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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1906
Page
4
The Diller Record lists mailing details for Diller Nebraska with weekly publication in E L Loocke building. Subscription rates show one year in advance and multiple term options. business locals incur six cents per line per insertion unless canceled.
A fragmented column discusses public sentiment on Wall Street, taxation, and the whiskey trade. It mentions a New York paper urging readers to stay out of Wall Street, reflects on rail and elevator logistics, and contrasts the value of saving with earning. It concludes with a vocational note about a boy’s education and a telephony career path.
A Iowa congressman famed for prohibition receives a gifted pocketknife from a friend. The knife’s hoof stone remover hook amuses his wife, who quips about his political career and a champagne opener, a tale copied by many Iowa papers after the dinner.
Amber gathering along the Baltic coast is a harsh livelihood for Samland locals. Divers search seaweed and rocks for gum hidden in marine growth, with the largest piece on display in Berlin and pieces ranging from head‑sized to sand grains.
An extended tale from the London Standard asserts Musa, a famed conqueror, dyed his beard to appear formidable. A captain’s joke led to punishment, undermining his authority at Tours and altering Europe’s eventual destiny, with historians noting rival tribal dissensions as a factor.
The history traces the first knitting machine to William Lee who sought a patent in England in 1589 and fled to France after patent refusal. He established a Rouen factory, and his machine, unchanged, spread to the colonies during the Revolutionary War. An American improver later opened the first stocking factory in New York.
The American chameleon adapts across the southern United States with rapid color changes from brown to yellowish green. It primarily eats insects and is often kept as a pet, sometimes displayed on a chain. its toes have adhesive pads enabling it to cling to smooth vertical surfaces.
A historical note describes Yes, the Die Is Cast as a romantic history attributed to Colonel Paul Pestel of the Russian army. It claims he and others conspired against the government in 1826, was arrested, imprisoned, tried, and on July 11 1826 was hanged. During the interval he wrote the song’s words and music, scratched on his cell wall, later found after his death.
Goethe was described as the band somest man of Europe, just over six feet tall with Roman features and light hair. He retained striking looks into old age, maintaining the personal attractiveness that made him notable earlier.
A discussion from Pearson's Magazine on how sharks detect carrion without clear use of smell or sight. It notes a proposed “carrion sense” shared with the Andean condor, a mysterious instinct naturalists cannot explain, and argues the name does not illuminate the mechanism.
A Scientific American note reports ants can live many years in human terms. Two queens observed for a decade show longevity. ant pets lived into their fifteenth year. Ants survive severe injury, with headless or abdomenless individuals lasting weeks. Some ants survive drowning after eight days submerged. Ants can endure long fasts, nearly nine months in one case.
A billiard hall discussion explains how worn balls are sent to a factory to be trued or resized. Balls too small after trimming are sold by the ounce and later carved into trinkets or made into dice. Most will end up in dice forms in the years ahead.
A European astronomer proposed a thought experiment about human lineable life in space. He calculated that if living representatives were spaced by one mile, the line would reach only a third of the distance to Neptune. Even spacing London to Constantinople would reach just halfway to the nearest star.
An admirer asks how the artist discovered his ability to draw. The eminent illustrator says the marks from his school days proved his excellence. He recalls drawing a caricature of a beloved teacher on the blackboard and earning marks from the teacher’s cane.
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