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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1936
Page
2
Mrs. Kibble Comer, 89, of Sherman Texas, has read the New Testament 125 times and the Old Testament 63 in 78 years of steady reading. She began at age twelve after illness. she recalls memorizing five to six chapters weekly and half the New Testament by fifteen. She laments today's faithfulness.
Glenn Halberg a thirteen year old farm boy from Booth Bend Indiana believed despondent over being sent to bed for refusing to wash dishes hanged himself. Deputies found the body suspended from rafters in an upper story of a neighbor’s house where he had been staying during his parents’ Chicago trip. The boy had grown morose during his parents' absence.
The Ferry Mors e Seed Breeding Institute promotes seed varieties at stations in Rochester Michigan and Salinas California claiming cucumber length eight inches beets carrots with minimal cores and rust resistance. After tests for germination and purity new strains are offered for home gardens through a free Home Garden Catalog and Ferry displays in local stores. Ferry Morse Seed Co Detroit and San Francisco.
A six hundred strong Hunger Marchers group from the Unemployed Workers Alliance marched in Washington shouting for jobs and relief. They failed to meet President Roosevelt but got a 30 minute audience with Secretary McIntyre and later with Vice President Garner. David Lasser led the delegation warning of a larger hunger march next summer if relief does not come. The event included banners calling for employment insurance and opposition to promissory notes.
The passing of James M. Beck at his Washington residence due to coronary thrombosis draws mournful tributes from informed Americans. Born 1861 in Philadelphia he served as U S attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania and later assistant attorney general under McKinley and solicitor under Harding.
Hagood assumes command of the Sixth corps area with headquarters in Chicago on May 2, succeeding Maj. Gen. Frank McCoy who moves to the Second corps area in New York. Maj. Gen. Dennis E Nolan retires, and Hagood had been briefly removed for criticizing WPA methods before being restored to Roosevelt’s favor.
Former Mexican president Lutarco Elias Calles and three other prominent figures are expelled by President Cardenas. They are sent from Mexico City by plane to Brownsville Texas amid claims their presence threatens the country's welfare. The exiles include Luis Morones, Luis de Leon, and Rafael Melchor Ortega.
A collection of maxims on self discipline revenge excuses and duty. It advises strong will if one says no to self and notes superiority in passing over enemies. It warns against delaying duties and suggests spreading disagreeable tasks through the week.
A Toronto Globe anecdote quotes a hunter recalling a bear encounter where he was unarmed and unfamiliar with the terrain. The hunter notes being a stranger in the country and having left his road maps at camp. The exchange includes a humorous aside about disadvantage and preparedness.
The text opines that a cultivated sweet disposition can reveal its artificiality over time. It warns that reputation attracts curt judgments and that broader social circles demand stronger conscience and louder speech, with meditation as defense against daily distraction.
WPA workers unearthed bones 12 feet below Slauson avenue drain in Los Angeles suggesting humans in southern California during the glacial epoch about 25 000 years ago. Fragments include tusks teeth vertebra and skull near remains of an imperial elephant the largest land mammal.
Landlady trims portions as a witty exchange unfolds. A guest notes the joke that twice a half portion would suffice, highlighting light humor about meals and limits in a shared, domestic setting.
In Cheering Section Lissen I recalls an amusing dentist visit as another dentist worked on the dentist's teeth, described in Pathfinder Magazine.
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