Diller Record Highlights 1906 Front-Page Vignettes
The paper notes scarce coal on the Rosebud reservation with prices reaching $18 to $20 a ton. It observes the Platte River rising beyond thirty-year levels and farmers moving to higher ground near Grand Island. Commentary touches Panama Canal prospects, wealth concentration, cost of living, and lingering political figures while listing odd items and a humorous wedding notice.
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Rosebud Reservation
Platte River
Grand Island
Are There Others? A Christmas Dilemma Poem
A short verse reflects Christmas anxiety with a dead broke narrator faced with gifts and food. The speaker imagines Santa, crying children, a mother’s disappointment, and the need to pawn a watch to cover expenses.
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Santa Claus
Buchanan the Scot Genius praised by Johnson
The London Express recounts Boswell style dialogue noting George Buchanan as a premier sixteenth century Latin scholar. Johnson calls Buchanan uniquely Scottish in genius while recounting his life from Livy studies with Mary Queen of Scots to tutoring James VI and his later exile and poverty.
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Scotland
Boswell
Johnson
George Buchanan
Buchanan
Mary
James
Bordeaux
Montaigne
London Express
Christmas Cakes and Sled Gift Idea for Holidays
Little cakes baked in muffin pans with white icing are decorated with chocolate faces to show crying or laughing expressions. A two inch larger tissue circle forms a paper cap when the thread is pulled. For a Christmas night party, gifts arrive on a sled drawn by two helpers wearing Santa Claus attire, with sled place cards decorated in mudlage and diamond dust.
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Pittsburg Press
Santa Claus
Santa Clus
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