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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1939
Page
4
Nebraska safety patrols emphasize stopping speed over driving speed. Herman DeVries of Twin Brooks SD and Geo. R. Jeffrey of Santa Rosa CA sent in their subscriptions this week to the Record.
Misses Deloris Bernhardt Dorothy Barber and Catherine Barnett visit the Record office Tuesday afternoon and gain print ing know how. They are students at the local high school.
Mr. Pearce recalls that forty years ago some men wed for love while others wed from debt. He notes in 1939 many couples married to qualify for WPA jobs, enabling them to maintain a home amid economic strain.
A historic dictum urges a good newspaper and a Bible in every home a good school house in every district and a church in every neighborhood as chief supports of virtue morality civil liberty and religion attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Frank Sible ran an ad in the Odell Oracle announcing Mike Murray’s return to work at the local implement store and inviting residents to come meet him. The Murray family once lived northeast of town before moving to Colby, Kansas about twenty years ago.
Jo Serra argues that urbanites resemble yokels more than country folk and calls for updating dictionaries. He mocks Hollywood sophisticates dodging customs with French jewelry and notes city bumpkins outpace rural ones.
The old Dr. Pickett residence at Odell now owned by a Maryev ille Kansas party and need for an apartment house was damaged by fire and water last Saturday forenoon. The loss was estimated at $2000. The fire started in the basement near the furnace. Dr. Pickett lost his outbuildings and automobile by fire several years ago.
Reported clashes this week claim French troops killed 80 Italians on the Tunisia Libya border. Tangled violence across Asia includes Japanese forces reportedly killing over a million Chinese. No official declaration of war has been issued.
Dr Thomas M Chalmers read Psalm 72 at the Toronto Jewish Mission reading and a debate over a new state name ended with Sir Leonard Tilkey proposing Dominion of Canada from sea to sea. He showed a map highlighting land extension and prayed Christ have dominion from sea to sea.
Mercury appeared near the sky each night this week with daytime visibility varying. Forecasters see hints of improving weather conditions today.
Tales from Tit-Bits Magazine describe rats and mice acting like cunning problem solvers. They allegedly turn themselves into living lorries to carry eggs and even use their tails to retrieve drinks from bottles. Experiments claim they navigate complex mazes after electric shocks.
The phrase Hub of the Universe arises from Oliver Wendell Holmes who called Boston State House the hub of the solar system. The term mocks Boston’s self image and links to downtown geometry radiating from Beacon Hill to State Street.
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