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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1931
Page
8
St Paul s Ev Lutheran announces services by Pastor J Diekhoff at 10 30 with English language Bible class and school activities. all welcome.
St John s Lutheran Lanham Kansas invites members to Sunday School at 9 30 and English worship at 10 30 with a sermon The Children of Promise. A Friday Feb 29 7 30 p m prayer meeting by Ladies Missionary group and a Wednesday Feb 25 7 30 p m Lenten English service. We welcome you. George Chapman.
W E Ladwick pastor and W A Snyder superintendent invite members to Lent services with Sunday worship at 11 am and 7 30 pm and a March 1 communion. A Bible reading during Lent and a church grounds landscaping idea are discussed. The Woman's Missionary Society meets with Mrs Cloyd Cully Friday afternoon.
Students across grades report absences due to sickness while Lincoln Birthday exercises feature stories about Lincoln and Tad. Primary rooms discuss valentine boxes, spelling honors, 3s multiplication and 7th grade wool project. High school notes include teacher's certificates in penmanship Palme method and a valentine post office event. Velma Webling returns after illness.
The article notes Diller High School plans intramural girls baseball due to limited gyn recreation for rural district girls. It mentions a recent Holmesville High School debate win 2 to 1 with judges Denny, Mrs Denny, and Mr Jenkins of Fairbury, and a forthcoming debate with Crete on February 26 at 8 PM.
A historical look at how the Morgan disappearance in 1826 sparked a fierce anti Masonic movement in America. Public sentiment surged as politicians, churches, and communities denounced Masonry, leading to persecutions, trials, and mass exodus from lodges before fading after 1845.
The piece recounts a longstanding tale of a man eating tree in Madagascar rumored to devour humans. It notes insects trapping plants exist and cites explorers and scientists who sought proof, but details remain unverified and disputed by investigators.
The USDA after more than two decades of trials has proven tung trees can be cultivated in the United States, with Florida leading. Commercial plantings yield about 1,800 pounds of tung oil per acre, trees bearing profitably in four to five years, with a 30 year life and strong resilience. Oil from Florida nuts reportedly surpasses Chinese tung oil.
The first lifeboat on record was a cobble converted by English coachbuilder Lionel Lukin in 1786 after patenting an insubmergible boat. A later model named the Original saved all aboard in 1790 at South Shields, contrasting a prior wreck in 1789 where onlookers could not help.
For more than 30 years scientists dye living trees with aniline dyes to trace sap flow. Various injection methods were tested and some efforts were made to commercialize the process. Birch, beech, and maple sapwood were primary targets, but even coloring remained uneven. Consequently the dyed material has been cut into small articles like buttons and umbrella handles.
William Lyon Phelps notes Goethe as supreme poet and author of William Meister. Carlyle translated the work over a century ago and, though largely self taught, produced a translation that remains unmatched.
The olive tree wood is praised for strength and beauty and used in Solomon’s temple for cherubs pillars and doors reflecting prosperity and peace. Olive oil’s primacy in scriptures is noted while minerals oil was known to locals.
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