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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1907
Page
2
An article discusses how some birds glide for hours in calm or storm without flapping. It notes the mystery of flight on motionless wings, suggests airships of the future may use sailing flight, and contrasts currents with predatory birds that hunt against winds. It concludes that mastering motionless wing flight could advance air travel.
The article argues against the air cell or balloon theory of bird flight noting that many flying and flightless birds possess air chambers yet differ in flight ability. It cites emu ostrich apteryx orangutan and various swift and other species to challenge the theory and calls it a persistent fallacy.
A new society in France called the Confederation of Cripples seeks repeal of laws barring beggars who are halt or lame. A Paris organizer, an accident victim with two wooden legs, travels via hand organ to attract attention. Delegates from Marseilles joined the Paris effort to start branches in French towns and aid nonworking members. they walked to Paris to present the plan.
The passage notes that northern peoples favored free and independent governance from ancient Scandinavians to Norsemen and Viking-era leaders who were chosen by their followers, with no king established by autocratic rule.
The article advocates forming a town produce company owned by merchants and farmers to pack store perishable goods, pay higher prices for butter eggs and other products, issue due bills usable in local stores, and keep earnings in the community while boosting local trade and cooperation.
An Iowa farmer argues mail order houses win rural business by advertising prices and offerings at home. He urges local merchants to publish prices in home papers to prompt customers to visit and buy locally, noting many goods are as cheap as mail order and that awareness drives orders.
Western bankers acknowledge mail order catalogs drain local commerce and deposits. They note small profits from drafts and exchange pale beside lost business as catalogue houses lure rural customers away from hometown banks. The shift hurts town progress and challenges bankers’ traditional role.
An acre near Madison Square on Fifth Avenue between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets sold for 7.25 million dollars. The old Fifth Avenue hotel will be torn down for a colossal office building. The sale marks the third such transfer in 50 years with the land's value tied to its central Manhattan location and growing population.
Prof Sellin reports over a hundred workers at five dig sites near Jericho uncover a burnt lime brick wall ten feet thick with a western forty foot width. Private houses, lamps cups needles and mortars of bronze and stone appear alongside rows of inner city houses. Hebrew lettering confirms early usage. Work to resume next winter.
The archdeacon of London spoke on the instinct of rescue recounting a recent act of kindness. He described leaving the House of Commons and discovering a pigeon run over in the road, and his reaction to the sight.
Despite being hitching post free New York shows fewer runaway horses than typical cities relative to its population.
John Talbot of Rock Knolls trains a hen to jump over his clasped hands from a height. A Byfield man keeps a cat that will eat raw green corn and strip husks in the field. Laundry stiffening costs are reduced by Defiance Starch which requires thinner application for greater strength and preserves fabric appearance and wear.
The account recounts Cipriano Castro president of Venezuela boasting he could have taken Port Arthur with 500 Venezuelans and a diplomat replying with a thousand would do it in a day. The diplomat then secured a satisfaction of a long-standing claim for his government.
In Taunton Massachusetts the local bar debated a patron saint for lawyers. A committee including Francis H. T. Maxwell toured New York galleries with marble saints and left the choice to Maxwell who pointed to the devil figure in a two saint group, claiming it would do as Saint Michael drove him.
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