Comedian and Soubrette Describe Tour Support
A comedian recalls asking for support on tour and meeting a kind hearted landlady who housed the duo for two weeks offering shelter and encouragement.
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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
8
A comedian recalls asking for support on tour and meeting a kind hearted landlady who housed the duo for two weeks offering shelter and encouragement.
Myra returns home with muddy white shoes as her mother scolds her for stepping in a puddle. Myra explains with a calm shrug that the puddle was there to step in.
A reader asks what a child plans to do when grown. Bobbie replies she will raise mint, explaining her family’s belief that their money comes from mint farming as stated in Path finder Magazine.
Senator Sorgum and a colleague discuss how discoveries accumulate with experience. The exchange highlights that constituents have learned much as well, underscoring a shared growth in knowledge and understanding.
The report recalls Indian Creek's 1881 flood aftermath with Bridge damage at Diller and Odell. It notes livestock losses, washed wheat and bridges, plus horse injuries and truck difficulties. Also mentions local theatre ads and upcoming western and Marco Polo films with Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard.
Will Clark travels to Davenport Iowa seeking work with CRI and PRR. His companion visits relatives while Samuel Clark arrives from Iowa to run a store in Diller Lodge. AOUW instal led fifty years ago with officers W H Diller M W L Tristman F G B Zook O C W Pearce Rec G I Hodges Finc Jesse Miller G J P Cul ly L W J M Geer C W
A historic watch tower from buccaneering days towers in ruins with a forbidding presence. It bears the name given by Blackbeard the pirate Edward Teach, once feared in his era.
The famed humorist Jud Tunkins remarks that a man who laughs at his troubles often has a poor sense of humor suggesting a stoic view of hardship and wit.
The Customs Service was created by the first Congress in the act of July 31 1789. An August 24 1912 act gave the President authority to reorganize abolish ports and consolidate districts and the March 3 1913 presidential proclamation established the current field organization.
The text traces the name Colette or Coletta to Latin roots meaning a tiny, small collar and notes Nicolette as a diminutive of Nicholas from Greek origins meaning victory or heart. It mentions Colette as a third order Franciscan member urged to reform that order in a vision and credits her with aiding the Council of Constance to heal the Western Schism and influence Martin V’s papal election.
A local theater screens Pat O'Brien and Kay Francis in Women Are Like That along with a Western. Paramount news reel rounds out the bill.
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