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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1901
Page
8
Be careful with fire during this dry spell. See the New Champion binder before buying at J. Q. s. John Lamb is giving the running gears of his pump wagon a new coat of paint. If you need a sulky plow see the X a before you buy. The young people of this vicinity enjoyed a party at A. J. Hill’s residence last night.
The item notes the Gough and Cald Laxative sales claim a one day cure and a price of 25 cents. It lists residents Gillett and children of Hollenberg Kansas visiting relatives John and Charly Gillett. Local market prices for wheat corn oats butter eggs and hogs are provided. Jacob Lottman returns from Germany with his sister's children. Harry Davis travels to Kansas City for cattle stock but returns empty, planning another trip. De Steiner travels to Odell to order smallpox quarantine for a seven-person family.
Rev Bry has moved to lead at the Presbyterian church and will preach both morning and evening each Sunday now.
Gage County Republicans set a county convention in Beatrice on August 13 with 310 delegates and primaries on August 10. The event gathers party members to select nominees and organize county support.
A youth living east of town three miles away started a fire while working in a barn forenoon. The blaze spread from his tubble ground, bursting into flames and consuming hay and surrounding ground.
Masked text touts Backlem's Arnagea Salve as removing eruptions fever sores boils and pimples and says it guarantees relief for cuts burns and piles. Ad claims 250 at Sution's.
The Stiller Telephone Co. has installed new phones for residents including A. J. Hill and W. Becle, with others named such as Sam Phillipa Sue John Lamb Enoch Adams and atterbaugh’s Tirery harn, reflecting expanded local service.
A reader notes a summer ailment common to chiliop season and reports a swift cure in their family using Chamberlains cholera and diarrhea medicine. The writer emphasizes keeping patent medicines on hand for home use.
John Weise from Harbine yesterday. Nelson sells the New Process gasoline stove. If you wish to take music lessons this summer confer with Miss Ethel Roberts, B. A., Diller, Nebr.
About sixty five residents from this county rode the Rock Island excursion from Fairbury to Oklahoma Tuesday night to register for land in the Kiowa and Comanche reservations.
J A Kelley of Henderson North Carolina recalls a familiar ordeal with dysentery and praises Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after using it as directed with satisfactory results. The testimonial notes quick relief compared to previous attacks and mentions availability through Suttin.
The American Car and Foundry Company delivers flat, ox and stock cars to Ecuador for the Guayaquil and Quito railroad. May shipments included 100 flat cars. June and July will add 75 stock cars and 175 flat or box cars. The line crosses the Andes, opening a country once mule‑traveled, with engineer General W Ferguson from Charleston guiding the project.
The piece argues that postal savings banks have been a neglected idea in hard times. It contends inflation, stock volatility, and financial distrust will spur demand for a postal banking system in the future, as crops fail and wealth erodes, leaving institutions burdened.
The New York Times reports that coal mining will resume this summer in Long Island Sound. Wrecks of abandoned coal barges and schooners line the shores from New York to Montauk Point, with submarine boats locating and buoying wrecks as proof of abandonment. A venture capitalists group plans to haul coal from these wrecks and send it to markets.
L. S. Donaldson of Minneapolis saw a near fully automatic device in St Gall Switzerland that threads needles for lace making. The machine handles a hopper feed collects a needle threads a knot cuts thread to length and deposits the threaded needle in a rack. The invention shows the shift from hand work to machine produced threading at a thousand needles per minute.
The Jefferson county papers recount Governor Stanley hunting nearby and killing seventeen squirrels. The Oskaloosa Independent recalls his youthful quail shootout when he missed every shot because friends replaced his cartridge shot with popcorn, revealing his prankish misfortune.
The Kahoka post office was broken into and robbed of about $200 worth of stamps and stationery. No clues to the robbers. a $200 reward is offered for their arrest and conviction.
Reading this fragment, authorities seek volunteers or assistance to travel for care or support. The notice mentions men and women and requests compassionate contribution to aid journeys or trips.
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