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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
8
Wavilor of Steele City visits the city. Clark Walls ships another load of cattle. A.B. Minor and Lincoln Land Co. figures appear. Local travel notes include trips to Oklahoma and Idaho. Easter dating, weather delays on potatoes, and Omaha girl anecdotes wrap the page.
John Greider opens a new barber shop in the building next to Joe Sadle’s at 12 Hartzell’s meat market. An event last Friday drew large crowds and was a social and financial success. Union Gospel Temperance meeting planned at the Methodist church on Sunday evening with collection for temperance work.
Messrs Ham Clapp RB B Thoa non and Arthur Graves from Steele City visited the city Tuesday planning to buy a draft stallion in Beatrice. The northern winter proved too severe, so they deferred the trip until better weather.
The speaker states they have taken the agency for Alfred Peets wall paper and mouldings and will conduct a house to house canvass in Diller and vicinity. They will also take orders for paints and brushes and mention about 1200 a [units] of paper to select from.
Burl Ballard and his family are staying at his father in law in Crete where he is recovering from a mild smallpox case. The father in law also has the disease but his wife and baby remain unaffected.
Real estate transfers listed for the week ending March 5 reported by J. Monroe Davis abstractor include Geo W Decker to Geo F Rittle with a 3 parcel transfer valued at 1 700. J Foals to Sam Woods. H A Jr to Adolph Arpke. and Oledraik F Gobber among others with sums around 9 400.
A journalist is asked to publish a harsh piece about a citizen. The editor questions the ethics of printing an unsigned attack, noting anonymity shields the paper from blame and public conflict. The tale explores responsibility and newsroom restraint.
A cryptic old schoolroom joke defines a teacher as a verb signaling action with paper wads. It contrasts boys and girls and implies the ma'am ages to eighteen before marriage, noting meals and routines in a brittle, archaic phrasing.
Stockton Cal Herald reports a letter promoting a home recipe claimed to prevent or cure smallpox and scarlet fever. It cites Jenner and Paris school of medicine, giving a mixture of sulphate of zinc foxglove water and warnings of 12 hour disappearance, urging use by well persons and implying reduction of pest houses.
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