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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1910
Page
4
Terms of subscription are one year or six months in advance. Beweernee price listed as $1.50 for six months. Paper entered at Diller Nebraska post office as second class matter. Advertising rates available on request. Business locals run until ordered out and charged five cents per line per insertion.
The piece discusses efficient dining car layouts with space economy, inventory control, and waiter wages. It cites a Beef Trust prediction of rising prices and vegetarian trends, plus a Michigan court ruling limiting the International Harvester Company’s legal standing.
Twenty six Paper Board Association members pleaded guilty to being part of an illegal combine restraining trade. They were fined $2000 each by the New York Circuit Court on the seventh.
A national sugar company has paid into the treasury the funds it swindled from the government. It notes that a thief cannot be jailed but can be made to disgorge. A New York registrator predicts automobiles will regulate freight by competing with common carriers. Building good roads could hasten this shift.
Local items report residents moving around Rock Creek Fairbury Odell and Beatrice. Wm Nida returned to Rock Creek precinct while Mygron Patton and wife moved to Fairbury. Several relatives attend funerals in Beatrice and Leigh. Annuities include seed testing inquiry and a public sale planned for Clark Blauser in Colorado.
Mrs Bernice Creekmar visited friends on Tuesday and planned a short stay. She met her husband in Fairbury on Thursday and traveled to Missouri to visit relatives. Ed Wagenaar moved back to a south of the tracks residence to grow a larger garden and keep poultry and pigs. Mr Asendorf is moving into the vacated property.
A play and shadow social will be held at the Pleasant View school house Dist No 58 six miles south and one mile west of Diller on the evening of March 12 at 8 00 o clock. Everyone invited. Gladys Simpkins, Teacher.
The article argues fishing is among the oldest industries, noting early humans used hooks nets and ash spears. It states eastern Mediterranean civilization began with fishing and that Sidon, meaning fishery, specialized in mollusks for Tyrian purple dye.
James questions the claim in a newspaper about a dog sold for five thousand dollars While Maria continues sewing and calmly defends the idea that value varies with rarity or breed The dialogue contrasts naivety with rational skepticism and hints at gendered humor.
A historical passage explains tiny solar particles held by gravity unless light pressure from the sun pushes smaller grains outward. It notes the corona, zodiacal light, aurora borealis, and comets tails as made of such particles. The aurora shows outward and inward motion due to light pressure and gravity balancing at intervals.
Two spiders living in a church meet in the aisle and trade notes on Sundays. One fears the pulpit’s banging and jelly-pressing, while the other boasts a serene life in the poor box, never disturbed from year to year. The exchange, drawn from Fearson's Weekly, wittily contrasts church sounds with unlikely refuges.
In a district school a spelling lesson ends with a pupil missing the word chimney by dropping the b. The boy beside her corrects the spelling and earns a chance to advance, while the girl frets about her mother’s punishment.
A seven year old boy named Ted was sent for a bath and quickly returned claiming he washed himself. He told his mother to check the bathroom and “look at the tower” as proof, a joke noted by the Delineator.
In Illustrated Bits a playful panel shows Miss Homeleigh recounting a strange man attempting a kiss once and Miss Cutting retorting that he would be odd to try again. The dialogue highlights comic flirtation between the two characters.
In London Punch a joke contrasts two wives. The first notes economy by cooking at home while the second agrees that her husband eats less now, implying cost savings.
Quote attributed to Amer emphasizes that many prefer surprise over satisfaction, suggesting a provocative approach over comfort to engage audiences.
In a brutal Allagash swamp fight, Bilhorn’s stag is overwhelmed by a rival, the victor lifting the carcass and vanishing back into the bog. The spectacle ends with the king slain, defending his crown in a fierce, arena-like clash.
The limpet can lift 1 981 times its weight in air and nearly twice that in water. The Mediterranean cockle exerts a pull 2 07 times its weight. An oyster requires 1 319 times the oyster's weight to pry open its shell. If a man matched these relative strengths he could lift millions of pounds. London Answers.
A tale from ancient China describes a prized clay teapot gifted by an emperor to Lo Bung Chang, sparking envy and a rival mandarin's attempt to destroy the cherished possession, leading to a broader conflict.
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