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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
7
A fragmented poetic piece describes a transition from sorrow to a new dawn. Vague images of skies gray and winds, trees, and night give way to a bright turquoise sky and diamond-like breath. The poem hints at death and rebirth with abstract, surreal imagery.
George Armitage defies his father by arranging a secret elopement with Sidney Lee. The plan, hatched with Sidney and her future father in law as conspirators, hinges on a swift marriage at Higginsville and a sympathetic raise in pay to cover life after. The father ultimately forgives them in time.
In a Senate exchange Foraker warns against bluntly labeling all falsehoods as lies. He cites a parable of Indian drummers in a hotel reading room who boast of large earnings, while an elder observer notes small town chatter can exaggerate claims and praises tactful correction over accusation.
A collection of moral maxims in acrostic form by F. G. Moorhead drawing on Robert Louis Stevenson. It explores wealth, love, duty, courage, patience, and the ideal of a gentleman, urging personal responsibility and integrity across life, family, and society.
A Kansas City preacher recalls a tale from Walla Walla Washington about a marriage fee paid by a silent, illiterate Black groom. The groom surveys his bride, then exclaims that the cost has ruined him for life, expressing gratitude and humor in a delicate compliment.
The Wells branch station at Wanstrow between Witham and Cranmore has no signals and no signalman. A 24 yard platform with a small waiting room houses a fire grate and a platform lamp. The Witham station master oversees Wanstrow, visiting occasionally. in winter a platelayer tends the fire and lamp.
A fragmentary dialogue has a long haired passenger asking if souls retain their earthly jobs. The response notes many cases make this impossible and cites ice dealers as an example within a curious medieval style exchange.
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