26 Oct 1906
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1906
Page
1
Local notes include fishing season closing date, several home and personal updates, and ads. Items mention wood for sale, visits from residents and families, a childbirth, and a promotional offer for The Daily State Journal at 50 cents to start in newspapers’ circulation.
A garbled notice touts an auction by Steele & Company promising home furnishings at buyers’ own price. The text echoes mis-spelled marketing lines and fragmented phrases with unclear details about items, dates, and conditions.
The Jefferson county Texsbore Reading Circle Diller section will meet Saturday at 2 p m in the Diller High School building. All teachers involved in Reading Circle work should attend. Reeds Essentials of a sequemer elt and White's Pedagogy are in use.
Partial readable text shows a remedy for sale by a seller and mentions names Mea Ora Bussard and Spear Dinig Us. The fragment lacks clear event or outcome but indicates a sales context for a medical cure.
Dispatches report the worst snow and wind storm of the season affecting the Rocky Mountain states, western Nebraska and Kansas with heavy snowfall. Denver records twenty inches with nine foot drifts, Alliance sees twelve inches, and central Nebraska endures a destructive sleet storm that toppled trees and damaged telegraph lines and stock losses.
Henry Lohmeyer of Gage county near Diller delivered potatoes in town on Tuesday. He raised 150 bushels on one acre using shallow planting and forty bales of straw mulch. At $1 per bushel the crop sold readily though the farmer says straw mulching requires more labor than traditional methods.
The article describes an attempted elopement from Diller involving Mrs. L. Carpenter and a young man, with her three children left behind. Citizens intervened to protect the children, the husband appeared from Nelson, and a visit to relatives at Cubabar was arranged, with uncertainty whether the plan reached Cuba. Additional unrelated notices for medical balms and a sewing machine are also included.
Eye ear nose throat surgeon Dr. Folsom will be at Dr. Bauguess office in Ditler from Tuesday noon Oct 30 to Wednesday noon Oct 31. Spectacles fitted and examinations free.
Advertisement claims sick headache results from stomach derangement and indigestion. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are said to correct these disorders and cure. Take at first signs to ward off attack. Free sample offered. For sale by Spear.
Perley Miller comes home on a six day leave from Pittsburg Kansas where he has been railroading. He plans to visit Diller relatives briefly before resuming vacation on the Burlington and Missouri in Wymore.
Mrs. George Walls of Forrest City Maine writes Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds is a Godsend to people in climates with high coughs and colds It quickly ends them prevents Pneumonia cures La Grippe relieves Asthma and Hay Fever strengthens weak lungs to ward off Consumption Coughs and Colds 50c and 1 Guaranteed by Spear Drug Co.
Local ad promotes Calman as the town’s only jeweler with stock to deliver. It claims watches, rings from one dollar to fifty three, chains, glassware, silverware, and other up-to-date jewelry store items. Customer asks to inquire and request unavailable items.
Regular services are set for next Sabbath with an 8 song evening. The Ladies Mary Society and Ladies Aid meet at 2 pm Sunday, with the new finance committee in charge. Talks cover spiritual social and financial aid and plans for a fall campaign. Country ladies plan to stay for dinner. A Halloween social at Mr Tristman’s from 8 30 to 10 30 features refreshments and large fun.
A historical notice discusses match safety rules for households in New York City and Diller. It urges storing matches in protected receptacles, banning sale to children under ten, and placing a wall or kitchen notice. It also recommends a match box in every room and janitors using safety matches in multi family buildings.
The new Pure Food and Drug Law will require labeling on cough cures with opium or narcotics. Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure, made for 20 years, is claimed to be free of narcotics and safe even for pregnant women, with Spear Drug Co. recommending and selling it.
The Youth's Companion advertises a six week for 1 75 deal for 1906 with all remaining issues free and 52 issues of 1907. New subscribers receive 16 290 00 in cash awards and a Four Leaf Hanging Calendar for 1907 along with sample copies and a free full illustrated 1907 announcement. Address Boston Massachusetts 144 Berkeley Street.
Rain ended corn husking for a few days in Prairie and vicinity. Mr. Beaver traveled to Fairbury on business and to meet a Falls City friend. C Monasmith and Merle sold two bogs for 40 dollars 60 cents. Dvorak will leave hospital soon to visit his uncle’s family. Wendal Beaver and Monasmith teamed last Saturday. Steffen writes home from college in Alvena how’s pleased with work and boarding.
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