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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1922
Page
2
E. L. Jenkins announces his Republican bid for a second term as County Treasurer subject to voter selection in the primary on Tuesday July 18 1922.
County official I Peteny announces candidacy on the Republican ticket for County Attorney subject to voters at the Primary on Tuesday July 18 1922. Frank L. Rain.
E. R. Allen announces candidacy for Jefferson County Clerk subject to Republican primary voters' will. The statement asserts intent to seek the office in the upcoming election.
The writer announces candidacy for County Attorney as a Republican in Jefferson County. Primary election is set for July 1, 1099, with a pledge to seek the will of the voters.
The candidate seeks re election as county commissioner from the 1st district subject to Republican voters will. The primary is scheduled for July 18.
Readers urged to support the Christian Home Orphanage in Council Bluffs Iowa founded 1882 caring for about five hundred destitute children and elderly women. Severe economic times threaten food and shelter and the paper asks for prompt liberal contributions to sustain the non sectarian institution.
Dr. Edwin R. A. Seligman of Columbia University says tax exempt securities total about one tenth of U S wealth with about 30 billion dollars in bonds exempt from all or part of tax. He estimates federal bond exemption costs the government roughly 300 million dollars annually. He cites President Harding warning that tax exempt wealth drains taxable activity and curbs industry and agriculture.
A didactic anecdote compares bootleggers and stories of the man in the moon. It recalls ancient Chaldeans Greeks and Romans all claiming the moon figure banished for earthly misdeeds. A Sunday tale shows an old man warned by an angel to rest or observe Monday in heaven.
A sensational warning recounts how modern tools aid unscrupulous brokers in selling wildcat stocks across the United States. It notes 1000 bucket shops, potential annual office costs of 30 million, and schemes exploiting ministers, teachers, and housewives. A common ruse shows a salesman first selling ten shares at one dollar, then offers higher prices to trap buyers before disappearing.
A Philadelphia bucketshop ran a rig trading on false stock tips sent to 2000 names from a telephone directory. They repeated the scheme with new letters, netting about 575000 before arrests. The tale includes fake secrecy and a bogus formula for cosmic bearings as a cover.
In Yukon during long winter nights two line operators play chess by wire along 2000 miles of Canadian government telegraph line. Two men tap moves to each other while others listen in and make moves on boards locally. Vouched for by G. S. Fleming, district superintendent, Whitehorse, now in Seattle.
A fragment from a home notebook offers a cheerful table admonition about smiling, good company, and banishing negativity at meals. It includes a poem about smiling at the table and a cooking note praising Hicken pot roast as moist and superior to frying, with slow, low water cooking instructions.
Instructions describe arranging pear halves on lettuce, cherry pits removed and placed around pears, served with warm dressing. Then a recipe for potato soup with potatoes, milk, onion, parsley, celery seed, salt, white pepper, and a fat roux. The excerpt also notes that order prevents trouble and mentions spliced confidence.
A reflective note contrasts a fool who overestimates intellect with a wise man who doubts his own wisdom, suggesting confidence shapes perception of intelligence.
A quoted regional saying from Uncle Eben contrasts natural creativity with the burdens of responsibility, noting some men are born creative yet struggle to live up to duties.
Mrs. Jones finds Mrs. Smith crying and fears danger to a cat after Harold, the aviator, plans to drop the pet from two thousand feet. The concern grows as Harold remains absent and the cat is missing.
Willie bursts in with news a man wants to see the hosa of the house. Dad tells him to tell mother. Mother overhears from the next room and replies for Willie to tell Bridget.
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