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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1899
Page
8
Jefferson County newspaper notes visits of Carmony to Ditler schools and Ragan to Utica. Reports 104 pound watermelon, lumber shipments, embalming lectures in Grand Island, and travel notes from Lillie Osborn and Mrs Manning. Local ads mention Lincoln Laundry, Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets, and Dr Sloss eye services with free tests.
Real estate sellers and loan applicants urged to secure a bonded abstract of J. Monroe Davis from Bonded Abstract over First National Bank in Fairbury Nebraska for smoother processing and approval.
An advertisement claims Foley's Honey and Tar prevents pneumonia and other illnesses with immediate use. A local newspaper notes a new telephone company forming, with poles arriving, an exchange to be housed over the post office, and Guy Tinkham set to run the lines. About 125 subscribers are on file, most as stockholders, suggesting strong support from city and county residents.
W S Fields moved into Mrs Manning’s residence this week. Campbell Bros Circus has gone into winter quarters at Fairbury. J A Ramsey, once in this vicinity, now in Beatrice, greeted old acquaintances here yesterday. White’s Cream Vermifuge is advertised as a valuable worm-clearing remedy priced at 25 pts by J W Sutton.
An old advertisement highlights Cole's Air Tight Heaters burning coal wood cobs or trash with perfect satisfaction from J O Blauser in Brooklyn Michigan. It also endorses DeWitt's Little Early Risers laxative pills by J W Suiton noting years of use for constipation biliousness and liver and bowel troubles.
J B Zook came back Wednesday from selling a car load of hogs at St Joe. He tried to buy a second car load of apples on the return trip but could not find them at reasonable prices.
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson D. cured himself after 18 months of pain and doctors said death without surgery. He used five boxes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, advertised as the surest pile cure and best salve, costing 25 cents a box, sold by J. W. Sutton.
The largest public sale of the season will feature horses cattle 185 Poland China hogs 160 tons of prairie hay and a jet of farm implements. The event takes place at the Sloss ranch one mile south of Harbine four miles north and two west of Diller on Tuesday October 24.
A Lima resident testifies to Foley's kidney cure relieving back pain and hip pain. He praises its tonic effect and energy boost, calling it honest and reliable for kidney diseases and endorsing a fair trial.
A Sunday gale shattered barns windmills and granaries across the area. Mills and towers were blown distances by the south wind damaging crops livestock and outbuildings. Trustman and Price insured their losses as rain followed without benefiting the wheat and oats.
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