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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1931
Page
5
A fragmented verse tale follows Willie Weeks facing debt and hunger. He pleads for cash with only small coins, asks riches for aid, and meets a fatal end as the tale glides toward the coroner's inquiry. The verses hint at sorrow and doom.
Classified fragment shows items for pigs and sow purchases, shoe shop offers in Fairbury Nebraska, and dental case advertisements. Mentions Nebr F A Moon and Son, Dentists Dr Keey, plus assurance of satisfaction and guarantee for denture cases.
A classified notice from Diller Farmers Grain Co. by Paul Stark announcing weekly hog purchases at Highest Market. Farmers are asked to list hogs for sale and deliver them to the Diller location on Thursdays, with prices and terms to be provided.
Cornbelt Lumber Co announces affordable prices on screens doors and windows. Located in Diller Nebraska the notice urges readers to check current stock and consider replacements.
Two men are being held in Riverside County California jail in connection with the July 3 slaying of Frank Zimmerman a rancher and former Ellis Nebraska resident found beaten to death in his garage near San Jacinto His will was filed for probate revealing an estate over 5000 Zimmermans farm near Ellis was sold eight months ago before he moved to California.
The passage hints at careful restraint and timing in discourse, likening it to golf strategy. It mentions Findling peloting his residence on Short street and contrasts well timed silence with speech as a powerful tool.
Mr and Mrs John Carico visited relatives at Falls City then returned to Diller. Alfred Mayborn of Akron Ohio vacationing with parents in Diller. Seven year old son of Mrs John Weaver of Okmulgee slept poorly due to a copperhead incident. M S Chipperfield 62 former Diller druggist died of heart trouble in University Place buried at Evergreen Beatrice. Frank T Pearce and wife travel to Kansas City to visit granddaughter Fern Cavett and family, plan return possibly after the Diller picnic.
Bert Bates of Idaho who shot William Kunter and surrendered the weapon to himself was granted a commutation from a five year sentence effective December 23. The shooting happened on Thanksgiving morning 1928 in Kunter’s sister Marie’s apartment. Marie and William Kunter are children of Mr and Mrs August Kunter.
George Andrews of St. Joseph visited first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Guard of Lincoln were weekend guests at T. H. Waggoner’s home. Carlet Daniele paid a $5 fine plus costs for reckless driving. A New York editor answered a boy’s question about when a boy can do as he pleases. Mrs. Bell Newell and Ruth spent days with relatives in Versailles, Iowa, while Mrs. Annetta Caylor visited Crab Orchard families returning home yesterday.
County Agent W O Connell reports an uptick in Jay hawker grasshopper swarms in Marshall County Kansas. Farmers are advised to apply a homemade poison mix of bran dry arsenic molasses and citrus juice around field borders, with treatment best done at night or early morning when hoppers feed.
A Sunday trip to Lincoln with relatives and friends became challenging as a northwest storm brewed on the way home. Heavy rain and lightning between Beatrice and Ellis flooded roads two miles north of the Ellis school, forcing water crossings and stalled cars. The travelers stayed overnight in Ellis with a local grain buyer, then detoured via Fairbury to reach safer roads toward home.
A North Atlantic summer anomaly leaves no icebergs sighted by the Coast Guard ice patrol though usually 200 to 500 bergs drift from April to August. The piece also notes odd conversations at a telephone operator’s desk and a family scene with grandma and a cat.
Odd season accident in Tuscaloosa reports whiskey discarded from a barrel into a gutter. A dropped match sparked the liquid, flames lapped back to the barrel and exploded, injuring Foreman Young, 14, who stood nearby as officers watched the incident unfold.
A resident of Ruse Kansas explains a chain of value comparisons. He notes two cigars costing 10 cents equal 83 loaves of bread via wheat to flour to bread conversions and adds that forty cigarettes, 35 cents, compare to 60 pounds of wheat at 33 cents.
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