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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1914
Page
8
A promotional piece touts the Avery Yellow Fellow grain separator claiming record efficiency and life guaranteed teeth. It urges threshers to request a Free Avery Separator Book detailing grain saving, faster threshing, better cleaning, and higher earnings.
Farmers face a record nine hundred million bushels of wheat needing proper stacking to prevent spoilage. The Crop Investment committee of Chicago grain exchanges urges careful, systematic stacking rather than leaving wheat in shocks to ensure timely handling and storage for plowing and markets.
A satirical plea from a horse laments the public’s shift to automobiles, claiming society no longer rides or drives horses and predicting the animal’s day may be over as auto vehicles rise. The narrator smiles yet warns that old paths on city pavements are giving way to new transport.
Forecaster G W McDowell of the Sioux City weather bureau clarifies that cyclones torndoes are distinct. He notes cyclones are broad low pressure areas while tornadoes are narrow whirling air columns with short paths. He compares Sanborn Iowa and Canisteo South Carolina storms as cyclones but calls them tornadoes.
The department of agriculture urges potato growers to treat seed potatoes with sulphur to prevent powdery scab spread from imported infected tubers. Potatoes should be soaked in formaldehyde then dried before cutting and then dusted with flowers of sulphur, a practice recommended in addition to formaldehyde. The European disease affects young tubers and can cause serious yield losses if repeated planting on infected land continues.
The article extols Chamberlains Tablets as a grand remedy for stomach and liver troubles and notes they are for sale by Shutt Drug, highlighting growing public recognition.
A concise moral urging boys and girls to keep their promises and act on their word. The rule fosters careful planning, faithfulness, and thoughtful behavior to develop strong character in youth.
A simple home recipe suggests dissolving a pound of cheap bar soap in a gallon of boiling water then adding it to about five gallons of thick whitewash to create a glossy finish like oil paint. A dash of soda at one to ten parts of whitewash yields a fireproof cement.
A farmer should not mix orchard crops with hay on the same land. The piece argues dedicating land to fruit production yields better results while hay should be grown elsewhere.
The home canner is a vital farm aid saving waste from perishable fruits and vegetables. It preserves surplus produce for winter use and for sale when markets are not ready, helping every farm store and utilize seasonal harvests.
Entomology professor George A. Dean identifies the culprit as the common clawback cutworm. Damage mainly affects fields with volunteer wheat and grass or alfalfa. Preventive steps include summer plowing, volunteer wheat control, dust barriers, and evening application of poison bran mash to field edges.
The article outlines land preparation for alfalfa over two years, starting with deep plowing and manure, keeping corn or potato crops clean to reduce weeds, then double dishing rolling and harrowing in spring. It details sowing with a wheat drill mixing alfalfa seed with cornmeal and calibrating drill settings for about sixteen pounds per acre.
Insomnia query appears in the Philadelphia Record as a puzzled note about naming the condition and the unborn child when sleep eludes a person for days. It hints at how language frames medical and personal questions amid newspaper whimsy.
A former newspaper man now in a penitentiary writes in American Magazine about opium and morphine addiction. He claims long term use destroys will and compels theft or dishonest acts when a habit is at stake, detailing his grim experiences and warnings.
The panorama was invented by Robert Barker, a Scottish showman who licensed in London in 1787 and built a rotunda in Leicester Square. He worked with Robert Fulton, who brought panoramas to Paris in 1796 and then stepped back for Thayer, who built a rotunda on Boulevard Montmartre, inspiring the Passage des Panoramas name. Bonaparte planned eight panoramas to display his conquests but the schemes were never realized.
A New York Post quotation recalls a man who received a perennial birthday letter from a former sweetheart. He mentions the letters arrive on a different day each year, with affectionate wishes for long life and happiness from the girl who cannot forget him.
The article explains Easter Island dwellings built against earthen terraces of rock. They use small stratified basalt slabs without cement, with irregular layouts. Typical rooms measure 12 feet 9 inches long and 4 feet 6 inches wide, walls about 4 feet 10 inches thick, ceilings 4 feet 6 inches high, and doorways around 20 by 19 inches.
A Louisville Courier Journal snippet cites a quote about cautious speech regarding people. The speaker notes reluctance to claim misquotation due to not being prominent enough. The text appears as a brief quotation exchange with unclear context.
A brief clip from the Philadelphia Press records a playful exchange where a parent praises a growing child and the child notes she already helps at home by moving aside when told. The humor centers on a practical, cheerful household dynamic.
A fragment from the London Telegraph quotes students joking about their teacher Wilfred calling him a bee. The mock definition uses comic wordplay to describe Mr Wilfred as something the class pretends to get wax from.
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