Forty Years Ago In Diller Echoes Of Local Life
The Record recalls events from forty years past in Diller includes sunstroke loss of a horse at the Price farm wheat sold at 51 cents a bushel and apples 70 cents a bushel from wagons. A 113 degree shade reading at Sutton's drug store and local vegetable sales by Eugene Weigle. Jimmie Emerson killed at his old place in Bogg's livery. peach sellers near Diller. Jee Grable visiting Beatrice. Degree of Honor officers installed. Stele City visitors. young ladies rode horseback. livestock farm heirs in Canada. Wymore nine beat Diller 24 13. large farm residence struck by lightning and burned with $1,000 loss. inoculated chinch bugs reduce pests. Union Gospel Meeting program at Methodist church with questions about Jesus Christ.
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Jimmie Emerson
Bogg’s
Diller
Eric Roelfs
Illinois
John Hanley
Church notes and upcoming quarterly conference
Congregational and Methodist churches announce Sunday School at 10 A M with morning services at 11. The 4th quarterly conference is set for Sunday afternoon August 4. Members urged to pay church pledges or contribute. Lay delegate election to the Annual Conference to be held after morning service July 28.
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Robert E. Drew
Ray ‘Lamb
S. S
Park
Children's Day Pageant at Paul’s Ev Lutheran Near Diller
Rev Wolff urges 10:00 am services with a Children’s Day pageant All Things Bright and Beautiful. After service fellowship picnic dinner and games in grove. Article notes pension misperceptions for 65 plus and aid aims but cautions on eligibility and need. Local guide signallers reference.
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L. J. Wolff
C. L‘huilman
S. S
Jesus Christ
Rivers as state property along river boundaries
The article explains state ownership of rivers where located, noting federal limits on navigation power. It cites boundary rivers like Ohio, Mississippi, and Potomac, with Kentucky and West Virginia claiming jurisdiction to the far shorelines and concurrent policing in some zones. The Northwest Territory transfer preserved Ohio River rights to the towhead, later inherited by Kentucky and West Virginia.
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Indianapolis News
Chattahoochee
Potomiac
Kentucky
West Virginia
Ohio River
Ohio
Indiana
Supreme Court of the United,States
Northwest Territory
Mlinois
Harmony and Music History From 1300 to Purcell
The article surveys Greek musicians like Pythagoras and Tyrtaeus, Roman lack of musical culture, Pope Sylvester and Gregory the Great shaping church music, and later breakthroughs around 1800 by Adam Hale and Marchettus. It highlights Henry Purcell, English organist at Westminster Abbey, who by age nineteen wrote his first opera and produced several operas, sonatas, and songs.
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Pythagoras
Lasos
Olympos
Tyrtaeus
Montreal Herald
Sylvester
Rome
Gregory the Great
Adam Hale
Marchettus
Europe
Henry Purcell
Westminster Abbey
Classics in Art and Music Through the Ages
Henry Graves argues in the Montreal Herald that classical ideas span distinct eras. Greek and Roman works predate musical classics by a thousand years and ancient Egyptian music likely shaped early harmony, which then differed from modern harmony.
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Henry Graves
Mus. B
Montreal Herald
Greece
Rome
Ingratitude to the Horse as an Old Servant
A Collier’s Weekly recounts cases of whalers explorers and expeditions deserting horses on barren islands. A whaling ship near New Zealand found an old horse that had spent ten lonely years alone after being left behind when the crew sailed home before the war.
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New Zealand
Collier’s
So Are You Next in Line to William the Conqueror
The article notes in Pearson's Weekly that claiming descent from William the Conqueror is common. It explains genealogical math showing that if each generation is distinct, one would have four, then 16, then millions of ancestors by the thirtieth generation, yielding a playful, mind boggling ancestry perspective.
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William the Conqueror
William the
Pearson's Weekly
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P. Price
Geo Diller
Eugene Weigle
Irrigaon
Capt. Star
Jee Grable
Beatrice
J.smith Diller
People’s State
Degree of Honor
Steele City
Ates Puterbaugh
Temple of Near Ellis
Canada
Wymore
Dinler
Our Boys
John Ommen
Nee
Mr. Ommen
Lincoln
J. W. Sutton
Union Gospel
Methodist Church
Jesus
Christ
J. O. Blauser
Ijesus
Nelson
T. Collinson
B. F. Lightner
Congregational Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Shu
Aggoner Bros
Diller, Nebraska
Clark’s Store
Milady Coffee
Fort Howard
Nwbibraseka
Blue Valley
Credit Ass’n
Fairbury, Nebraska
Carl Schnuelle
Farmers Union Insurance Co
Omaha, Nebr
Astle
16Th & Jones Sts
Imaha, Nebre
Botel
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