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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1903
Page
3
The poem Alludes to the sea voyage theme with lines about the cold beach, a white funnel band, and a crew heading toward the horizon past breakers. It evokes homesickness for wives and sweethearts as well as warnings from comrades and the Mother Carey seabird. Walter Riddall in New York Tribune.
A secret service agent recounts tracking a mail fraud suspect to a Missouri town. He infiltrates a mayor's home, checks rooms and attic, and uncovers a concealed space revealing the suspect and family members sleeping, while the mayor and wife deny knowledge.
In a North Carolina revival an African American minister misquotes a Bible verse. A congregant whispers and the minister humorously retreats, then claims the text is from Timothy as a joke about misremembered scripture. The scene ends with a pardon and a quip about Clover.
The piece lists ten editor duties and cautions. It warns against personal style domination, overzealous revising, and misrepresenting others work, urging respect for original authors, proper revision, and honesty in manuscript handling. It humorously echoes biblical phrasing to advocate ethical editing.
Poetic fragment describes sea as a living minstrel with major and minor chords. It likens the sea to motion and music, speaking of vast unrest, moonlit melodies, and sweeping wings conveying unseen sorrow and awe.
An actress cites a simple midday rest as key to balancing live hours and late suppers with digestion and good complexion. She swears by a two hour daily siesta after lunch, with full bed rest on matinee days and travel nights.
The Tecklenborg shipyard at Bremerhaven completed what may be the world’s largest sailing ship, the five masted steel Preussen. At 440 feet long with a 50 foot beam and 8,000 ton carrying capacity, she recently set out on her maiden voyage to the west coast of South America.
A devotional poem speaks of entering through the Lord's door to begin new life with the meek and poor. It portrays sowing seeds of joy in gardens and Meads under Mercy Peace and Purity. Memories of past suffering rise like a cloud, then a golden morn brings a calling to come and rejoice.
The New York Times reports Barney Hughes, claiming to be 100, appeared at the White House to demand a house and lot promised by the President. The scene drew attention from a Secret Service officer who warned of a potential crowd of muddled onlookers.
In a family where Bridget is the cook, an opening for a butler prompts questions on character. Madame questions the man's morals while Bridget defends him, praising his strength and suitability across a wide range.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report recounts John Daugherty, a Cincinnati gambler, who came south to reclaim money from merchants. He planned a card scam aided by a hired negro, led to arrests, fines, and a city effort to dig a well at Meridian, Louisiana, where water was finally found after months of work.
A Montana ranchman now in New York argues fiction shaped views of cowboys with revolvers. He recalls old time killers prized speed to draw, notes the arm pit holster and catlike reflexes, and cites Buffalo Bill and Billy Hamline as examples of rapid gun action.
A fragmented discussion argues boredom as a source of many supposed illnesses and advocates mental stimulation as treatment. It cites controversial views on virtue, fashion, theater, and social expectations, with assorted anecdotal remarks about physicians and a wife in Palm Beach.
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