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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1924
Page
4
A caller urges residents to align with local churches for the community’s best interests and asks why not adopt a church home now. The message emphasizes church involvement as a civic good and seeks personal commitment from neighbors.
Sunday school starts at 10 with a study on biblical passages including Gen chapters and a challenge to reconcile verses. Public worship follows at 11 with sermons on A Nation's Recovery and Thought and Character. A list honors perfect and near perfect attenders led by Mrs H K Shutt and Irving Shutt.
Rev. E E Pengelly urges extra effort to attend Sunday services. He promotes The World service book and notes the Sunday school lesson The Training of a Great Leader. The evening sermon topic is Religion In The Home and plans for meetings and publicity are discussed.
Last Friday eleven juniors and a sponsor gathered at the school house for a party despite snow. The first semester closes this week and teachers exams are set for Saturday Jan 19. Sophomores held a stormy but well attended party on Friday the 4th. Ha Strain has quit school. Lawrence Newman was absent several days. Mrs. Ernest Sasse visited the 1st primary room Tuesday. The 2nd grade studies The Children’s Hour. 1st graders make a My Book booklet for seat work. Most students are back in the 2nd primary room. The 2nd primary room made dogs and clay elects for general work. Thella Madden and Richard Rand are sick. The 4th grade studied Baby Stuart for language. Second primary room to learn shape by drawing. Wayne Henrichs Melvin Schroeder Wendell Fanders Allen Tristman Gilbert Plager absent early week. Fifth grade finished Emergencies and will study What to do for Uncle Sam next semester. Nellie Frisbie taught in the Intermedi ate room Monday afternoon due to illness of the teacher. The 6th grade has new history books for the 2nd semester.
Harold Nicholson recounts Jack Kemble’s 1833 warning that Alfred Tennyson had a mathematical streak. The poet’s fixation on exactness is illustrated by his mistaken belief that railway engines ran in grooves after observing a Liverpool Manchester train in 1830.
Poem fragment reflects on dread as a false guide and how fear paralyzes effort. It contrasts timid minds with courageous ones who face life directly, freeing imagination and progress. The verse attributes the sentiments to Doda, Mead & Company.
A tall American asks the hotel proprietor if any baggage has turned up. The proprietor, wary, whispers that the man’s wife is in the coffee room.
A study notes a beech tree toothache cure practiced in early folk lore. Hair and nails were placed in a hole bored in a beech tree with rites calling on a lucky tree, avoiding cutting or burning the tree. The practice links to ancient rituals of the Flamen Dialis and beech fruit as luck symbols.
Officials report 684 pedestrians were killed and 26,822 injured in London streets last year, versus 728 deaths and 19,469 injuries on railways. Road deaths include 305 from motorcars and 65 from motor buses, while air travel shows no passenger fatalities in long runs.
Dr Eugene Wallace of Belmont Kansas is revered for lifelong service to villagers, building a school and the Belmont State Bank, aiding a blind student, and preaching at the Methodist church. He vows to spend each day relieving suffering and aiding others. He is 45 with a wife and three sons.
A small California town near San Diego preserves a quirky building once a church now used as an office. A front vestibule remains and a double door opens to a traveler friendly blend of old and new. Red paint on the garage van bears a scripture question puzzle.
Dr. Fred A. Stengel of Marion Ohio owns nine pairs of presidential glasses. The set includes Jefferson’s 1801 pair with a metal frame, Harding’s first and later shell frame, Roosevelt’s Four Eyes, and specs once worn by Cleveland McKinley Garfield Harrison Folk and Hayes, all gathered from related sources.
The Detroit News quotes researchers who say bird songs influenced great composers and that canaries and other birds emit natural, fluent melodies. Observers compare bird voices to operatic coloratura and note dozens of instances cited by students of bird life as parallels to musical passages.
Max Dick owner of the 69 73 Rivington Street tenement known as the house of babies gave $50 in gold to Mrs. Berger after her twins Samuel and Esther were born. He has not raised rents in 25 years and never ousted a tenant for nonpayment.
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