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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
4
Published weekly in Diller Nebraska from E L Loock building offices. Subscription terms one year six months and three months in advance. Paper mailed until order to discontinue with arrears paid. Advertising rates available on application. Local ads charged at six cents per line per insertion.
Lincoln hosts the new legislative convening as talks begin Monday. A large water shipment from the Jordan River moves toward the nation, while Treasury officials note ample currency reserves. Controversy swirls over Rockefeller’s rumored earnings per clock tick amid nationwide wage hikes.
Beatrice Express notes an editorial stance criticizing Senator Foraker for attacking the President over the Brownsville affair. The piece argues his Senate comments serve the negro vote, not conviction, and contrasts renter versus homeowner interests, predicting social change and critiques of telephone party line chatter.
The excerpt instructs precise word choice distinguishing abolishment versus abolition recipe versus receipt astonished versus surprised and clarifies singular versus collective noun usage to improve clarity in writing. It cites a St. Louis Post Dispatch quotation about Johnny stealing jam.
Charlies O'Conor recalls an after dinner speech in Philadelphia. He admits dread of such speeches and jokes about Daniel sighing relief as the diners near dessert, hoping someone else will deliver the after dinner remarks.
The empire silhouette leads fashion with surplice and shirtwaists gaining favor. Lace coats in empire, sack or pony styles appear over light silk slips. Tea gowns are returning, trims dominate with passementeries and jeweled bands, jet adornment rises. Negligee styles like kimono and dressing gowns advance, Japanes designs show a sharp leap ahead.
Professor Kennedy of the Iowa Experiment Station advises farmers to withhold heavy grain before farrowing and use easily digested feeds like slops to keep the digestive system cool. A small amount of epsom salts aids cooling and milk fever prevention. after farrowing, the sow receives a light mash and gradually increases to a stronger ration with ground corn and oats.
A method from the Chicago Inter Ocean explains making a kerosene emulsion to treat hog lice. Mix hard soap water and kerosene then vigorously churn to form an emulsion, dilute with warm water, apply while cool, and scrub thoroughly. Dipping recommended for many hogs. spraying preferred if possible.
The passage discusses feeding and housing horses, advising oats as a nutritious feed and cautioning against whipping frightened horses. It recommends nine by five stall dimensions, ground feeding, avoiding high mangers, and allowing room to exercise. It warns against excessive oil and grease use as wasteful for horseflesh.
TheCor. Farmers Advocate notes that pigs grow best when always fed their fill and kept in good, stormproof housing. They thrive year round, and pigs farrowed late in fall or winter can be ready for market by the following fall, yielding strong prices.
Dairy pointers warn against mixing milk at different temperatures and over churning butter. It notes cows that give milk need about twice as much water as nonproducing cows and emphasizes cleanliness proper feeding and careful attention as key dairy requisites. It mentions the season to weed out certain practices.
The advice urges tracking every cow you own including milk yield birth dates and calves. Keeping a detailed ledger helps manage health, breeding, and profitability.
In eight hour trials milk in jars with various flavoring substances absorbed flavors to the bottom layer. A pipette drew samples without disturbance, and in all fifteen trials the milk showed penetration of the flavors to the lowest stratum.
The Nebraska Independent notes hen manure is highly valuable for fertilizing, worth saving this winter. Even small amounts help. if the poultry house floor is earth, remove the litter and spread it on the garden for a more productive spring.
Farmers note that trees planted twenty to twenty five feet apart yield more than closer spacing. Shade reduces ground exposure, lowering damage from heat and drought and preserving humus and moisture in the soil.
The Newark Advertiser argues municipal control of street railways and utilities could create a political army of city employees, risking absolute power akin to a czar. It cites Philadelphia’s 25 000 workers and warns losses could topple grafters only by popular uprising, per Long Branch Record.
A Yonkers Statesman humor piece finds a cash boy recounting his father’s dream of municipal ownership funded by bonds. The boy recalls a mock dialogue about paying bonds with more bonds and tax avoidance, ending with a sharp jab at the father’s impractical finance.
The article profiles Tommy Burns a clever heavy middleweight fighter who will fight Philadelphia Jack O Brien again. He excels as a football and lacrosse player and has won lacrosse laurels. He plans to play lacrosse on the Pacific coast this winter to stay in ring shape.
James Gordon Bennett provides a $1000 cup to the Motor Boat Club of America for a New York to Bermuda race starting June 8 on the Hudson and finishing off the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club in Hamilton. The donor imposed no restrictions beyond promoting seaworthy boat building and racing.
A boat club governs the Marblehead race with entries limited to internal combustion boats. Eben Stevens, builder of Sis the prior year's winner, has donated a 250 cap for the event while the club accepts custody of the trophy.
Coach Warner argues for adding a twelfth player to the football team. He claims eleven under new rules complicates plays and that twelve would balance offenses and defenses. He demonstrated with diagrams showing offense plunges and defensive fakes, asserting the extra man would create a fairer game.
Illinois sportsmen find consolation in a poor duck season by shooting many quail. The bobwhites are far more numerous than usual, especially in southern Illinois where they are described as myriads. State Game Commissioner Wheeler said no more quail will be sent to southern Illinois for propagation, with future shipments directed to central and northern Illinois, which will receive the bulk.
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