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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
2
One year in advance six months in advance. Advertising rates made known on application. Business locals run until ordered out and charged six cents per line for each insertion. Entered at the post office at Diller Nebraska for transmission through the site as second class matter.
The Nebraska constitutional convention begins amid proposals on fundamental topics including equal suffrage, court reorganization, taxation overhaul, compulsory schooling, and forms of government. It warns citizens to engage now as two thirds of early proposals fall within constitutional scope and will affect daily life and state power.
An editorial argues the high cost of living stems from laziness and excess leisure. It warns that societies decline when people choose recreation over work, citing past civilizations and urging renewed commitment to labor.
A speaker urges readers to remain productive and frugal, warning that shiftlessness leads to poverty while steady work and saving build a meal ticket for tough days ahead.
The text argues against deporting Goldman and Berkman as foreign agitators, insisting they were foreigners not worthy of concern. It defends free thought and free speech as core American rights, warning that minorities either gain power or are discarded, while rejecting links to anarchy and asserting foreigners cannot grasp good government.
The United States Department of Agriculture biologists hunt and kill predator animals to protect livestock. Mountain lions in Wyoming and wolves in New Mexico and Texas cause extensive losses, while remaining wolves in New Mexico are being reduced despite renewed incursions from Chihuahua.
At the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States convention in St. Louis Col Victor C Vaughn warned of influenza spread via handshakes. He argued dirtier air and higher bacteria exposure increase immunity wars data show rural men died less, city-bred men more affected by filthy air.
The United States Bureau of Fisheries reports a new leather from fish skins, led by Lewis Radcliffe. nets, stations at Moorehead City, Fort Myers, and Edmunds. a Newark tannery showcases shoes bags and cases made from fish leather. Shark meat finds growing demand in northern markets as by products expand.
C F Boyer of Sunbury reports a near miss while at work on a lawn in Fort Augusta Pennsylvania. He transferred his silver watch from vest to hip pocket and the watch stopped with broken hands and a dent while a rifle bullet lay in his pocket. The dent matches the bullet and a stray shot from across the river is suspected though police dispute it as from an army rifle.
Two women share how night and day camp helps fight tuberculosis in St Louis. The article notes 150000 US deaths yearly, stresses fresh air sunlight and proper care, and cites the National Tuberculosis Association and the Red Cross Christmas Seal sale funding ongoing work.
Eight year old Margaret Bearsley of Omaha recalls guiding a stranger with a black cap and two electric light cords through her home claiming to be an electric light man. Police seek the intruder as the girl is called the burglar's pal.
A dilapidated river bottoms hermit in Dallas Texas, John May, was forcibly shaved, washed, and groomed by police after a resistive struggle. He arrived with long hair and beard, then left with a clean face and head, unrecognized by patrons the next day. He claimed the officers caused the act.
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