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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
4
The Diller Record in Diller Nebraska outlines subscription prices and mailing practices. It also includes an editorial criticizing town critics, listing eight types of "town killers" undermining progress and public spirited efforts.
A stream of disparate items covers politics, agriculture, health rules, and rural mail plans. It mentions Ireland's potato crop, German aid to Ireland, U S population growth under Roosevelt, a Nebraska medical exam rule, a state health board resolution, and a quirky tip about flax seeds in potato patches.
The article notes Alaska as twice Texas in area plus California, with a small resident white population around 30,000 and seasonal increases of 10 000 to 20 000. It highlights wealth in furs fish and minerals, and lists substantial output since annexation including $9,000,000 in gold in 1904, $16,000,000 in 1905, and an estimated $26,000,000 in 1906.
Under the state hood bill the Osage Indians, about 1,800 people, will take their allotment in severalty. The government will distribute funds it has held and pay interest for decades. They own 1.5 million acres of rich land including oil and minerals. each Osage will receive about $5,000 and 800 acres, with concerns that sharks may later control the money and land.
The piece details arranged Turkish marriage customs with mothers selecting brides, ring exchanges by messenger, and betrothal rites. It notes imam assent, separate gatherings, and a silent bride for a month under Moslem law, contrasting past restraint with limited modern speech.
The article describes a circle game where a leader lists traveling items and each child adds one more item in the correct order. A mistake or forgotten item eliminates a player and the last remaining child starts a new round, greeted with joy or sympathy.
The piece explores why dogs howl at music, suggesting dogs have acute hearing and music may irritate their nerves. It compares dog howling to a child crying from pain and likens musical sounds to harsh scraping that unsettles the dog, concluding the howl signals nervous unease.
A method weighs a small ice piece with lead to submerge it in a test tube of water. By tilting the tube and applying flame above the ice, the water boils while the ice remains at the bottom. Without weight the ice melts as warm water rises.
A scientist posits the eye acts as a motionless camera with self renewing plates. Reading involves shifting positions to take impressions. The idea suggests experiments to determine optimal print line length to reduce eye fatigue, noting very long or short lines tire the eye.
The smallest sheep, the Breton, is noted for tiny size and low wool, making it uneconomical to raise. It captures affection as a house pet and shows sympathy to its human companions, even as a hungry man could eat nearly a whole sheep in one meal.
The essay explains tan shoes rose in fashion for practical reasons. Light colors reflect sun rays, keeping feet cooler than dark shoes, while polished shoes stay neat and pleasant looking compared with dusty unpolished ones.
A short naturalist note describes ants nests as heaps of fine needles and leaf bits. On sunny days long columns march home with twigs to build their walls. Sometimes they carry leaves larger than themselves away from the colony.
The Birmingham plant operates as the world’s largest pin factory producing 87,000,600 pins each working day.
A narrator confesses fondness for tales of giants witches and dragons yet laments the many dark places to pass on the way to bed. The verse blends affection for fantasy with a child’s fear of nighttime passages and shadows.
The Burlington Bulletin promotes summer travel deals with low round trip fares to Chicago Minneapolis St Paul Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo for Pike's Peak Celebration and Missouri River departures. Homeseekers’ Excursions offer free land information and help locating Kinkaid lands. Ask a Burlington agent for details and routes.
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