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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1905
Page
4
The Diller Record lists publication details for Diller Nebraska with Frank T Pearce as editor and outlines subscription terms including one year two six months and three months options. Advertising rates are available by inquiry and business locals are billed at six cents per line per insertion.
A P toothed Washington Post report quotes a fat driver claiming about half the horses used by local brewers drink beer. He says horses will not work without a morning and noon beer bucket, and they seem to love mash and beer as part of their diet.
The Baltimore Sun notes a tiny boll weevil driving Indiana to call a special session. The pest, moving from Texas/Mexico, threatens cotton across the belt, with losses reaching about 25 million dollars. Louisiana proposes a non cotton growing belt to halt its advance northward.
Professor Maun der and Professor Newcomb view the question of life on planets as unresolved. Within our solar system tentative probabilities exist, but beyond it science offers no solid answer. The article notes the long historical stance from Whewell to Galileo and Cappang and ends with acknowledged uncertainty.
A broken-down black horse pulling a cart with vegetables collapses and dies as troops march past the Place de la Concorde. Mme Lecocq, seated on the cart, is thrown to the ground. The event recalls the horse that once carried General Boulanger, famed as the man on horseback.
Albert Livengood of Crawfordsville Indiana prepared for his burial months in advance. He ordered a coffin shroud carriages a minister text hymn and a tombstone with date to be engraved later after his death from consumption.
The Victoria Colonist reports BC mineral output for January through June 1904 compiled by the minister of mines. Gold reached 123,339 ounces and silver 2,037 ounces, with copper 17,613,886 pounds and lead 16,500,000 pounds, noting expected year end gains from district amalgamations and new plants.
A Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania woman who snored in church and caused a disturbance when the sexton woke her was fined $5.50 in a police court. The Chicago Record-Herald quotes the remark showing the mood of the era.
Edwin Be Brophy a Sea Gate and Manhattan Beach line conductor found a tobacco pouch with 15 hundred dollar bills on a Sea Gate back platform. He turned it over to a well dressed woman who had lost it. She offered a quarter as a reward which he refused.
Archaeologists warn that looting of prehistoric ruins between Flagstaff and Black Falls in the Little Colorado River valley endangers a citadel and related structures. The sites feature compact masonry, roof entrances, flat roofs, and a red sandstone mesa overlook visible from miles away, with the largest ruin standing about three stories high.
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