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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1899
Page
4
The A. O. U. W. lodge meets tomorrow evening while the K. P. lodge holds its regular convention next Thursday evening February 8. Gene Ames and sister M. Marsters left for Nampa Idaho Tuesday. The east side shop offers hair cuts for 15 cents.
B. E. Ballard departed on yesterday's noon train to Beatrice where he has secured a job with a butter and egg packing plant.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinie tablets as a guaranteed cure for a cold in one day. It claims all druggists refund money if it fails to cure and features a disclaimer about genuine L. B. Q tablet.
The Diller band resumes practice tomorrow evening with a full attendance urged due to important business on tap.
Amos Bush schedules a public sale on the 81st instant at 10:00 am. A free lunch will be served at noon. Boss Wright plans to attend. See bills for further particulars.
Public notice states Chamberlains Cough Remedy bottles are guaranteed with refunds if unsatisfied. Advertises la grippe cold and whooping cough remedy priced 25 and 50 cents per bottle by J. W. Sorrow. Also reports Gage county 1899 expense estimate down to 83 710 from 113 430 last year.
Henry Madden purchases the Sadle property on Hilton street and plans to move into town by March 1. George Knolle says he will move to Glenwood Iowa, where he intends to buy land and pursue farming.
A list of six pointed prescriptions for writing for publication stresses brevity and clarity. Authors should publish six separate pieces, use plain words and short sentences, have a clear point, and send manuscripts flat with a return stamp if possible.
In the United States 1898 was the warmest year on record. Mrs. Rev. Ransom returned yesterday from visiting her sisters at Lincoln.
L. L. Garrison of Fairbury files for bankruptcy with debts of 4879 and assets of 200. J. W. Sutton, Harry Cline, and other local items appear. Funeral for Harry Cline noted. Manila papers read by Mrs. P. B. Miller from Frank Willey serving in the First Nebraska Regiment. Community updates include travel plans, new goods shipments, and reflections on the value of the home newspaper for absent friends.
The copy warns the Grip with fever chills headache and cough and urges immediate treatment with Dr King’s New Discovery. It claims the remedy kills disease germs heals lungs and prevents later trouble with a 50 cent to 1 dollar price and a free trial at J W Sutton’s drug store.
In Wichita Kansas the giant buffalo bull kept over a year was killed by its owners. M Matthewson known as Buffalo Bill fired the fatal shot. The beast stood six feet ten inches high at the withers ten feet long and eight feet four inches in girth weighing about 2200 pounds. The skin and skeleton will be mounted for an eastern museum and the flesh sold to local butchers at a high price.
Presiding Elder Isham preached Wednesday evening as revival services carry on. The ad notes bonded abstract services by J Monroe Davis and First National Bank Fairbury to aid real estate sales and loan approvals.
Hoes who contemplate planting trees can save money by buying direct from UECKE & STILSON. They offer surplus Apple, Soft Maple, and Box Elder trees, with a complete line of nursery stock. Agents wanted. Corwith Iowa. May 1 99.
A government commissioned work by Murat Hastead, historian for the War Department, was written across army camps from San Francisco to Manila. The manuscript recounts campaigns with General Merritt, hospital scenes in Honolulu, Hong Kong, and in American trenches, with dramatic scenes aboard the Olympia.
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