Local Postage Rates and Chevy Town Sedan Update
The notice reports $1.60 postage for transmission through the mails from Diller Nebraska as second class matter. Dr Claude Ellis drives a new Master Deluxe Chevrolet Town Sedan bought Wednesday through Geer Brothers agency. Rainfall for the week ending April 20 in Jefferson county measured 0.0625 inches per the U S Weather Bureau in Lincoln.
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Diller Nebr
Claude Ellis
Geer Brothers Agency
Jefferson County
U. S. Weather Bureau
Lincoln
Gasoline Price Attraction at Diller
Advert says come to Diller to live and drive. gasolene at 13 and 14 cents per gallon with good quality. Claim promises cheaper fuel than any dime store.
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Diller
Trap league shooters set high marks in Lincoln event
Cal Waggoner hit 97 targets of 100 in the singles event of the Eastern Nebraska Trap shooting League at Lincoln Sunday. Floyd Daily of Fremont broke 99 birds in the same event. Toney Zelleng traveled to Beatrice early last week to work on the Burlington section and was laid off Saturday evening until May first or later, highlighting current railroad worker conditions.
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Cal Waggoner
Lincoln
Floyd Daily
Fremont
Toney Zelleng
Beatrice
Burlington
Denney Installed Grand Commander of Knights Templar Nebraska
Arthur J. Denney of Fairbury was installed Grand Commander of Knights Templar of Nebraska at Lincoln last Friday marking the 68th annual conclave. He succeeded to the position per the creed’s advancement custom. Otho Jennings is in love with his wife. He crafted a 9 inch butcher knife from four steel pieces with a brass heart and diamond inlay. If the symbols are affection, we seek clarification.
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Arthur J. Denney
Fairbury
Knights Templar
Nebraska
Lincoln
K.T
Otho Jennings
Weather Snapshot: Cold Start to Week with Frost
A quarter inch of rain Monday brings overcoat weather Tuesday and white frost Wednesday morning. Moderation and summer-like warmth Wednesday, with threats of rain as the Record goes to press Thursday. Garden crops keep growing despite 30 degree lows.
Farmers Union Insurance elects New Nebraska President
Carl Schmuelle named president of the Farmers Union Cooperative Insurance Co of Nebraska succeeding Morris Witzenberg of Grand Island. The company is headquartered in Omaha. Gracie Allen and George Burns headlining Golden Spike Day events in Omaha May 15 to 18 with thirty-frill-blooded Indians from Macy planning to induct Gracie into the Omaha tribe during the Indian Village show.
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Carl Schmuelle
Farmers Union Cooperative Insurance Co
Nebraska
Carl
Morris Witzenberg
Grand Island
Omaha
Mr. Witzenberg
Blue Springs
Diller Farmers Store
Gracie Allen
George Burns
Macy
Nebr
Gracie
Plymouth Couple Embarks on Gulf of Mexico Auto Trip
Clerk Romer to a acted wife with Brunk's sister and her husband from Plymouth left Fairbury last Sunday for a two week car journey to the Gulf of Mexico and planned return.
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Romer
Sccompen Brunk
Plymouth
Fairbury
Gulf of Mexico
Freese Narrowly Wins County Commissioner Race
Henry Freese edged Grover Grissom in the second district county commissioner contest by eight votes after the final mail-in count. The tight margin followed the overall election tally and final verification of ballots.
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Henry Freese
Grover Grissom
Freese
Yarn making and free talk in navy slang origins
Spinning a yarn traces to old naval practice when sailors endured ropework at anrove to make sennit and small stuff. That duty allowed talk, so yarns became syconomous for free unrestricted conversation among crews.
Notable Sea Scout Paul Siple on Byrd Expeditions
Paul Siple rose as the youngest Sea Scout on the first Byrd Antarctic expedition and serves as second in command to Rear Admiral Byrd on the third voyage. He remains the sole member of the first expedition, aside from Byrd, to participate in the third journey.
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Paul Siple
South Pole
Byrd
Strawhacker Exits Buick Pontiac Sales. Wiens Takes Over
Gail Strawhacker leaves Buick Pontiac Automobile Sales Company and J G Wiens assumes the business. Strawhacker opens a used car market at 515 F Street, the former Floyd Catlin repair shop site.
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Fairbury
Gail Strawhacker
Buick
Pontiac
J. G. Wiens
Strawhacker
Mr. Strawhacker
F Street
Floyd Catlin
Diller Ball Club Schedule and Beatrice Drive
The schedule lists games for Diller with opponents Jansen Odell Daykin and Gladstone through July 21, including Open dates. Cetenary Methodist church in Beatrice launched a fundraising drive aiming to raise 40000 by October 1 to reduce 105000 debt on the church property led by Rev Virgil E Turner of the Methodist board.
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Diller
Jansen
Odell
Daykin
Gladstone
Cetenary Methodist Church
Beatrice
Virgil E. Turner
Division of Finance
Methodist Board of Home Missions
Tenary Church
Nebraska
Turkmen Turks vs Bluejackets In Naval Baseball Tale
The United States Navy stationed at Constantinople taught Turkish sailors baseball. In a championship game the first Turk struck out while appealing to deities for eye sight, power, and skill. The bluejacket then hit a home run on the first pitch, after tossing two bats aside.
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United States Navy
Constantinople
Bluejackets
Alish
Navy
Blue Jacket
Plaza crowds caput Capitol visitors from many states
Carl Curtis notes large tour buses with state license plates gathered before the Capitol. Thousands of school children visit Washington yearly, viewing democracy in action as guides explain civics. Hotel managers depict the scene differently, with early rising students creating a lively but trying pace for chaperones and locals.
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Capitol
Washington
United States
Senate
House
Origin of Worn Plagiarism
The term plagiarius from Latin originally meant a kidnapper or abductor of a slave or child. It entered modern use to mean appropriation or copying, with Martial cited as the first to apply the sense.
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Martial
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Diller Record
L. M Cavett
Enterend Positor
Samuel Sollenberger
S. E
Dilleron
County Court House
O. H. Sollenberger
Carl Curtis
Sparks
Sparks Heirs
Norman Friabie
Roy Schultis, Auctioneer
Diller High School
Joy Tobias
Diller Opera House
Agnes Martyn
Bob
Marilee
Miss Lydia
Henry Turner
Doris
Sammie
Begonia
Nicodemus
Martyn
W. F. Horton
Eleanor Weigel
Freddie Drexler
Petty Clark Donna Lee Snyder
Doris Blacketer
Robert Duis
Jean Bond
Roger Diller Arlene Roseman
Robert Fry
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