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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1939
Page
7
A housemaid describes a Sunday afternoon kitchen uproar with loud arguing and banging. The mistress arrives and asks what is happening as the maid explains that she and the cook are not speaking to each other.
Collier's notes that since 1789 the chief justiceship was offered 11 times and declined six. Names such as Hamilton Henry and Cushing refused from Washington while Hay refused from Adams Conkling from Grant and Schofield from Cleveland also declined the post.
Russia invasion of Finland escalates into a wider clash as Finland fights along a 750 mile front. Allies spar over response while Italy and Japan tilt toward anti Soviet blocs and League of Nations impotence is highlighted. Roosevelt condemns arms use.
Jan Sibelius, famed Finnish composer, told reporters from his Hel singfors outskirts home that he is alive. The report references other political notes including Harold Jacobs’s new wage-hour role and Mrs. Roosevelt attending un Americanism hearings while Martin Dies pursues Communists.
A set of trivia prompts asks about the Pillars of Hercules location the relation of the cross to Islam the earth’s rotation the Bible’s word count the author of a famous child quote and the frequency of wills broken by litigation.
A collage of curiosities notes Japan’s reputed all female literary strength, medieval Christmas mistletoe stigma, and a claim on American dynastic survival with only 12 percent of baby boys having grandsons. It also recalls a Russian air train parachute drop demonstration delivering up to 2,500 infantry.
The passage describes the opposite rocks at Gibraltar facing the Mediterranean, identifies the crescent, states the earth revolves from eastward, cites the Bible as containing 173,690 words, mentions Phillips Brooks, and notes fewer than ten wills in a thousand are broken through litigation.
Quintilian warns that habits once established become harder to repair than they are to form. The concise reflection contrasts settled evil patterns with the stubborn resilience of vice, urging vigilance for early moral formation.
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