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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
4
A fragmentary notice from The Diller Record outlines subscription rates of one year in advance and three months, with advertising rates per line. It notes mailing to subscribers until canceled and that all arrears must be paid.
The item notes Miss Alice Roosevelt riding astride a horse in divided skirts on a Friday in December 1903. It also briefly mentions global figures and political matters including Philippine abolition of slavery provisions, the Sulu treaty, and political implications of postal scandals in U S politics.
Nebraska commission men face hard resistance from the Farmers Co-operative Society as grain marketing spreads across the state. Elevators purchased or built by coops restrict buying, with Yor county seeing no elevator open and other areas offering only small lots. Farmers, schooled by prior campaigns, view higher bids as tricks to dismantle cooperatives and restore old control.
The American Farmer reports Senator Fairbanks proposes Postmaster General study of rural telephone mail delivery. If the senate supports it, an appropriation may fund trials, promising to connect farmers with city life through enhanced mail service and electric-road progress.
Amid a second cup race three yachts attempted wireless links to shore stations. Interference and rivalry produced a jumble of messages mixing sea poetry and religious verse. Jamaica and Brooklyn yard stations relayed garbled quips about Shamrock and Lipton, prompting calls to cut lots for precedence.
A mounted Winchester, General Philip Sheridans famed Civil War horse, is displayed at the Military Service Institute on Governors Island New York. The taxidermist preserved the steed as it stood after riding in forty seven engagements, with a detailed life card by Sheridan.
A Medical Talk advises not to jump up on waking. Rise gradually to protect the heart, yawn and stretch, and wake the body slowly. Observations compare waking of humans, babies, and animals like kittens and birds to steady routines.
A London Daily Chronicle account says the Woolwich Arsenal arose after an 18th century blast at Moorfends when damp molds caused steam to explode while recasting old French guns. Swiss student Andrew Schlach warned critics but the molten metal was poured, leading to fatalities. Schlach later helped select Woolwich as the arsenal site and led it for years.
Clyde Fitch recalls an aspiring playwright gaining access to Richard Mansfield to read a script. Mansfield glanced at the manuscript for about twenty minutes and returned it with brief notes. The playwright protested that Mansfield was dismissive of his ideas, to which Mansfield quipped that an impartial judge would likely award ten.
The article from Everybody's Magazine suggests radium could transform chemistry and technology. It mentions transmutation of metals, wireless communication, new heat sources, and even weather prediction, likening radium to aurora and Rontgen rays as a unifying substance with broad implications.
A Philadelphia Press quip notes hard times during a church collection. The remark jokes that if no penny is available one must drop in a nickel or a dime, reflecting financial strain in the era.
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