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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1923
Page
4
Community letter praises railway workers and street traffic growth while recounting last Sunday services at the Jefferson Co Y M C A. Cecil McFarlane and Moody gave sermons and a male quartet provided music, with thanks for illness recovery and offers of support from friends.
The columns describe weekly activities across school rooms from first to high school. Primary classes craft valentine boxes and study biographies, while intermediate grades write books and explore local history. The grammar room forms a baseball team and displays a Valentine box. The high school holds a Lincoln chapel, debates, English improvement, and a junior party. Athletic notes report D H S basketball wins and upcoming games versus Reynolds and Odell Diller.
A leading dry cell battery maker introduces a steel case battery designed to endure the roughest service. The steel shell protects against moisture and the elements while the lithographed insulator shields the outer surface, ensuring full battery life.
The piece notes language decay through careless usage and misapplied words. Henry van Dyke cites examples from historians and novelists, showing words like case slogan and intrigue misused to describe worthy or neutral actions.
Scotland Yard serves the Metropolitan Police in London near Parliament. Sir Edward Henry, commissioner, leads the force funded at about 15 million dollars yearly. He originated fingerprint identification as a modern method replacing Bertillon. A mill anecdote shows workers mocking a supervisor as two fat idiots after a tense interview.
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