Clifford Sparks Visits town for Record subscription
Clifford Sparks arrived in town yesterday to handle urgent matters including paying his Record subscription.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1939
Page
4
Clifford Sparks arrived in town yesterday to handle urgent matters including paying his Record subscription.
A seven year old boy Michael Bryan survives multiple transfusions after tonsil and adenoid removal left profuse bleeding. Reports note President Roosevelt asks Congress to double US fighting force to match Germany’s air power, while local weather shifts swing through seasons and a mice problem prompts use of peanut bait in the Record office basement.
John L Emerson announced that 65 percent of six and a half million trees planted in Nebraska field shelterbelts in spring 1938 on 1 725 farms are alive after a detailed five per cent sample. Edgar Sullivan, unemployed boilermaker, saved Cal Yantz from a freight train last Friday at Fairbury by lifting him off the rails after a stumble at a sidewalk crossing.
Colonel Rupert, owner of the New York Yankees, died last week leaving an estate estimated between seventy and one hundred million dollars. Inheritance taxes are projected to take about twelve million, while the Yankee enterprise is valued at fifteen million. Speculation arises over how Rupert's death will affect the club. He was a bachelor.
The legislature defers hearings on the auto test issue to Thursday January 26 to allow constituents to file complaints. Repeal supporters urge clear input to representatives while opponents defend the current law. Voters appear strongly in favor of repealing the auto testing clause, with no broad objection to highway patrol and criticism aimed at the two year license renewal.
The business street of Diller shows better occupancy post sale. The Hartzel building stands as the only vacant structure in the block housing the Record office.
A repair shop keeps cars damaged by wrecks and upsets in progress. The Country Gentlemen notes the Consumers Cooperative Association headquarter complex at Kansas City north of the Missouri river. Diller Oil Company is a member of the cooperative with members across ten states.
The Record apologizes for errors in last week’s item on O. A Cooper managers. Henry Huttenmeyer was misidentified as superintendent. it should read John Huttenmeyer. Richard Starling was named. the correct spelling is Richard Startling. We will strive for accuracy in future coverage.
A historical report notes firearms accidents kill roughly 3,000 people each year with the majority of the weapons described as unloaded. The statistic highlights the risk posed by gun use and storage practices.
Sigmund Freud eighty two year old Jewish scientist was allowed to leave Vienna with his family and library. He plans to resume psychoanalysis of the Bible in a furnished London home rented by his son Ernst. The piece frames Freud as both reader and subject of scripture.
Lawrence Tenney Stevens carves a 60 foot elm statue plus two smaller pieces of a man and woman in South Windsor Connecticut. The trio will symbolize a great ethereal spirit and be placed in a plaza at the New York World's Fair 1939.
The article recalls the daring British speed champion Sir Henry Seagrave and cites a misread Florida anecdote about a cautious racer. his wife recalls his fearless stance and a surreal miscommunication about timing and risk.
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