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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1903
Page
6
A fragmentary reminiscence, attributed to Alfred J. Waterhouse in the New York Times, recalls a dusty attic room. Buttered by sunlight or gloom, the space holds memories of a mother and child among cobwebs and faded festoons. Old faces greet the visitor in shadows, marking a lingering, unforgotten scene.
In a remote station cottage Mary and Will Haynes, a station master and his wife, face loneliness and hardship after adopting a found baby. A tense evening gives way to tenderness as they name the child Pressie, plan a safe home, and envision a new life together despite poverty and isolation.
A New York News report quotes an observant man praising yawning as the simplest cure for hiccoughs. He notes water and other remedies fail often, while a long, voluntary yawn can relieve diaphragm contraction and reopen the glottis, though results vary.
In a 1980s larceny trial under Judge F. Whitman, a State attorney failed to rattle a defense witness. When asked if he drove a cab, the man replied he drives the horses hitched to the cab, drawing laughter from the courtroom and a caution from the judge to avoid technical points.
The Bass Rock, claimed to be the future base for British northern lighthouses, has a long history as a seabird roost and hermitage. It appears as St Balthere’s hermitage and later served Covenanter use, with Blackadder dying in the cell. In 1671 a fortress was built, and on June 16 1601 Jacobite forces reportedly shut the fort gates against the garrison.
Fragmentary OCR reads unclear about a Pie-Eating Platocrat and a seance dated with odd phrasing. No verifiable names or places are readable to identify a complete item or event.
A home made musical instrument called the crystal flute uses bottles as sounding chambers. Stringing bottles in a row on pasteboard with coarse cotton, starting from the deepest tone and ascending, creates a playable, improvised instrument.
Ronald and Tom test a memory trick from Youth's Companion by assigning twenty six mountains to letters A through Z. They recite and arrange Bremont Peak to Mount Hood to fix the alphabet, learning order and count while making a playful home made instrument chorus.
Ronald struggles to recall the twenty six highest U S mountains in a geography review. His brother offers help as Ronald frets over correct names like Mount Whitney Uncompahgre Gray's Peak Shasta Ranier Pike's Peak and Yale Princeton. The scene ends with uncertainty and a brotherly pledge to assist.
In a Mexican War anecdote General Winfield Scott, using a private secretary, drafted an order to transfer provisions and misspelled wagon as waggon. The secretary questioned the spelling, and Scott replied with bold confidence that he acted under the authority of the Major General commanding the Armies of the United States.
A New York World description shows a magic coin illusion using a waxed dime hidden in a folded handkerchief. Performers press the coin to the fabric, fold corners to trap it, then reveal the coin has vanished from sight.
A cryptic instruction asks to place a piece labeled A crosswise so its head touches the Se rae Saree points up. The description then references a third mensch lp baht matthews, unclear in context and likely a formatting note from the old page.
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