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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1912
Page
4
Local advertising notices from Diller Nebraska indicate second class mail transmission and rates set at five cents per line per insertion for business locals and other notices.
A Nebraskan elder recalls 1856 November snow three feet deep across the east half of the territory and blocked schools until oxen cleared roads. He laments modern cold, praises pioneers for building a grand commonwealth, and forecasts future harvests amid a world in tension.
A fragment describes a poor man attempting to start a fire in a cast iron range using kindling coal oil and matches. He struggles with the cold morning as flames flicker and die, leaving the scene to end with a reference to reading the morning paper.
Transfers filed in the Fairbury clerk’s office show Charles B. Ash and wife to Albert Q. Boggs and Lew E. Webster WD and WI lot transfers in Shea blocks totaling $1. Prairie Home Association transfers to P. B. Miller WD lots 1 2 block 52 P H Cem for $10. Carl E Frnz Franzen to Alonzo Specht WD lots 1 2 3 block 3 Shea for $1100. Specht to Chester Sparks WD lots 1 2 3 block 3 Shea for $1100. Thos P Price to Anna Nelson WD block 14 Diller for $300. Mary Miller to P B Miller WD and E 50 ft lots 13 14 block 10 Diller for $1. James H Emerson to Carrie Green WD tax lot 35 75x515 in SEXNE 26-24 for $500.
A conservation notice explains the dangers of planting non germinating corn kernels. It details that one dead ear yields no crop and a five dollar loss, while twelve good ears can plant an acre and a one ear loss reduces a twelfth of the crop. Nebraska tests show many kernels fail to germinate at fifty percent.
The fragment hints at a playful dialogue about safety and affection between a maiden and a cat or animal figure. A blushing servant tone suggests flirtatious mischief within a dated social vignette.
The article urges young men to open bank accounts and deposit wages regularly to build savings and appear prosperous. It also notes King George VI’s coronation on India soil and the planned capital move to Delhi with a $25 million cost, plus a obituary on Isaac C. Johnson, inventor of Portland cement, who died at 101. The cement note highlights its wide use and declining price from seven dollars to eighty cents per barrel.
The dispatch notes a bird reserve on the abandoned Fort Niobrara military reservation in Nebraska to protect native birds. Dr. R H Wolcott says the land will be closed to hunters and used as a breeding area for prairie chickens and other species, boosting safe propagation.
A business owner hung Do It Now signs to spur energy but the plan backfired as the cashier fled with 30000, the head bookkeeper eloped with the private secretary, three clerks asked for raises, and an office boy became a highwayman.
A 1784 1788 venture in East Tennessee where North Carolina ceded the territory to the national government. Franklin formed a separate government led by Governor Sevier while Colonel Tipton opposed, ending with North Carolina resuming control and Franklin disappearing.
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