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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1920
Page
2
One year six men in balance. Advertising rates made known upon application. Business locals run until ordered out and are charged 6 cents per line for each insertion. Entered at the post office at Diller Nebraska for transmission through the mails as second class matter.
The draft records show over 23 million called to service with 325 260 listed as delinquents and deserters. Government review classifies 151 354 as non willful deserters to receive clean slates. 173 911 remain willful deserters whose names will be published to attach stigma for failing to heed the call in wartime.
Officials insist prosecutions are needed to honor loyal young men who did not flinch in wartime. Some unindicted clever youths face harsher days ahead. France buys rights to a gun inventor claims to fire 180 miles, tripling range of Bertha and potentially arming rifles and machine guns.
The message pivots from work hours for a man to the impact of idleness, asking how many hours of inactivity are detrimental rather than beneficial. It frames labor as essential while warning against excessive leisure.
Brig Gen Eli K Cole at Parris Island issues order due to husky recruits swelling beyond clothing. Inspecting a departing detail found coats necks buttons sleeves strained. New arrivals will receive slightly larger uniforms to fit after training.
The common green frog shows an insatiate appetite for wasps and is undeterred by occasional stings. Its protective leaf camouflage lures insects, masking the predator’s presence and feeding behavior.
Lincoln announces a Nebraska quota of 3 731 752 55 for the Interchurch World Movement with Omaha and Lincoln areas and Lancaster and Douglas counties among top contributors. The plan calls for a united drive April 25 to May 2 with both church members and non churchgoers asked to donate to foreign missions home missions education hospitals and pensions.
The Interchurch World Movement plans to recruit over 9000 missionaries for foreign fields and secure thousands of church workers in affiliated bodies. It notes ministers and missionaries largely trained in church colleges and schools, with 90 percent educated in church-controlled institutions. Part of the fund will support denominational schools and colleges in the drive.
A popcorn grain contains tightly packed starch grains divided into many small cells. Heat converts the moisture inside each cell into steam, which bursts the walls and explodes the grain outward. The corn inside becomes a large mass of snow white starch.
A young golfer saturates conversation with tales of a match during a dinner party. He apologizes for boring his partner who responds with a playful remark about golf, ending with the question What is golf.
The Chicago Journal recalls the medieval mystery play figure Naamah, Noah’s temperamental wife. She clashes with Noah over entry to the ark, toys with the lyre bird, and declares herself blue as the sea, while the lions rile against her.
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