a reliable cough remedy, priced at 50 cents and 1.00.
The Youths Companion promotes family reading with tales for all ages. It advertises free 1908 announcements with sample copies and offers new subscribers $1.75 for 1908 plus remaining 1907 issues and a gift from The Companion at 144 Berkeley Street Boston Massachusetts.
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