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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1919
Page
2
Entered at the post office in Diller Nebraska for transmission through the mails as second class matter. Advertising rate is 5 cents per line per insertion.
The article notes President Wilson pressing for speed at the Versailles conference after five months since Germany's armistice terms. It questions whether Wilson’s fourteen points will be fully applied or discarded and calls for a decisive course to end the suspension and advance the peace process.
Beginning May 1 1919 a tax of one cent per ten cents of drink price applies to soft drinks ice cream sodas sundaes and similar foods at soda fountains with tea coffee and chocolate exempted. Vendors must file monthly returns and keep daily sales tallies by price level. Internal Revenue Bureau to supply return forms.
The quote notes socialists fought war declarations, war credits, sending troops, and conscription. It adds that their lone elected member to Congress will go to federal prison, predicting future attempts to win public office.
The Nebraska Press Association plans a week long tour of western Nebraska in late July or early August to replace the annual social meeting. The trip will begin in Omaha with Gering as the main objective point.
Secretary Glass expresses confidence in the next Liberty Loan and urges every citizen to help raise six billion dollars through earnest personal effort and national solidarity.
In an interview, Kaiser expresses intent to die by his own hand rather than face trial. The Anti Saloon League denies a report it will wage war on tobacco. A call for 50,000 foreign service volunteers hints at extended enlistment. Peace terms to Germany likely this month. The Day is near. Junkers who toasted it are missing.
More than 1,419,386 American officers and soldiers have been discharged from the army. The way these men fit themselves into civil life again is worthy of the way they went into the war.
The Great Western Distillery shipped 250000 gallons of alcohol in 36 cars by gold train to eastern seaports for export to Sweden. A second shipment of similar size is planned for Tuesday. Valued at 612500, the tax exempt export would otherwise be 5250000. Alcohol was packed in 55 and 110 gallon steel drums.
Belgrade in March reports thousands of destitute men and boys in the Balkans wearing American pajamas as outer garments. The American Red Cross has sent over a million suits to Serbia Montenegro and Greece as clothing shortages worsen. Women wrap in bathrobes while discarded dress suits gowns and slippers are repurposed for warmth.
The piece argues immortality is a present possession not a distant abstract. It frames Easter as practical, urging Christians to live risen with Christ by mortifying earthly sins and pursuing virtue. Kipling’s lines highlight toil and renewal as central to the lifelong process of goodness.
Guy A. Willis of Grand Rapids Michigan, a lumberman, was wounded by shell fire that killed four men and wounded thirty. He endured three weeks of bombardment, his canteen hit six times, and was finally knocked out by a shell. He spent two months in a hospital and returned on crutches.
From France, evidence of Y M C A zeal as canteen men aided troops in the St Mihiel and Argonne drives. Willis served with the 300 and 155th regiments, 89th division, in the Toul sector near Mont Lec Beaumont and drove daily to supply his canteen. He entered Benny in the St Mihiel drive three hours after German forces were expelled.
John R. Mott general secretary of the national war work council of the Y M C A is made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his service. The honor underscores his leadership in wartime YMCA activities.
A humorous note from London Tit-Bits contrasts a gardener choosing crops over poultry. It recalls how people grew fond of their chickens yet could still prefer vegetables like potatoes and onions, highlighting practical shift from fowl to garden produce.
A fragmented dialogue hints at parental opposition to a suitor while revealing confidence in a daughter’s favorable prospects. Dick, a politician, predicts a landslide victory for himself, indicating tension between personal relations and electoral ambition.
The document details a corporation with broad buying and selling authority, real estate use, and borrowing. It sets a 50 year term from Feb 7 1919 and capital stock of 50000 dollars in 6500 shares of 100 each. Nine thousand dollars paid in advance, stock non assessable and non taxable. Debt limit not to exceed two thirds of paid-in capital. Signers include Frank Pospisil J Long A Eick E S Dunn Clark McCurdy C E Da W C Line L D Calkins Wm Barton O A Hafer O J Brucksden J E Lines. Notary Frank T. Pearce. Commission expires 1924.
A note urges readers to purchase a new harness immediately, warning that harness costs are expected to climb in the spring and advising timely buying to avoid higher prices.
Articles of Incorporation for Farmers Union Co operative Store of Diller Nebraska form a cooperative association. Names of organizers attached. aims to operate a cooperative business in edge county under Nebraska law. Articles outline name and business scope as prepared by organizers and directors to select.
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