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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1915
Page
4
An assortment of short notes and quotations from a 1915 Nebraska issue. Items include a notice about post office advertising rates, Gen. Carranza defiance remark, commentary on Przemysl and Przasnysz, reflections on summer resorters, a boomerang hat joke, and data on US population, workers’ savings, and building and loan associations with member counts and assets.
In a final hour of calm or storm the voyage may end suddenly upon unseen rocks or distant breakers. The text muses that every life, rich in love and joy, ends as a deep tragedy woven with mystery and death.
The rise in farm prices brings joy to farmers yet grief to the poor who struggle with higher flour costs. The European war aids only a few while many in Europe and America suffer from factory closings and unemployment, deepening hardship across the nation.
The U S Geological Survey estimates Rock Springs Wyoming coal within 3000 feet of surface and 24 feet thick exceeds 142 billion tons. Fossil palms figs and magnolias found in beds show climate once mild like Florida, indicating swamps preserved desert-turned hills.
A Lima Ohio author argues permanent road construction raises farm earnings and education. He cites Tennessee examples where improved roads boosted cotton loads from 1 bale to 12 and cut wheat delivery costs from 15 to 4 cents per bushel, noting national losses from bad roads amounting to 250 million dollars yearly.
The national committee on prisons and prison labor and Columbia University joint the study of convict road work in the southern states. James Wilmot leads the southern study to assess labor cost and control systems and to recommend improvements for efficient convict road construction.
A British colony tale recalls Captain Ian MacDermott of a Scottish regiment killed in action only to be found alive and reunited with his widow years later aboard a sea voyage. The incident highlights war’s mistaken deaths and the persistence of romance amid global conflict.
The report compares literacy among urban and rural white populations, noting 0.9 percent illiteracy urban and 6 percent higher rural illiteracy. It cites 400 percent and 140 percent comparisons for the South Atlantic and New England regions, limited to native whites. Bad roads are blamed for rural educational and social disruption.
Superintendent Jones reports highway improvement includes weed removal along public roads in Wayne Indiana. County jail prisoners are used for this work, transported by a county automobile truck. Citizens initially doubted the program, but officials say prisoners mainly object to being idle at the jail.
A native notes time by daily events, reporting her sister’s illness at about 5 o'clock in the morning as “a little while before the guinea fowl talked.” The passage highlights scarce clocks and timekeeping by routine happenings.
A brief dialogue frames marital strain as a husband notes his wife threatens to leave and the reply consoles that such threats often do not lead to action. The exchange captures a moment of domestic worry and temporary reassurance.
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