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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
10
The ad warns buyers about many white lead substitutes and touts National Lead Co as the sole source of genuine pure white lead. It promotes the Dutch Boy Paint logo on every bag as an absolute purity guarantee and offers a free test kit from the Woodbridge Ridge, New York address.
A historical quip notes that if Manhattan island were divided among its residents by assessed value each person would own about 220 dollars. The speaker adds a humorous line about getting their share in mud.
An old advertisement promotes a local remedy for catarrh claiming the treatment cures the disease at its source. It lists FP J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as proprietors and includes a series of garbled lines typical of 19th century classifieds. The copy emphasizes a blood or constitutional approach to cure.
A dignified army captain stationed near a pond filled with bullfrogs awakens in the night. In a robe, he orders the sentry to tell the sergeant to drag the cow out of that marsh, a humorous misinterpretation of the animals noise.
A New York lawyer, recently hired to a Pennsylvania hamlet, travels in search of a coal mine stake and asks a German woman for directions. Overhearing only vague replies, he leaves more puzzled, yet continues his journey wiser from the encounter.
A Virginia mother credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her strength and enabling her to nurse her four month old baby. She reported steady health improvements after adopting the wheat and barley cereal, baked thoroughly and rich in brain supporting potash phosphate. The ad ends with promotional lines for Postum Company and its slogan There’s a Reason.
A fragment from McClure's features Charlotte Wilson reflecting on private grief versus public stage sorrow. The speaker laments a lone heartache amid heroic memory and crowd judgment, contrasting personal loss with grand legends.
A man named Henry Hobart famed for duplicating his daily life is found dead under puzzling circumstances and a second corpse appears in his hotel room as a fire destroys the morgue. The tale ends with a spectral question of identity and fate.
The lakes show distinct colors with Geneva azure, Constance and Lucerne green, Brienz greenish yellow, Thun blue, and the Mediterranean likened to indigo. The descriptions connect lake hues to neighboring banks and surroundings, noting variations across notable bodies of water.
In Paris the horse remains common even as New York and London debate urban displacement by electricity and automobiles. Paris still relies on horses as street activity shifts, with their use increasing in the city’s brewing practices.
The dialogue features Miss Sweetly Why and Miss Scrawny with a playful quarrel over fishing and liberty. Scrawny boasts she will grant every fish she catches its liberty, reflecting a whimsical, comic exchange in a Puck-style vignette.
E. A. Phillips, a British master mariner, serves as a key official aboard the Japanese training ship Tais Maru. He is praised for his ability and is noted as the grandson of a distinguished English army officer with Boer War service. He was later seen as the ideal person to fill a vital post when entering a Japanese port.
A resident recalls a brief street moment when a stranger, later revealed as the new grocer, tipped his hat and half smiled. The observer notes the incident as a subtle gauge of recognition in a familiar neighborhood.
A small First avenue grocery offers a peculiar souvenir on Wednesday a tiny paper cornucopia of prepared mustard handed to customers with notable courtesy by the foreign proprietor. The gesture is likened by the N Y Press to offering a silver knife fork or spoon.
Public press comments note many public figures appear with mouths open in recent photos. While the effect pleases some, experts warn the public should not be photographed this way.
A Henry Fielding quip remarks that certain minds tyrannize over smaller people to mask their own servility while those in power pay tribute to superiors, and flatterers extract taxes from all below them.
Reports from the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus show efforts to cultivate the Indian rubber tree dichopsis gutta are succeeding. Given the limited natural range of gutta percha trees, the discovery carries significant importance for supply.
Melbourne Age reports Britain maintains colonies as de facto disposal sites for unreturnable criminals. It notes she no longer uses convict ships but when colonies offer sanctuary to all, she releases jail birds and covertly sends them to the new land.
A quote from the Atlanta Constitution features Brother Dick ey saying his sermons put people to sleep but do no harm while they sleep, asserting they will wake when the devil builds a fire under them. The archaic style highlights a temperate preacher’s provocative viewpoint.
A young doctor praises the dignity of his profession while an older doctor speaks little of it and takes no medicine. The vignette contrasts perspective on medical life and vocation as observed in the Atchison Globe.
Nations and men fall if they abandon morality and truth. Subterfuge leads to extinction while integrity and manhood raise the standard of commonwealths to victory.
A description of an automatic Swiss factory device that threads 1,000 needles per minute. It performs needle intake, positioning, knot tying, thread cutting, and returns the needle to its resting place as a mechanical marvel.
Fragmentary text hints at a personal portrait or statement about courtesy and civility. No clear event, person, or organization is identifiable from the readable portion.
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