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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1897
Page
2
Fragmented OCR text describes Sutton selling wall paper paints and oils with scattered phrases. No coherent event or clear details emerge beyond the business items and garbled notes about weather and people.
Tom and Alva Stewart enjoyed Christmas in Red Cloud amid heavy winter snow. Relatives from Eagar joined Mrs. Mary Bird and others for festive visits. A sleighing party led by Mrs. McC Wright and daughter Effie rode to the county seat amid lighthearted family cheer.
Fragmented OCR notes mention a pension board at Fairbury holding regular meetings on the first and third Saturdays. The text references Wagoner calling Saturday and mentions payments year in advance, plus scattered phrases about California and Christmas.
Blanger’s hardware store offers a line of ice skates for girls boys and adults in all sizes and prices. Call to choose before the assortment runs out.
Readable fragments report Campbell Brothers touring act featuring two trained elephants two lions one camel and a trained zebra arriving at Fairbury last week. The setup described as an American trained harness show.
The notice warns that in this year a cold easily becomes pneumonia without reliable remedies. It asserts no better cure for a cough or cold than a Cough Remedy and claims successful use of it.
Mixed notices from H C Martindale area near Wymore describe corn field progress and law study in McCandles office. Regional ads promote baggies and hosiery stock. Brief obituary mentions burial near Harbire cemetery and Fulton merchant C M Dixon amid domestic threat reports.
A funeral and wake details are incomplete, with a lay in state described for four hours. The burial occurred beside an identified figure in an unclear location.
The Prairie Home Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting in Diller at J Danders hardware on Saturday January 1 at 2 o clock. All members are urged to attend. The notice mentions lamp displays at J W Snatton’s north window and a medical tonic advertisement.
The article notes J B Zook's appointment as deputy under sheriff-elect and his plan to relocate with his family from Diller to Fairbury before spring. It mentions preparations for the move and expresses the editor’s regret at leaving Diller.
Snow melts rapidly as a Catholic fair is announced for Steel's Hall in Fairbury on December 31 and January 1. The next sane county board of periwinkle meeting is set for Beatrice on January 8, with plans for a social event and travel details mentioned.
Record cold sweep grips Nebraska with readings well below zero across multiple towns. York reports 20 below, Sutton 28 below, Weeping Water unknown, Pana 18 to 20 below, and other regions recorded similarly frigid temperatures.
Mrs McKinley sends permission for John Philip Sousa to dedicate a new composition titled The Lady of the Issue to her. The piece will appear in The Home Journal next issue. The president and Mrs McKinley are mentioned in relation to this dedication and a conservatory photograph.
The officers-elect for Nickajeck phame are listed as Post Convincibiens Alex Bell and J. W. Henrichs with Wm. Hudson as Q M. F. D. Carr is 8. M. Ira wa Chap bap JP ieee 9 alt Waggoner, Tate 0.6, Bey m. Riddle. Alternate Henry Brandt.
The readable fragment mentions health and bodily terms but lacks coherent events or identifiable people. It reads as a malformed note about disease links and medical ideas without a clear narrative or outcome.
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