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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1906
Page
2
A country rector seeks a young curate for a 600 soul parish. Uncle Bertram tests five candidates with overnight stays, quirky introductions, and misadventures before advertising anew for a quiet country curate with an interview in London.
In a sparse update, Uncle Bertram conducted six interviews in half an hour at the railway station waiting room but returned home alone and downcast. He remains without a curate.
Consul Pitcairn in Hamburg cites a Commercial Association report on subsidies for Germany's sailing fleet. Steamships now dominate cargoes, with sailing vessels shrinking. government seeks to train deckhands and sustain small shipyards. Provisions would allocate funds for 10 months per trainee and expand later to larger craft, aiming to enlist 2,000 young men into the maritime career.
A newlywed couple from Selbyville Delaware Edwin Simpler and his wife became separated on Broad Street in Philadelphia. Simpler reported his wife missing at the Tenth and Thompson street station. Fifteen minutes later a woman claimed her husband was missing and the pair were reunited. They vowed not to be separated again.
In Corsica near Aleria malaria infests the area and local inhabitants resist quinine, clinging to gentian root as a traditional remedy either powdered or chewed. The bolstered claim spans malarial regions and historic usage.
Travelers in the Andes note a peculiar effect at a halfway inn on the direct ascent and descent route. Ascenders perish from the cold while descenders succumb to heat, creating a haunting, climate-driven trap on the mountain path.
The U S Geological Survey published eight bulletins from 1889 to 1898 detailing seismic shocks along the Pacific coast. At Mount Hamilton the Ewing seismograph and a duplex pendulum record horizontal and vertical motions, with time, while Lick Observatory researchers like Keeler Holden Perrine contributed key reports.
A groanworthy exchange between The Fat Lady and The Glass Eater about having a glass too much. The Man in the Topper confesses he sought a specialist for eyesight and was told he needed glasses. He visits a bar called the Blue Pig and leaves seeing double.
The London Globe remarked that the full horror of San Francisco's situation was not clear to British workers until this morning when it was announced that all able bodied men in the city were being compelled to work.
During the recent British Guiana riots some women were sentenced to have their hair cut. The punishment is a colonial legal penalty, but the Earl of Elgin has signaled that women will not be punished this way again.
A Houston Post quotation notes the operation at a funeral featured the most flowers and hacks seen, describing a striking and unusual display. The remark highlights the unusual scale of the event as observed by the paper.
Baron Takaki says four-fifths of Japanese boys study English and predicts it will soon become Japan's language and then a global language. He frames English as rising in importance for education and international communication.
A humorous collage from a family scene shows four year old Bessie welcoming a new sibling, Ida reading Pope, a quizzer claiming Noahs wife was Joan of Arc, and a boy misdefining lava and a blizzard. A fifth grader muses on North American and European animals, while a mother stitches a rip as a child imagines a cigarrette picture.
Instructions stress keeping clocks wound and accurate with forward hand movement. Avoid reversing motion to set time and never move a balanced clock for dusting or display. Pendulum clocks require careful placement to prevent daily time deviation of minutes.
A Colorado mother credits Grape-Nuts with reviving her sick child after pneumonia brain fever and teething. She says after visiting Kansas City they fed the child Grape-Nuts and milk then the cereal itself, noting rapid strength and growth. She raises her daughter on it as well and recommends Grape-Nuts and cream for sturdy nourishing nutrition and a healthy brain and nerves.
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