Diller High School News and Local Sports Report
Next week the first exams will be held at the High School with Saturday make up for Friday’s teachers. Seniors will work on the examination. junior and senior subjects to follow. Diller High School basketball fans witnessed two fast games at the city hall last Friday. The Alumni vs High School second team ended 12 to 10 in favor of the high school. The Wy more second team vs first high school team ended 25 to 17 with Will Diller, Claude Dunn, Dale Reinhart, Will Sandman, and Paul Beckwith starring. The Botany class surveys the plant kingdom and the agricultural class lags due to limited lab space.
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Jas Russel
Wymore
Diller
Diller High School
Will Diller
Claude Dunn
Dale Reinhart
Will Sandman
Paul Beckwith
Mrs Leona Barber Returns To Parents In City
Mrs Leona Barber visited relatives at Fairbury and returned yesterday to the home of her parents Mr and Mrs L P Raymond in this city.
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Leona Barber
Fairbury
Mrs Zugmeier Leaves Diller for Hubbard Home
Mrs. Zugmeier departed Diller with plans to join her husband in establishing their residence in Hubbard Iowa.
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Wm. Zugmeier
Diller
Hubbard, Ia
Boettcher Returns Home From Omaha Visit
Mrs. J. Boettcher reports a Tuesday message from Omaha noting a warm welcome and improved state of affairs after a prior concern. The brief communication expresses relief and satisfaction with the homecoming.
Menace of the Crowded Car Highlighted
The Journal of the American Medical Association warns that crowded streetcars expose riders to disease. Overheated, poorly ventilated cars enable bacteria to spread through saliva and breath, endangering workers and children despite low fare costs.
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Journal of the
American Medical Association
Borrowing Money Moral in Bank Loans
An Omaha Bee idea notes that borrowing from a bank creates a formal obligation to the bank, while loans from friends are seen as personal favors. It suggests borrowing from banks minimizes social debt and emphasizes the bank as a commercial lender.
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Omaha Bee
No Lack of Mustard in an All-But-Closed Sunday
A New York Times snippet recalls a Sunday moment when mustard was scarce in neighborhood delis but available at a corner drug store. Clerks note mustard plasters as a traditional remedy and warn pharmacists to maintain stock despite medical advances.
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New York Times
Curious Boston Signs Reflect Oddly Poetic Business Names
The Boston street scene features a shop sign reading Cole & Wood Dealershp Wood and Coal, while High street Clifton shows Milliner and Modest. A New York lawyer Doolittle briefly partnered with barrister Steele before a similar sign removal.
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Boston
Cole & Wood
Wood and Coal
Frm
High Street
Clifton
New York
Doolittle
Steele
Pree. C. Olenthas
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dutch Use Ingenious Guard Method in New Guinea
A Dutch authority in New Guinea employs an unusual non prison method to prevent convict escape without bolts or bars. The report highlights human ingenuity in enforcing confinement and security measures in colonial administration.
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New Guinea
Skeers and Tollers Tale From Argo Baut Fragment
A fragmentary passage describes skeers and tollers in shifting positions near high tides. The text notes that skeers travel in small groups and that their silence would anger embedded cookies, leading to the shellfish quitting by the next title.
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Chan
Wisdom of Woman as Inheritor of Universal Wisdom
The passage extols women as inheritors of ancient wisdom and practical sense. It contrasts women with men, noting men often become specialists and fanatics while women maintain balance. It frames wives as corrective forces guiding partners in mood, judgment, and optimism, calling women the secret health of the world.
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Chesterton
A Poor Man's Hell in the Caribbean Tropics
The piece contrasts wealth and poverty in the Caribbean with a critique of colonial social order. It argues riches flourish for the strong master class, while natives face oppression and famine rarely, and that poor white men cannot labor freely in the tropics except in Panama where artificial conditions allow work, framing the issue as caste driven.
