Diller News Briefs Include Tax Help and Local Changes
A deputy IRS collector will visit next week to assist with income tax reports. February 18 notes Charl Barber improving after illness, awaiting doctors. Diller Telephone Company replaces old vehicle with a red V-8 pickup delivered Tuesday. A six day work week union aims to end Sunday funerals in the San Luis Valley. The union includes ministers undertakers musicians sextons and grave diggers.
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Internal Revenue
Diller Telephone Company
San Luis Valley
California
Union
Dust Storm Strikes Home From Gustbow Route
Residents awoke Monday to a night dust storm depositing a yellow sand coating across the region. Local coverage mentions a Gustbow path in south-western Kansas and the Texas panhandle, while newspapers suggest Sidney Nebraska as the dust source.
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Folke
Kansas
Texas Panhandle
Sidney
Nebraska
Legislature Proposes Milford Home Move to Grand Island
A bill would transfer residents of the Milford Soldiers Home to Grand Island and convert Milford into a facility for senile insane to relieve congestion in the 30 hospitals. The Grand Island capacity would be 500.
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Milford
Grand Island
Botd
Child marriage debate spurs teen perspectives in Tennessee
A harsh debate follows a nine year old’s marriage case as observers note multiple underage pregnancies. A thirteen year old mother commented that the girl is too young, reflecting broader concerns about child marriage and consent.
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Tennessee
Jefferson Precinct Wolf Hunt Yields Two Kills
Report from Jefferson Precinct notes a small wolf harvest after a Sunday hunt. Hunters say wolves are numerous and sly, slipping away despite effort. Coyotes were sold for 675 dollars each with proceeds donated to the Red Cross.
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Jefferson Precinct
Red Cross
They Hurried Back To Egypt
A California reader recalls harsh Nebraska winter memories and frost damage to crops, noting citrus fires, oil flow, and rising fruit prices. The letter expresses sympathy for orchardists and asks about the friend Charlie, ending with warm regards from M. Callander.
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Egypt
East
Nebraska
Charlie
M. Callander
Women Drivers Face Icy Road Woes Near Boulder Dam
Report notes several female drivers skidded on icy pavement last week with minor to moderate incidents. One veered into a ditch but recovered, another clipped fence posts, and a Buick carrying guests narrowly avoided a rollover near Boulder Dam. A man named John Bures and Will Amos also encountered crashes with rib soreness.
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Boulder Dam
Fairbury
Bonham Theatre
John Bures
Will Amos
Dry victory in San Angelo boosts temperance drive
Temperance forces celebrate a first 1937 dry victory in San Angelo Texas as 25 000 residents reaffirm opposition to liquor stores. In Alabama church and dry groups plan a crusade after lawmakers approved a March 10 special repeal election and a state liquor control system for counties voting for repeal.
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San Angelo
Texas
Alabama
Graves
Local job offers steady work for country business helper
Reliable local man wanted to assist manager in country business operations. Starting pay is 75 dollars a month. Write Box 2054, care of this paper.
Miss Liberty Becomes Official Seal For 1939 World’s Fair
New York special reports that an artist’s impression of Miss Liberty graces the official seal of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. The statue’s image decorates mail stickers and numerous decorations, inviting the world to the event and to American homes.
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New ‘York
Liberty
New York Harbor
Ewest
New York
Medieval gilds and archers fete Wise at border town
Wise, a quiet border city near Belgium and Holland, hosts biannual medieval fetes by the Gild of the Arquebusiers and the Gild of the Free Arquebusiers. Archery contests in Bruges persist year round with the Archers' Company of San Se. About 50 archers in white jackets shoot from a tower bandstand at a clay pigeon target, sometimes failing in windy weather.
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Belgium
Holland
Boston Globe
Bruges
Archers’ Company of
San Se
Flanders
Charles II of England
Duke of
Choncester
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