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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1915
Page
8
F. B. Homer argues that simple, sensible feeding and proper housing are essential for strong fertility and vigorous chicks in large flocks. He recommends yearling breeders, Wyandottes for brown eggs, and White Plymouth Rocks for brown eggs plus broilers, with roosts, open fronts, and continuous housing to maximize production.
Advice from the Missouri Experiment Station on raising baby chicks. Avoid excessive warmth and improper feeding, start small after 24 to 48 hours, use yolk-based early nutrition, then gradual mash with grit and salt. Ensure ventilation, avoid crowding, and provide sour milk or buttermilk to curb diarrhea.
Guidance on keeping mother turkeys hidden and protected nests. Advice notes shipping eggs by parcel post, dangers of drafts and dampness, overfeeding ducks, disease from crowded grounds, moving houses, and providing dry, safe housing. Recommends dry breadcrumbs as first chick feed.
A cryptic saying notes a hopeless man is deserted by himself and that desertion leads to loss of friends. It adds that ease may fail for one who laughs St. Horemond, implying a warning about fate and vanity in social life.
The passage reflects on destiny as a justification for errors or a cushion for successes. It hints that destiny reconciles burdens like unpaid bills and family ingratitude, and that progress or failure shapes one’s belief in destiny. The idea of destiny as a universal, recognizable force is noted, though not fully resolved.
Union Stock Yards South Omaha June 9 cattle receipts about 4 600 head with fat cattle steady to a dime higher. Choice yearlings up to 9.00 and heavy beeves to 8.80. Hogs about 11 000 head with shippers paying up to 7.69 for best lights and bulk 7.35 7.50. Sheep and lambs light supply and mostly steady with spring lambs to 11.50 and ewes 4.50 5.75.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote about a small maid who frets over table manners. She notes Cousin Jim eats with his knife the whole dinner while others are impressed, then quips that he didn’t use his knife at all. The humor hinges on politeness versus fussiness.
A joker fooled many housewives by claiming the telephone company would blow dust from the phones. Women tied cloths over sets to stop dust from blowing onto wallpaper furniture and pictures. Some contacts remained tied for hours while others until central confirmed the joke. The joker left town briefly to escape anger.
The Washington Star quotes Sardonia and Miss Cayenne debating greeting habits. He criticizes insincere inquiries while she notes a temptation to greet familiar people with an informal substitute. The exchange highlights social customs in casual conversation.
Advertises a range of Western tours with a $50 California rate and a $60 rate from June 1 to December 31. Highlights Glacier Park and Yellowstone routes, Colorado resorts like Estes Park, the Black Hills, Hot Springs and Thermopolis, plus ranches near Sheridan and Ranchester. Encourages asking for descriptive publications and map guidance.
The passage surveys unexplored areas worldwide, noting North America's northwestern Alaska region near the coast, Hudson Bay areas, Labrador, interior Brazil, and southern Africa’s Sahara regions. It highlights Africa as richest in unknown regions and mentions Arabia China northern Siberia and northern Australia as still largely unmapped.
A reflective piece argues that American haste and fatigue are celebrated but may be excessive. It contrasts American labor with European methods, noting Europeans’ effectiveness in science philosophy art and economics, and suggests some caution for patients and doctors.
In a Mississippi murder case the state’s principal witness, an old ex slave, withstood a sharp defense cross examination. After testifying, the district attorney noted his composure, prompting the reply that he had learned long ago it’s easier to drive around a stump than over it, a lesson from the woods.
Grace Margaret Gould, fashion editor, argues fashions target bodies broadly but require individual discrimination. What suits one woman may look ridiculous on another, so blindly following fashion can produce dowdiness rather than grace.
A reflective line notes that vanity sown across ages returns as despair. The speaker cites Goethe's insight to emphasize the human cost of fleeting appearances and unfulfilled desires.
The District Court of Jefferson County Nebraska ordered the sale of Lot 14 in Block 6 of the First Addition to Diller Nebraska. The sale to the highest bidder for cash was set for June 23 1915 at 2 PM at the courthouse south front door Jefferson County Nebraska. J W Fouts Referee. Lt C H Denny Attorney for Plaintiff.
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