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Caribbean Tropics
Panama
Tropics
Islands
Central America
Julius Muller
Forest Notes Highlight Yearly Reforestation Efforts
Forest service gathered 40 000 pounds of tree seed for reforestation, with about 30 000 acres reforested. It allocated over 120 100 0000 board feet of timber free to settlers and miners near national forests. German pencil manufacturers eye California for pencil wood amid regional factory talks. The sugar maple stands out as a key river resource for sap and timber.
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Forest Service
California
Cedgr
United States
Electric Rates Drop in Edinburgh and City Power Plant Boosts
Edinburgh lowers electric rates from 514 cents to 5 cents per unit while wires and seasonal rest are cited as improving conductivity. Jacksonville Florida reports 2 cents per kilowatt hour for cooking and heating, about 40 cents per person monthly, keeping the municipal plant busy and boosting expected profits.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Jacksonville
Fla
X Rays Ultraviolet Spectrum Extremes Studied By Expert
An English scientist notes X rays lie at the extreme ultraviolet end of the spectrum. Tests suggest magnet strength rises as temperature lowers. The moon’s approach to Earth is about fourteen feet per 200 years, baffling astronomers. The microscope is widely used in metals and alloys analysis across over 200 U S laboratories.
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United States
New Line of Art Portrait of a Starving Boarder
A bulky redheaded boarder vents anger at the landlady after dinner. He stomps in the yard and, delivering a booming curse, blasts the woman who kept him fed as the first who could literally feed on a plate.
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Congress of the Stars
Popular Magazine
Too Much Fer the Scot at English Cattle Show
A Scottish farmer visited a south of England cattle show and chatted with a local farmer. Neither understood the other well though the Scot heard the Englishman’s talk about cows and roosters, concluding his accent made meanings unclear.
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South of England
Unusual Claims Packaged As Short Stories
A human has half an ounce of sugar in his blood while the Navy mounts the largest range finder on the battleship Florida. An Australian patents a process to transplant living bald-on bald heads. A famed statistician asserts history records twenty nine people living between 190 and 180 years, often 130 to 140 years.
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United States
Florida
Separation Basis for Futill Couple Recalled in Talky Exchange
A fragmentary exchange recalls the Futills separation basis tied to their baby. References mention travel to Yate and Boston and a New York run, with the dialogue hinting at a postponed or altered plan. The text is incomplete but centers on domestic disagreement and movement.
Winter Baseball Sparks Federal League Supplanting Coal Store League
Multiple papers report a brewing baseball conflict this winter with the Federal league rising and the Coal Store league losing influence. Rumors of further baseball wars persist, while jokes about Honus Wagner in glasses and a dig at George Washington’s Revolution expenses surface in editorial quips.
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Federal League
Coal Store
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Record- Herald
Honus Wagner
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Simple charm in a Western romance exchange
A Seattle dinner quote narrates Bishop Blougrem praising the American girl and a brief, playful exchange about marriage vows. The dialogue touches on stereotypes and expectations in a lightly comic Western setting.
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Bishop Blougrem
Seattle
Far West
Individualism and the landscape’s changing tone
A Brooklyn Eagle verse reflects on individualism and how people shape the appearance of their surroundings. It contrasts sunward sunflowers with mustard greens and notes that smartness and pain influence perception. Each person makes the landscape their own.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Vague banter hints Archie Aliscadds to wed Virgie Skeemer
A playful exchange from the Chicago Tribune notes Archie Aliscadds appears set to marry Virgie Skeemer. The vivacious blond questions the match while a brunette asks for signs of his commitment as the groom-to-be shows a resigned look.
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Archie Aliscadds
Virgie Skeemer
Bub
Chicago Tribune
Scribe Dissent Echoes Across Papers
A collection of remarks from Denver Republican Telegram and Yonkers Statesman shows critics debating plays and local antics. The notes mention aggressive campaigns by kickers in town and the competitive climate among newspapers.
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Yonkers Statesman
Ad vice to Young Mothers inspires classroom sting
A Philadelphia Record item recounts a teacher guiding a boy toward a library book on moths. The boy replies that the title was unhelpful, quipping the book was named Ad vice to Young Mothers, highlighting a punny misdirection in a student’s remark.
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Bobby
Philadelphia Record
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