Local notes include weather, prices, and Arbor Day observance
Jefferson County reports home weather on Sunday and a 15 cent per bushel price for shelled corn on subscription. B F Lightner is sole agent and offers refunds after using Dr Feaner's medicines. Evergreens reach 2 to 4 feet at 20 cents each from Jansen Nursery. Apricot and peach trees suffered blossom loss from recent wind. Mrs Geo Myers improves expect speedy recovery. Beggs Hair Renewer advertised. John Specht returns home to Diller. Dr Cogswell, Geneva dentist, to visit Spiller April 26 27. Diller Schools celebrate Arbor Day with tree planting and exercises.
Will Brock and neighbors active in Fairbury social life
Will Brock a Peoples' State Bank accountant spent Sunday in Fairbury riding his wheel. Aaron Beck returns from Town to preach next Sunday at the Christian Church. Bertha Henderson taught at Diller Schools last year visiting in the city. Forest Hartzell renovates his butcher shop with new wallpaper and paint. See J P Lowe & Son for farm machinery and drill combinations. The B M westbound passenger train arrives on time after track damage from high water east of Rulo. One Minute Couplet on prevention and cure of consumption referenced.
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Will Brock
Peoples’ State Bank
Fairbury
Rulo
Kansas Editor Quotes Grim View On Birth and Mortality
A Kansas editor is quoted describing birth as a grim start toward death, claiming a person is born into a life filled with microbes and destinied for the grave from the moment of entering the world.
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Kansas
Chamberlain's Remedy Becomes Household Word Across Communities
A historical note recalls Chamberlain's Remedy gaining wide recognition in many communities. The text mentions a buyer named Warren from Y.Y. and references the remedy's well known status in households. It hints at a sale by J. W. but lacks complete details.
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R. J. Warren
Local Notes and Education Items from Diller Area
Miss Anna Grotts returned yesterday from Grand Island and is visiting with friends in Diller and vicinity. An eighth grade examination will be held in Oidler May 7. All pupils from the city desiring to attend Diller High Schools should take this examination.
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Anna Grotts
Grand Island
Diller
Oidler
Oity
Curious free silver map as political satire cited
The Council Grove Republican notes a man displaying a Bryan free silver map as a campaign supplement. It depicts the United States as a free silver dog led by the gold bug, with only a few New England states conceding gold standard and the rest supporting free silver.
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United States
New England
Council Grove
Great Chemist Offers Free Remedies For Consumption
An advertisement by T A Blocum M D from New York promises to send three free bottles of a new remedy for consumption and lung troubles to the afflicted. The offer asks only for the recipient’s postal or express address and cites a “scientific course of medicine” claimed to have cured many cases.
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T. A. Blocum
M.D
T. A. Slocum
Pearl Street
New York
Orien
Plese
Reed
Path to a Self Sufficient Farm Life
A farm guide advises living within means while improving home beauty and purpose. It urges diversification, practical education, gentle family guidance, timely investments, honest work, and prudent debt avoidance to nurture a self supporting rural life.
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Jefferson Co. Record
Geo
B.F. Lightner
Dr. Feaner
Jansen Nursery
Ltautner
John Specht
Cogswell
Geneva
Spiller
Aaron Beck
Christian Church
Bertha Henderson
Forest Hartzell
J. P. Lowe & Son
Lister
Peyton
B. F. W. Lightner
Partisan Toilet Co
Michigan St
Chicago
Sarren
Isore
Melih
Farm Journal
Frank T. Pearce
Nebraska
the Hawks Nursery Company
Milwaukee, Wis
A. J. Sheldon
Fairbury and Diller
Neb
Uncle Sam
SER
the Best
Demorest
Ce Paper Fatibeng
Demorest’s Magazine
Free
Ecracy
Demorest Publishing CO
Fifth Avenue, New York
The
Diller Record
Demonist’s Family Magazine
Omaha Weekly Bee
Orange Judd Farmer, and
Farmer’s Almanac
Omaha Bee
Orange Judd Farmer
She Farmer’s Alma
Omama Bee
Omaha
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