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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1914
Page
4
The article notes that the tango is a Latin word meaning touch and describes how many farm folk seek urban life to escape hard work only to discover their wits may fail them. It contrasts quickness with slow steady effort and comments on modesty in close dancing.
The piece lists seven reasons men avoid church tied to modern life. The Sunday newspaper, the automobile and tiresome sermons appear alongside the collection basket and missing collar buttons. The lure of Sunday morning naps is also cited as a distractor.
Ohio figures claim killing 103,493 rats saves 23,000 bushels of corn worth 11,000 dollars. Government stats show rats ruin food annually and contribute to high living costs. Swat the rodent.
The passage contrasts frivolous optimism with true optimism. It notes a remark about thousands of thieves as a misjudged display of wealth and argues genuine optimism acknowledges problems yet believes they can be overcome. It emphasizes active effort toward certitude in improvement.
A memory of a Swede conversation overheard by a friend and her Swedish cook and maid neighbor. The exchange plays with pronunciation and a running joke about a hoosit, a word believed to signify a mysterious contraption while mentioning cremated cellar cemetery plumbing and elastic lights.
The article argues winter is ideal for road dragging as frost and sun soften rough surfaces. It notes roads become nearly impassable after freezing and wet spells, yet with proper timing the ground can be knocked into holes, improving overall road quality during milder winter days.
A speaker argues against easy divorce, urging marriage as a serious, permanent bond for the good of society. He claims harsher divorce laws reduce immorality and contrasts crimes of deceit with murder, noting a convicted swindler who preyed on the poor.
A Nyasaland study notes natives enter a detached trance between duties, eating at dawn and noon under a tree, then returning to silence until sunset. The piece also recalls Alfred Russel Wallace’s early poverty and delayed marriage, illustrating genius slow to prosper.
Robert Thorpe, a veteran Missouri stage driver, recalls how Anderson the jayhawker recruited a tough young Missourian during a stage robbery near Glasgow. The youth boasted of his swimming ability and faced off with Anderson in a tense confrontation amid the raid.
The Washington Star notes William Dean Howells chiding a young novelist who writes strong art but weak commercial works. He cites two critics debating an author whose laurels appear faded and bedraggled due to resting on past praise.
In the Customary Place a prominent English bishop once wed his third wife. A clergyman who knew his first wife returns from Africa and asks the verger where the bishop’s wife is buried. The verger quips that the bishop “mostly buries ’em at Brompton.”
A Spur quip notes a mutual friend advising marriage if wealth exists, yet the speaker laments that the girl will not have him. The joke centers on parental approval and a million-dollar condition as the sole obstacle.
A well known medical writer proposes immediate arrest of disease upon sight, advocating strong authority to authorize swift action to curb outbreaks and protect public health despite potential risks.
A family uses two hanging maps to learn geography during meals. Children locate unfamiliar places on the world and state maps as they hear references, turning reading into a visual game. The activity links knowledge, boosts memory, and makes geography engaging for two younger kids ages eight and ten.
A man and wife on a fifth floor ledge in a Fifty-sixth Street tenement in New York leaped into a safety net as flames produced only smoke. Firemen praised the net jump technique while noting many eight to nine story jumps occur with no injuries.
The Paris stage incident follows Napoleon and Duroc visiting Porte Saint Martin to see L Homme de Destin. Disguised, they witnessed the emperor's fury as decor pots of oil and paint stained the theater. He ordered the play never to be produced again, citing the botched paint as the cause.
A child named Beatrice tells her mother she is practicing by theory during piano lessons. The mother, upstairs, calls to her about practicing, and Beatrice replies with calm self assurance that she is indeed practicing theory.
Fragmentary text outlines an item about Parliament and Congress with unclear scope. Likely a comparison or summary of British parliamentary and unitary structures. No clear events, names, dates, or outcomes are readable.
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