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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1915
Page
3
Readers across Nebraska see notices of upcoming events and conventions. Includes Lincoln dates for annual graisers and ship societies, farmers union, labor federation, prohibition, and merchants markets with sister events in Omaha and Lincoln.
Scoitebluff reports the irrigation district votes 226 to 1 to approve a carriage contract giving the government one fifth of canal capacity. The move extends a twenty year payment plan and allows federal use of water from Path Finder storage to irrigate 26 000 acres north of Bridgeport. Bond holders and the government broadly back the decision.
Excessive rains in this region force new alfalfa use. After large cuts, prolonged rain makes hay impossible. The ensilage cutter can process very wet alfalfa, yielding high quality cattle feed and protecting hay crops. A number of localities have adopted this method.
Fremont farmers along the river report near total destruction of melon patches after a severe hailstorm. The sandy soil produced top quality melons but crops were obliterated forcing dealers to rely on imported fruit this season.
Correspondents recount remarkable stories from the front as soldiers’ strange injuries and peculiar shrapnel patterns become symbols of endurance. A Williams/Williams man bears initials on his back, a trooper’s gear survives a shell, and a 12 inch shell traverse Hartlepool streets. The piece argues soldiers’ creed is a practical compass, not mere sentiment.
The famous pianist Paderewski visited a western town and gave Miss Jones piano lessons to correct her playing after hearing her practice a Chopin nocturne. Months later he returned to find the sign updated to indicate she is a pupil of Paderewski paying one dollar per hour. The story also notes there are 50,000 post offices in Germany and that spectacles were invented in the thirteenth century.
Tecumseh resident Miss Etta Pratt suffered a unique accident when a crochet hook in her hand was driven through the flesh by a slamming screen door. A physician removed the tool, pushing it through to cut off the barbed end before extraction.
Avoca J E Reed of Syracuse unveils a scheme using a portable mesh yard with guinea pigs as inmates to clear a yard of dandelions. The experiment claims the entire yellow pest mat is removed, suggesting potential profits in raising guinea pigs.
Judge Redick in district court denies the injunction against building the Billr Sunday tabernacle in downtown Omaha. The hospital adjoining the proposed site challenged the project but faces a court ruling allowing construction to proceed.
While hitching a mowing machine a bolt of lightning struck the team of horses killing both animals and stunning C F Stuck. The team had won two prizes at the county fair.
The local farmers union arranged for O F Dornblazer of Texas national organizer for the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union to address the agriculturists of this vicinity on August 16.
Owners of sealing vessels consider new aeroplane use after seal hunt failure. Two experienced aviators would survey the east coast and Gulf of St. Lawrence before next season to locate herds, enabling fleets to sail directly to the hunt site without lengthy search.
A father explains a bank blunder to his son. The son learns written checks exceed available funds by sixty three dollars. The tale highlights misjudged finances and distrust of bank liquidity in simple terms.
Health department statisticians report milk becoming residents' favorite drink in New York. Milk consumption rose 50 percent over ten years and the daily per capita intake in Manhattan averages 63 gills.
A romantic youth declares a desire to grip the maid with steel hooks. The practical maid retorts with a terse reply questioning the weapons as inappropriate.
An analysis from World's Work estimates that to seal all forty nine British ports, Germany would need 147 submarines on station plus base passage and overhaul time, totaling 294 submarines, assuming Zeebrugge as base and four day passages. It argues operational constraints include eight to twenty day sea access between visits and six days for overhaul.
In New York J P Drexel extols the English volunteer army praising Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates fighting alongside coal miners peers sons and millionaires sons joined with plumbers and blacksmiths. He notes many nuts in the volunteer army and that the Kaiser finds them hard to crack despite shell shortages.
The passage contrasts wealthy men struggling to enter heaven with avoiding jail life. It notes that after learning they cannot beat rivals at their own game, some pursue get rich quick schemes. It cites that among over 70,000 British women registered for work, only 1,408 have secured positions.
A terse exchange notes that Italy does not employ capital punishment and comments on lighting or darkness in a metaphorical sense. The quoted lines imply a contrast between approval and restraint. No person or organization is clearly named in the readable text.
Biographer M. Gerard Harry notes Maeterlinck freed from tobacco by using a tasteless dericotinized preparation. The pipe remains lit as a device to satisfy an irresistible craving rather than stimulate thought, in a London Chronicle quote. Lower California is cited as a gold producer.
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