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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
4
The Diller Record published weekly in Diller Nebraska lists subscription terms: one year in advance 1.00, three months 0.50, and postage details. Advertising rates set at six cents per line per insertion. office location in Loock's building upstairs.
A grab bag of trivia notes covers Masonry origins in 1717 London, Wisconsin fruit fortunes on the Snake River, presidential sermons for landlords, Yerkes telescope star counts, a richest baby in Providence, billionaires by minute income, U.S. map work since 1882, a photo enlarger scam, Manchuria geography, Wisconsin cattle tuberculosis, light travel times to stars, a 16 inch New York harbor gun with $265 powder and $600 projectile, plus a $100,000 cost gun firing 20.76 miles.
Excentric Southern evangelist Sam Jones told Elgin audiences that evolution is incorrect. He rejected the idea that humans descended from pollywogs to tadpoles to mosquitos and monkeys, and quipped that some listeners seem enough like a monkey to be called one.
A historical clipping discusses how the French map term desert was misinterpreted as a vast wasteland by English publishers English readers, shaping views of the West as desert not wilderness It cites Minnesota statehood era debates and notes how several western places share the desert name due to this origin Also included is an anecdote from Australia about timber cutters risking exposure to natives and weapons misplacement.
Edward H. Martin explains that valuable convictions arise from knowledge and deliberate thought. They form through inheritance training association long experience or sudden religious insight after preparation. Deep convictions must be earned and planted deeply to guide conduct.
The San Francisco Chronicle argues consumer demand for low prices drives adulteration. Retailers push for underpriced goods, pressuring jobbers and manufacturers to supply cheaper products. Some makers cheat, but profits may not be higher than selling pure goods.
The German Buddhist journal Der Buddhist notes a revival of Buddhism as educated Western minds study PallTal and Schopenhauer influence grows. The movement extends to the Orient with new societies schools and newspapers in Buddhist Asia, notably in Severin and India.
President Woodrow Wilson told the Pennsylvania Bar Association at Cape May that law must blend applied study with theory. He warned that reading cases alone does not make a learned lawyer and urged the legal profession to offer practical, intellectually rigorous instruction to preserve liberty and guide political reform.
The article notes pneumonia as the leading killer in major cities like Chicago and New York, with rising mortality. It compares urban and rural rates, cites 1900 national figures, and details pneumonia deaths in Chicago and New York for 1903–1904, including racial and birthplace disparities.
Fragment of a church notice listing preaching on Sundays and services including communion and prayers with disjointed words and misspelled terms. The readable items indicate morning and evening worship and midweek meeting but exact names, dates, and locations are not identifiable.
Naphtali Lodge No 206 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons meets second and fourth Tuesdays in their hall over the State Bank Visiting brethren invited E S Naomi Captain No 4 Order Eastern Star meets first and third Wednesday evenings in Masonic hall Visiting members welcomed
U W Diller Lodge 188 Ancient Order United Workmen meets second and fourth Saturdays in Masonic hall. Pleasant Lodge 96 Degrace of Honor holds second and fourth Saturdays at 2 30 in Mason Hall. WoO Diller Camp 208 W O W meets first and third Wednesdays in Masonic Hall. Visiting and good standing brethren invited.
AY Laural Camp No 938 of the Royal Neighbors of America meets the second Friday afternoon and the fourth Friday evening each month in the Masonic Hall. Nickajack Post No 245 meets the first and third Saturday of each month at 8 oclock PM in the Masonic hall, with visiting comrades welcome.
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