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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
2
The notice states 1.60 and 75 entered at the Diller Nebraska post office for second class mail transmission. Advertising rates are available on application. Business locals run until ordered out and charged 6 cents per line for each insertion.
A Lincoln Evening News editorial argues bolshevism can gain no foothold where just conditions prevail. It stresses that oppression by the few or the many harms all, urges placing justice on the throne, and notes most seek a fair chance and a square deal, while a minority may push for radical change.
Robert and Henry Mousel sold fifty blooded cattle near Cambridge for a total of 192000 dollars. The sale yielded a record average of 3845 dollars per head, with one bull fetching 21000 dollars. The brothers manage 3000 plus acres and five to six hundred head on their farm. both are Cambridge natives educated here.
Washington announces the department of justice will recommend to congress soon that most of the three to four thousand enemy aliens now interned be deported. The department also plans to seek power to bar their reentry into the United States.
On January 2, 1919, Nebraska bank deposits stood about 70 million dollars higher than January 1, 1918. The state also purchased more Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps relative to population than any other state.
The Central Powers will not join the peace talks until their negotiations reach a third stage, at which point they will be summoned to hear the verdict.
The article notes neutrals cannot sit at the peace council table yet may pass up their plates during the carving.
France insists Germany must remove fortifications along the Rhine and restrict its riverfront points of interest to scenery only, signaling tensions over postwar border and security arrangements.
A fragment notes President Wilson in a context described as sixty two and functioning as if sixty, indicating a comparison or mood rather than a formal event. The text presents a casual, opinionated line with no clear action or date.
A collection of genuine extracts from inquiry letters to the War Department from families of drafted men. The samples express hardship, concerns over pay and allotments, requests for status and marriage documents, and appeals for aid and information about sons in service.
Lieut Charles W Moore, chaplain at Great Lakes, married two sailors named Harold Higgins and Noel Lester to Edith Steele. Both couples left the office with Edith Steele becoming Mrs Higgins and the other Mrs Lester, highlighting an odd clash of names and nuptials.
Warrants issued against nearly 100 proprietors of drug stores groceries and soda fountains in East Liberty Pittsburgh charged selling liquor without a license. Officials said the near beer contained more alcohol than advertised in each item.
Cicely Hamilton discusses French attachment to home and roots, noting small owners and shopkeepers form a linked, stable class. She contrasts French immobility with emigration risk, and recalls an older woman in a torn shop reflecting hardship and quiet despair.
A British Royal Field Artillery gunner G Tully, held behind German lines for three months, is rescued by American Red Cross searchers at a base hospital. His mother in England receives word of his safe return and thanks the Red Cross for their efforts in locating him.
In a wooded area near Thran court a sanitary corps lieutenant tested water in a spring when two armed figures moved toward him. He signaled with a threat toward his pistol, and the figures raised surrendering hands. More figures emerged and surrendered as the officer continued gestures. A sergeant and five Yankee privates arrived, and the lieutenant handed over a bag of 19 German prisoners.
The document lists Portugal with a population around 5.96 million and area 35.4 thousand square miles. It names dependencies Cape Verde Guinea Principe and St Thomas Islands Angola Mozambique and possessions Macao Goa in China and India respectively with a colonial population of about 8.74 million. Lisbon is the capital.
A report from Mr. Greiner of the American Railway Commission describes Russians as patient and orderly in Petrograd. He notes lines for tram cars and bread queues, no traffic officers, and orderly conduct while buying cigarettes and milk amid shortages.
A cobalt chromium carbon steel alloy called cobalt cram offers easier hardening than tungsten high speed steel. It hardens at temperatures not exceeding 1200 C and can be air cooled. In tests cobalt cram saws cut four days before regrinding, outperforming tungsten HSS and carbon steel.
Stars and Stripes reports German military gardens in the reclaimed salient were numerous and large. The Americans estimate soldiers relied heavily on self grown food and on French forced labor in the fields. The captures include thousands of acres of gardens and late season has potential for strong pickings by mess sergeants.
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