Memories And Misfortunes From A Rural Visit
Claude Cavett visited his uncle Alva Cavett in Grand Island. Mra O Willems suffered blood poisoning in one hand. George Cunningham went to Atchison Kansas for wood chopping work. Jansen cut himself Christmas night while Henry Hedick stopped a family quarrel. Mr and Mrs Chas Barber and others attended the funeral of Mrs Harry Zook who died of tuberculosis at 23, leaving two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Cavett
Grand Island
Alva Cavett
Jansen
Henry Hedick
Chas Barber
Les Barber
SJ Thompson
Frank Cole
Barnester
Harry Zook
Mrand
Wm Barber
Fairbury
Forty years ago local events in Diller area noted
The column recalls records from forty years past including Hartzell awaiting thick ice for an ice house, Alf Waggoser and J B Diller getting new telephones, Diller Co. receiving poles for extensions, travels of Blausers to Joplin, Missouri, and Charley Kelley and Chas visiting relatives. The Diller lumber yard changed owners to JT Briggs of Axtel, Kansas, with J Smith Diller previously in charge, Arch Shultz serving briefly as deputy sheriff amid Populist objections, a marriage between Samuel Heilles and Anna S Brown near New Year in Kentucky, and a wedding trip to St Joseph St Louis and Illinois. Dike Jer worked at Hieu & Dile Jer’s clothing in Fairbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diller Lumber Yard
JT Briggs
Axtel
Kan24s
J Smith Diller
Arch Shultz
Arch
Samuel Heilles A
Misa Anna S Brown
Kentury
BM Price
Isiating
St.Joseph
St. Louis
Ilinois
Dike Jer
L'Hieu & Dil- Jer
Fairbury
Fifty Years Ago Hogs Die of Cholera and Cattle Losses Reported
Notes recount fifty years past events: L Tristman loses twenty hogs from cholera, Blauser loses twenty five cattle from corn stalk disease, and a revival led by Rev Hill and Sadler at the Presbyterian church. Also details on a box car theft near Steele City, death of Peter Greenwood, 1890 pneumonia, and a harsh winter with three subzero days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hill and Sadler
Presbyterian Church
Diller
Diller Social Club
Steele City
Industrial Saar Region Powell Keg of European Politics
The Saar region a strategic industrial corridor between Germany and France has long been a flashpoint and power center in Europe. It sits astride a vital trade route, with coal and iron resources and a history of contested control from Versailles to 20th century plebiscites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saar
France
Germany
Rhine
Europe
Ruhr
Louis XIV
Napoleon
Versailles
League of Nations
Frante
Saarlias
Asace-Lorraine
Doomed Stanford Medical Student Kept Secret Health Record
Frederick J Hinds of Stanford Medical School faced fatal myelogenous leukemia, diagnosed after he studied his own blood under a microscope. He kept a personal record of his case, hoping it might aid future cures, while enduring a painful decline before dying near his twenty third birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Hinds
Stanford: University Medical
San Francisco
Loren R. Chandler
Night Driving Caution When Headlights Blind You
Advice warns drivers that glare from opposing headlights is less likely to cause a collision than drifting off the road. It urges checking shoulder conditions in advance and choosing to slow down or stop if the shoulder is narrow or unsafe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pathfinder
Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mra O ' Willems
George Cunningham
Atchieson
Kansas
Forrest “Hartzell
Alf Waggoser
J B. Diller
Diller ‘Telephone Co
GC Blauser
Cle Blauser
Joplin, Mo
Charley Kelley
Council Bluffs
Jennie. Milla
Chas
Lincoln
A L. Tristman
Hanover
Peter Greenwood
Rock Creek Precinct
I. K Godshall
Wisconsin
B & M Railroad Company
Nebraska
Wyoming
McMillen
Lanham
S. C. Hutchinson
Diller, Nebraska
Fairbury, Nebraska
Cooper’s
the Diller Cafe
Douglas
J. Monroe Davis
Odell
General Hospital
C. E. Rice, M. D
Odell, Nebraska
Pathfinder Polls
Iain A
Allen’s Store
Sfolger
Corfee
Morton
Armour’s Star
Jonathan
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