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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1898
Page
2
The text notes Ireland averages 208 rainy days annually with England around 150, Kezan near certain days, and Siberia about 60. It also mentions early Christians observing New Year as a feast day on January 1.
A short cryptic note hints at fluid dates and shifting positions as time folds on itself. The line suggests confusion over yesterday and today, implying a delay or reset in a race or schedule.
An 1895 notice advertises Allen's Foot-Ease powder to dry feet and cure chilblains with a 25 cent price and free sample offer. Also promotes Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pains at 26 cents. A testimonial from Mrs Nichols cites Piso's Cure for Consumption relieving lung trouble.
A proposed system uses trolley powered light ers to move goods alongside river vessels, avoiding swing bridges. Broad shallow lighters with electric screw propulsion would run on trolley wires along banks, unloading at docks and transporting cargo to warehouses with minimal handling and reduced noise and fumes.
Newton McCrary tracked a two mile trail to the Grand River where a huge reptile, 16 feet long and stove-pipe thick, lay slain after a buckshot head shot. The creature, resembling a python, wandered up the Grand river earlier in spring and preyed on chickens and pigs, with neighbors aiding in the afterwards successful hunt.
The Philadelphia mint churns copper cents with zinc and tin. Pennsylvania absorbed 11,000,000 and New York 9,000,000 last year. People wonder where the pins and cents go, while the government profits by turning 10 cent copper into cents worth $2 or more per pound.
The United States Patent Office issued 488 patents last week. Highlights include a unicycle from an Iowa inventor a centrifugal cream separator from another Iowa inventor and a Utica New York inventor’s baby carriage running gear that drops front wheels to keep the body horizontal on stairs. The design aims to ease stairs with a wheel mechanism shown and information available from Sues & Co. Omaha Nebraska Readings describe a ladder for ascent and descent to the pit.
The article notes that coal use for home heating is not as widespread in Europe as it is in the United States, highlighting differing fuel practices across regions.
An old advertisement claims a one hundred dollar reward for a catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo as the maker and cites endorsements from West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin as Toledo druggists. The remedy is described as an internal blood action product priced 75 cents per bottle.
A quip from the Chicago Daily News imagines Noah surviving to modern times and building another ark, joking about finding a Kentucky belle to christen it.
There were fewer railroad bankruptcies in 1897 than in the previous decade.
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