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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1920
Page
2
A notice entered at the Diller Nebraska post office for transmission through the mails as a second class matter, listed under Foreign Advertising Representative of THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The Harvester World editor George F. Whitsett argues Americans blame others for faults but all share responsibility. He cites excess spending, lack of hard work, and nostalgia for a softer life, urging a revival of common sense, saving, and honest toil to restore value and joy.
A United States Department of Agriculture survey of 350 Nebraskan farms shows farm women average over thirteen hours daily in summer labor, sixty one percent longer than city men. Many work with livestock milking and butter making, though few toil in the fields.
The piece notes widespread layoffs in apparel and shoe sectors while advertising signals price cuts, signaling overstock. It citesmunition towns, shifting urban migration, and a steel strike fallout causing under production. It calls for a radical redistribution of workers between cities and farms to meet upcoming crop needs.
The Water Power Act is seen as a major step to conserve fuel by expanding hydroelectric development. Government controlled sites hold an estimated 54 million horsepower, with leases allowed for fifty years to protect investments. The shift to water power could reduce steam use, coal demand, and railroad burdens while attracting vast capital.
The passage warns that ongoing exploitation of natural resources has reduced supplies to a dangerous level, causing widespread concern about future availability. It highlights the urgent need for conservation and stricter management to avert further harm.
Nebraska has 149 privately owned electric light plants with 75 000 horsepower serving communities totaling about 500 000 people. Projections say electric current will reach nearly every village and farm by 1930 as progress continues.
The passage notes American contradictions as men remove shoes or push strollers and women are treated with varying respect while women seek suffrage. It critiques progress toward granting voting rights and expresses hope that blessed men will indeed grant it.
The Montrose Illinois Press compares utilities to newspapers, noting they face attacks but act as service providers with a ready smile. It likens both to footballs to be kicked around, yet helpful when something is sought, sawing wood while serving the public.
The piece argues sugar fails to sell at 12 to 18 cents due to the Wilson administration ignoring repeated advice from the Sugar Equalization Board to buy the Cuban crop at 64 cents. It accuses politicians of letting the sugar situation drift, harming housewives paying higher prices during a time of rising living costs and economic strain.
A discourse extols American abundance arguing the nation, though 6 percent of world population, produces large shares of gold, wheat, lead, silver, zinc, coal, cotton, copper, corn and cars, urging readers not to be swayed by political pessimism.
In a lighthearted mosaic, sailors joke about British and American place names and the difficulty Europeans have with American terms. The piece riffs on geography, language, and memory, with a nod to Balkans, Choctaw names, and a violinist’s ticket quip.
Fragmentary passage contrasts two mindsets: those who give and seek to uplift others versus those who hoard and pursue self-interest. The text hints at a class divide between altruistic and self-centered impulses shaping society.
A moral note cites two rules about farm life and honest purpose. The text warns against false standards and vain actions, urging sensible aims for the community. The quote attributed to m. Butcher emphasizes practical virtue over empty ritual.
In 1918 foreign vessels entering and clearing Norwegian ports exceeded national ships for the first time, due to wartime chartering of Norwegian ships by allies and wartime restrictions reducing imports and exports. Domestic registry share fell to 31.6 percent, down from 50.2 percent in 1917 and 50.7 percent in 1913.
The locomotives hauling heavy coal traffic in Virginia were the world’s strongest. Each engine with tender weighs about 900000 pounds, exceeds 100 feet in length, has 20 driving wheels, and a 176000 pound pull. Boilers and tubes numbers are noted, with details on fire box size. Shipping from Schenectady to Princeton required care as tracks varied, with engines dispatched in knocked-down form and parts ferried on three cars.
The carat, a jewelry weight unit, originated from seed counting. Seeds from India first recorded small object weights, with barley grains used in Europe and vetch seeds in the East. The term derives from the Greek word for vetch.
A humorous exchange centers on a boastful big man and a smaller speaker. The smaller man retorts that he called the other an example of cerebral ossification, denying the accusation of calling him a bonehead. The punchline rests on a playful pun about brainbone complexity.
A young man presents verses to his father. The father reads the poems with tears, exclaiming they are excellent poetry. yet fearfully notes his son will starve, highlighting a tragic clash between talent and hardship.
A single palm produced up to 4,000 dates at a hearing, illustrating extraordinary harvest numbers and the palm’s prolific output.
A sharp remark about courtroom conduct. the quote condemns delay while a rival quips that delaying justice could provoke contempt. The exchange hints at tensions in legal proceedings and public scrutiny of judges and lawyers.
A cryptic note describes a paradox involving a young boy named Fred Frew and a forward with three backward steps. It references a square meal as a metaphor for rounding. the text reads as a playful word puzzle from a classroom or puzzle page.
Dialogue exchange shows Tam planning a directing career and vowing to shout at actors, while discussing elocution studies and the misheard aim of pursuing acting. The piece highlights aspirations in theatre behind a comic misunderstanding.
For sale cleaned cane seed at $1.75 per bit by J E Long Ellis Nebraska. Residence two miles south of Ellis. Diller phone 126.44. When in doubt about eyes or glasses visit A D Acker Fairbury Nebraska, registered optometrist. tf
Public notice in Fairbury Nebraska announces a final settlement and accounting for the estate of Mary Ann Saffell. J W Fouts as administrator seeks distribution of residuary estate with a hearing set for July 9, 1920 at 9 AM in the County Court Room. Publication in the Diller Weekly for three weeks prior to hearing.
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