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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1948
Page
7
A tourist questions a lazy Indian tei at a doorway. The chief asks why not work in a factory, earning money and saving for a bank account. The tourist presses for retirement by not working, prompting exasperation.
In a family meal scene Sam accepts roast chicken and a drumstick but refuses stuffing. He questions why chickens eat stuffing, offering a light, humorous moment about food and manners.
A farmer disputes his hired hand about school lessons claiming the world is round. The elder insists students are being taught new ideas despite his disbelief and mocks the concept as a lie.
The sergeant ends a strenuous drill recalling giving wooden soldiers to a poor boy as a child and hearing his mother say he would get them back some day. He declares that day has come as a tramp claims relief from lumbago and a three week cigar is finally lit.
A Yorkshire man bet 38 pounds a homing pigeon could return from London. The bird’s wings were clipped before release at King's Cross. After three weeks the owner’s rival claimed victory, but the pigeon finally returned home with sore feet.
A Quaker man awoke in his high house to find a burglar at work. He retrieved his gun and returned to the doorway, addressing the intruder with calm warning that he would shoot if the man did not leave, asserting no harm intended to him but insisting on his own safety.
A drunken man staggers indoors in the rain and mishandles the bathroom shower, causing a noisy splash. The shouting Little Woman confronts him with harsh insults before pleading for entry as the storm rages outside.
A cryptic fragment appearing in a country weekly columns shows a disrupted notice about someone near a property. The garbled text reads Anyone found near my chicken eee a eee git be sone there in and lacks clear names or events.
Farmers have purchased more postwar airplanes than any group aside from airport operators. The rise in airfields supports farm commerce with local drop-in stores at fields. The Flying Farmers organization spans 36 states with over 5,000 members and has established about 200 farm airstrips in Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota.
The advertisement notes Pattern 8037 in sizes 14 through 46 with 3 yards of fabric at 39-inch or 35-inch widths. It promotes the Spring and Summer issue of FASHION offering sewing information for home dressmakers, special features, easy to make styles, and a free pattern printed inside the book priced at 25 cents.
In this column Roger Whitman answers septic tank questions about yeast use and drain cleaners. Small quantities of drain cleaner are safe, but large amounts can halt bacterial action. A large water flush can remove chemicals, then restart bacteria by dissolving six cakes of yeast in warm water and flushing into the tank.
Lake: re stalled in 1885. The fragment mentions a statue and a stalled lake project dating to 1885, with unnamed references to Liberty and van Rood.
The piece answers several trivia questions. Some flowers bloom ten months a year, starfish can perform hand springs, spider thread is extremely fine, river water levels vary across channels, about 13 percent of Americans are red haired, and Alaska’s typical crop is potatoes.
A city boy and a country lad discuss a streetwalker with vivid fashion. The farm lad replies as a farmer, saying it shows poor soil to need so much ton-dressing.
A frantic man asks a naturalist for housing. The naturalist quips about living under the stars with the sky as a roof. The man counters that he prefers something smaller.
An old gentleman toys with a boy as he asks what little boys are good for. Johnny replies with childlike wisdom that boys are good to make men out of, delivering a brief, humorous exchange in a quaint, period voice.
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