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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
4
A notice states rates for an arresting listing at five cents per line per insertion, with terms defined at six months in advance. The wording indicates a schedule for future insertions and related charges.
Opinion notes the draft strain and class bias with fathers and mothers faced with sending sons to war. Gov. Neville proclaims voluntary registration for Nebraska women over sixteen to aid relief work, with Emma Reed Davisson directing registration and over 200,000 cards mailed. The piece ties patriotism to duty and calls equal sacrifice across social classes.
The piece criticizes careless alfalfa hay stacking leading to rain spoilage. It argues stacks should be topped to shed water, avoid mouldy burnt hay, and suggests separating each cutting into distinct stacks to improve sales to mills while keeping first cut for local use. It notes scarce help complicates production.
A reader identified as J Crafts, a German-born American, argues Germans should support the United States rather than sow conflict. He praises American wages, family loyalty, and President Wilson, calls for stopping foreign papers and English-only schooling, and urges Kaiser’s removal.
F Benz of North Yakima Washington, famed as the potato King of the Pacific Northwest, leaves the pulpit after doctors advised retirement. Once a Portland preacher, he faced heavy debt, after 80 years in ministry, and produced about 1 000 tons of potatoes in 1916 selling a large share to a railroad at 40 500 a ton.
The fragment references Carl Hagenbeck Great Wallace Circus at the 1917 Nebraska State Fair during September week. It also mentions livestock, sheep production, and profit themes, with garbled lines about “More and Better” and associated figures.
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