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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1924
Page
4
Union services at Chautauqua for Sunday school and public worship. Special music and congregational singing led by a conductor. Rev Pengelly to deliver the sermon. Junior C E meets at 7 PM with Bible work praised for stars and crowns. For all members of two choirs on the platform at 11 AM.
Northwestern university engineer John F Hayford receives the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society for establishing isostasy. The award, to be presented May 26, places him among Peary and Rice as recent American honorees. The theory links deep earth pressure to surface elevation and explains earthquakes, with nine years of coast survey work supporting the case.
The Methodist church announces a union service next Sunday at the chautauqua tent with Sunday school and preaching. The sermon titled Love in Four Dimensions will be followed by an evening chautauqua program. The pastor will attend a ten day summer school course at Nebraska Wesleyan University starting Tuesday, requiring absence on Sunday the 15th with arrangements for services.
A historical sketch notes how birds aided exploration from protecting Rome with sacred geese to guiding navigators like Columbus and De Weert. It highlights penguins saving crews after Magellan era voyages and frames birds as crucial, if overlooked, factors in maritime exploration.
Field Museum assistant curator J. Alden Mason reports discovery of the Arhuacos, a secluded Colombian Indian tribe of 2000 to 8000 people. They live in a narrow coastal mountain strip, farm variable terrains, and keep secret customs including a unique marriage practice and coca chewing.
A series of brief maxims contrasts past and present eras. It pairs practical sayings about work, virtue, and judgment with cautions about ambition and belief, suggesting prudence and patience over reckless leaps and hollow trends.
Three men formed a human chain from a trestle to the Blackstone river at North Bridge Massachusetts to rescue a prize collie from drowning.
In ancient times the earth was a soft semi liquid globe spinning rapidly. Scientists think centrifugal force flung off material that gathered into a giant blob and, due to its rotation, formed the moon.
Customs officials announce that travelers entering Mexico from Brownsville Texas must obtain identification cards. The cards are not passports and simply identify the holder to officials to prevent delays. Regular crossers will have several days to secure the cards before enforcement begins.
The Air Ministry and War Office in London plan a sky defense reaching 30000 feet under Col. Edward B. Ashmore. The scheme aims to deny raiders space from earth to three miles with nets, mines, shells, and fleets of high altitude fighters. It also contemplates vast artificial cloud screens to cloak the skies beyond.
In recent years donkeys have given way to electric equipment but remain common in many mines. They pull small coal cars from the digging area to the shaft, where coal is raised to the surface.
Two elderly spinsters Luella and Mary Ann Radmore were arraigned in Chatham police court Ontario on cruelty to animals charges. Clad in ragged burlap secured by hay wire the sisters were lured from a 200 acre farm in Romeny township after firing guns to scare away presumed evil spirits. They were jailed a week for insanity examination.
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