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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1905
Page
8
A humorous piece on smoking habits linking behaviors to character. It claims misers smoke to the bitter end and nine of ten smokers are misers, while fast smokers are hot tempered. Poets and newspaper men burn their fingers, and cigarette handling reveals honesty, health, and manners beliefs.
Secretary Taft joked about a pessimistic senator at a Washington dinner. He compared the man to Elisha Howard of Zoar, who always groaned despite a strong Ohio harvest and high prices. Taft noted the farmer still blamed luck and expectations rather than success.
Ironworkers perform acrobatic feats while erecting cantilever bridges using safety nets. The nets do not hinder material handling and, in a recent case, saved six workers during bridge construction.
A concise meditation on the myth of the hero in a contemporary novel. It contrasts ordinary workers with literary heroes whose emotions surge in a single chapter. The piece notes exaggerated reactions and questions who truly bears the hardest burden of heroism.
Mrs Pepprey directs Bridget to flip the front door mat to hide a visitor, noting the neighbor Mrs Gaddie is crossing the street. A brief domestic moment captured in Philadelphia Press style.
Otho L. Hays former president of the Galion National Bank is working in a Superior street billiard room in Cleveland. He recalls leaving Galion penniless and says his wife’s friends helped her buy an interest in the billiard room to pay the mortgage. His misapplication case was continued to the October term after his attorney argued lack of funds and needed trips to Columbus to inspect books for his defense.
The London Pall Mall Gazette notes Italian discontent with court economies at the Quirinal. Citizens gripe that 16,000,000 francs yearly goes to the king while the queen wears an old costume at races. They accuse the court of seclusiveness and limited public delight, hoping for visible change amid mounting unrest.
Agricultural losses from pests reach about 3 billion dollars yearly with at least 298 million in min imum damage from 14 major insects. The cinch bug tops losses, especially hitting wheat, alongside the Hessian fly and rootworms. Cotton damage from boll weevil could reach 250 million annually as it spreads across the cotton belt.
The London Mall reports a new anesthetic called Stovaine, Chlorohydrate of Dimethylamino benzolypentanol, discovered by Dr. Fourneau. It creates complete anesthesia below the injection point within five minutes when injected into spinal fluid, lasts about ninety minutes, with no consciousness loss and no observed unpleasant effects so far, though English doctors remain cautious about testing it due to control and infection concerns.
The aquarium displays its largest green turtle yet, weighing 313 pounds and 3.5 feet long on the shell. Captured on Florida's Atlantic coast, it will grow to four and a half to five feet tip to tail and feeds on ulva and eel grass.
Siegfried Roebling, fourteen, son of John A. Roebling, wandered from Asheville toward Knoxville for a week, sleeping in churches and freight cars. Found in a Knoxville bowling alley by Judge T. A. Jones and Ned Holmes, he returns home and laments his dislike of school, saying he would not be forced back.
A young woman confronts a man over not wearing a gold chain with his eyeglasses in Boston. The incident reflects a local tone that values principled sacrifice amid a shortage of eligible men.
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