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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1915
Page
4
A reflective essay argues against urban arrogance toward rural communities. It claims city visitors, lecturers, salesmen, and transient workers misjudge country people, who share the same education, tastes, and aspirations. Country life offers freedom from urban scramble, with no real basis for superiority.
The largest aircraft in Europe are Russian Sikorsky bi planes for the czar. They stand sixteen feet high, measure one hundred feet wide and weigh a ton and a half. Equipped with three engines delivering about a thousand horsepower, they carry twenty crew in a metal cabin. A landing gear of springs and pneumatic tubes allows safe landings on rough ground.
Cooper Props, a former Eaton Indiana realtor, drafted a deed to let a retiring farmer and his wife excavate a cellar at any time. They agreed after assurances, paid, and moved in, yet later confronted Props about the unusual clause. The farmers still meet him puzzled.
A New York World piece recalls eighteenth century Harvard discipline before 1750. It cites regulations banning tobacco without parental consent or physician approval, forbidding tavern visits, and punishing drunkenness with fines and confessions. Students also faced early curfews and bans on distilled spirits.
The Washington Star notes the chief justice’s proper designation is simply chief justice of the United States supreme court. Presidents often err by using longer titles, with Grover Cleveland as the first to appoint strictly to chief justice.
In London Professor William Crookes explains radium emanations arise from radium atom breakdown. He notes electrons as absolute negative electricity units and uses analogy to visualize atomic scale, stating an electron would be about one one hundredth of an inch across a 100 foot cube representing the atom.
A reflective passage honors a trusted friend who offered precious counsel and shaping guidance. The author laments not matching that generosity yet hopes to repay the favor in time by helping others as they were helped.
A brief exchange recalls a man giving a girl an opal engagement ring. The girl later marries him, making the ring unlucky in the speaker's view.
A fragmented list enumerates numerous periodicals and club numbers tied to home arts and farming titles. Items include Woman's World, Prairie Farmer, Farm Progress, Poultry Item, McCall's, Gentlewoman, and Today's patterns, with occasional free pattern notes and club numbers. The text reads like a directory of domestic magazines and club issues.
A Scribner’s essay argues too much safety dulls spirit and body, praising risk and individual valor. It contends courage is nourished by danger, warns against overprotective laws, and notes evolution toward self-preservation and excitement in sport.
The piece argues mankind overcomes natural obstacles by drilling through mountains and rivers, clearing forests, irrigating deserts, and extending infrastructure. It cites deserts in North America, Africa, Australia, and India, noting substantial reclamation and the push to transform arid lands into productive fields and cotton areas.
The article explains that Charles Dickens was christened Charles John Huffham or Hofham, but he later dropped the last two names to be known as Charles Dickens. His preferred name is noted on his Westminster Abbey tomb, cited by biographer John Forster and the Dictionary of National Biography.
A Houston Post quotation captures a speaker's claim that a husband clings to what he loves, implying a mix of affection and financial motive. The dialogue highlights marriage as a union of affection and money concerns.
A new clergyman asks residents about periodicals during a parish round. A woman replies she does not take them but notes her husband subscribes frequently and she wishes the preacher would secure signatories for a pledge.
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