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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1915
Page
4
A 1915 urging readers to abandon thrift excess and spend $10 in the next two weeks to stimulate business. The notice argues fear of war and tariffs caused a low mood and niggardliness, and promotes returning to predepression buying habits to revive local commerce.
The dry movement shifts from urging to demanding and aims to secure pledges for prohibition from all three major party presidential candidates. An organized effort seeks to influence delegates at national conventions and push for anti liquor platforms to shape the White House and Congress.
A new automobile law requires annual plate changes with state furnished plates in a different color each year. License fees rise from 2.00 to 3.00 dollars, paid to the county treasurer who remits 35 cents to the state and deposits the remainder into the county road dragging fund.
The article traces the wild turkey as the ancestor of world gobblers noting its range from North to South America and its domestication by Aztecs. It cites Cortes and Coronado encounters and explains six U S varieties Bronze Narragansett Buff Slate White and Black with color and size differences.
The 1746 Culloden Moor clash pitted Charles Edward Stuart against the Duke of Cumberland after two attempts to claim the throne. The battle near Inverness ended with Stuart’s defeat. many prisoners were executed, including Lords Balmerino Kilmarnock and Lovat, whose beheading marked a grim end to the Stuart cause. Charles Edward fled to France and died in Rome in 1788.
A Youth's Companion description explains the evolution from Gatling to the Benet Mercie automatic gun, noting its light weight under forty pounds and tripod mounting. It describes the single feed strip, rapid firing, bolt cycling, and gas-operated reloading delivering about seven hundred rounds per minute.
The piece recalls Thomas Kingsford discovering starch from corn mush by accident and Thomas Bolsover creating silver plating, yielding Sheffield plate. It notes aqua regia dissolving tin to give scarlet color, and mentions Roentgen's X rays discovery as a recent accident, per New York World.
A witner tells the judge his occupation as the same old thing predicting the end of the world whenever signs point that way. The exchange appears in the Atlanta Constitution.
A Kansas City Times piece questions how a defendant was acquitted arguing insanity. It notes public doubt over the mental state and suggests the jury may have erred in its verdict.
Household advice covers rust on ranges with sandpaper, cleaning white enamel with moist whiting, repairing kid gloves by buttonhole stitching with matching thread, removing tar with citrus peel, and making whipped cream with an egg white to use less cream.
Lecturer lauds the county fair as education for farmers and a tribute to mechanical minds. He extols inventors of the sickle, binder, and cotton gin as practical, selfless heroes whose work advances civilization and multiplies human effort.
Quotations on education and farming stressing thinking over memorization. Old men have visions, young men have dreams. Farmers should plow deeply to prevent soil depletion and boost legume benefits.
Farmers rally for practical guidance as they engage with local industrial and educational leaders to address community needs and coordinate efforts. The move aims to unite farmers with business and school voices for coordinated solutions.
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