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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1915
Page
4
The Warsaw area is buzzing with signs of change as ownerships shift and a public debate grows over gold and war loans. A local jostle over barrels and measurement standards warns farmers that selling dry goods in nonstandard barrels risks heavy fines and imprisonment.
A Nebraska Farmer editorial urges that horse drawn vehicles should carry visible lights at night to prevent sudden encounters with autos. It argues lights protect both buggy and automobile occupants and that proper head and tail lights are prudent, not optional.
Nebraska honors Golden Rod as its official state flower after a legislative act. The native weed grows two to three feet tall on prairies producing slender golden blooms each late summer. Once known as the bug eater state, Nebraska now touts golden harvests and a thriving, prosperous image.
A farmer’s boy Johnny Philips spots a phantom train at a river bridge once damaged and abandoned. A waterside girl, claiming to be a spirit of someone who perished there, appears in his punt and reveals the story behind a forgotten disaster as a staged picture play’s climax.
A tech- tram man was swept into the bridge water as wreckage floated downstream. Boats pulled a photo company to the scene and photographed victims in the cars and water. Johnny saved a girl from the company, who drifted away on a board as observers watched the rescue and later saw her in a published image.
The article notes Buenos Aires limits building height to street width, preventing skyscrapers from becoming popular. It recalls the city as an old settlement with Spanish architecture, one story houses dominant, and occasional six story palaces lining streets.
A unique lightship at Otter rock near Islay on Scotland’s west coast is unmanned yet reliable for months of operation. It stores gas in two steel tanks to power the lantern and bell, with the light visible eight to twelve miles. Stonehenge and prehistoric mounds are noted nearby as ancient monuments in Europe.
The New York public library uses strict measures to protect one million books from pests. A dedicated woman monitors bookworm activity, wearing a large apron and a cheesecloth veil. Books from infected areas are fumigated before return to circulation. Granite is the earth’s lowest rock and bedrock, with lime once part of various animals and possibly humans.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a shopping scene where one woman asks another what she is buying. They begin by considering refrigerators and lace curtains as part of their planning.
In Edwin Watts Chubb's Sketches of Great Painters Millet travels to Barbizon in 1849 with his wife and three children. Weather forces a path through Fontainebleau forest as Millet and his companion Jacque discover the quiet hamlet that would anchor his life for twenty seven years until his death.
Article explains that daytime naps without covering cause loss of body heat as the body relaxes and muscles and breathing slow. It urges keeping a covering handy even in warm rooms to preserve normal heat, citing the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Clermont steamboat regulations condemn abuse of order and call for strict justice under law. One rule bans lying in a berth with boots on, punishable by one dollar and a half plus an extra fifty cents for each half hour of the offense.
Lime sulphur solution is one of the most useful spray materials for fruit growers. It acts as both insecticide and fungicide, especially effective against the San Jose scale peach leaf curl and apple scab.
A list of pasture rotation ideas including rye in early spring, rape in summer, corn with rape in fall, and sequences of rye alfalfa corn rye clover oats and peas for different seasons.
The article notes that statesmen often suffer stage fright. John Stuart Mill once collapsed when required to speak publicly. The late Mgr Benson also faced serious distress when preaching in public.
Ambiguity surrounds a conversation about war art as the artist says the work seeks to express all horrors of war while a friend notes the vivid and grim impact of the depiction reported by the Boston Transcript.
An excerpt from Popular Mechanics explains submarine fins on U S navy craft. Lateral rudders exist on surface or while moving underwater in a plane. Fins fold into hull recesses and rotate via ball and socket joints to lift or sink the vessel. Porpoising is avoided in normal practice.
The introduction suggests 1194 prices for livestock and goods, noting land rent, oxen at four shillings, cows and horses at four shillings, pigs at one shilling, and ashes at two pence. It also mentions an old London fine of 409 shillings from 1185 and includes humorous schoolroom and newspaper quips about money and bluffing.
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