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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1933
Page
5
The Record office touts savings on newspaper and magazine subscriptions with a note that readers still call the underworld the underworld, but it seems to be on top, as a playful line about their offerings.
F. A. Moon & Son offer quality monuments at seasonable prices from Fairbury Nebraska established 1886. For sale brood sows for March farrow and White Rock setting eggs at 100 per hundred with E M Crocker offering custom hatching Ide per egg. Baby chicks 5c each. Mrs Roy Greider invites orders. Hagerman Bros advertise Good work horses weighing 1400 to 1450 pounds located 6 miles south and 1 mile west of Steele City. Adt If
A lion tamer greets a tailor arriving with a bill. The performer directs the tailor to enter the cage for settlement, reflecting a bustling backstage moment and humorous exchange.
Black's Shoe Shop in Diller announces taking orders for wallpaper from new books and for house paint at 270 dollars per gallon and barn paint at 1.50 dollars per gallon.
A dialogue shows confusion over fire whistles with Billy explaining the whistle signals water instead of fire. The exchange clarifies that the whistle indicates water presence and the fire is already contained.
Max Brand launches a new western serial Luck and a Horse in the American Weekly Magazine of The Omaha Bee News on February 26. The tale promises brisk action, frontier grit, and classic Brand storytelling as a sheriff and a daring rider collide in a rugged landscape.
A reader recounts a conversation where a patient cannot obtain information from a pharmacist and is advised to seek further aid from a doctor. The note appears in Everybody's Weekly from London.
Custom hatching in electric Buckeye incubators at 1 per egg. Baby chicks from banded blood tested Nebraska record flocks. Special price on Sunshine Brooders Peet Moss Feeds Supplies. Beatrice Hatchery 919 Market St Beatrice Nebraska. Ph 9296 At the sign of the Big Eye.
The item mentions Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago and the assassination attempt on President elect Roosevelt by Giuseppe Zangara. It notes Zangara’s indictment for murder in Florida and a speedy trial, with scattered references to Hoover and renewed records by Ben Behrends Ira Place and John Piager.
The funeral of Lew Shelley former publisher of the Fairbury News-Gazette who died in St. Petersburg Florida was held at the Presbyterian church in Fairbury Sunday afternoon with Rev Shupe officiating. Cemetery services were conducted by the Masonic fraternity.
Mr Garrels Fred H Garrels Sr aged 80 dies Tuesday at his son Harvey Garrels home in Diller. Funeral from the Garrels home at 1 15 PM Saturday then Lutheran church Lanham at 2 PM Rev Bicker officiating burial in Lutheran cemetery Lanham
Mr and Mrs Henry Hullmar celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on Thursday evening March 2 with a family gathering of their children. An eight o’clock chicken dinner and familiar chinaware were part of the evening, which featured conversations and singing.
Otis Babb a former Diller resident now in Nevis Minnesota sends a postal money order for two years subscription to the Record. The note explains money orders are cashed at the post office while checks are often held during bank holidays. The paper will accept checks when possible.
The public faced a three day bank holiday announced by Governor Bryan covering Saturday Monday and Tuesday with Roosevelt extending to Thursday. Nebraska followed the action due to heavy gold and currency withdrawals and broader Washington edicts. Officials expect the crisis to ease soon and people may soon joke about the inconvenience.
The Diller school board voted to cut the budget by 33 1 3 percent by eliminating one high school teacher and one grade teacher and trimming salaries and expenses. Some courses will be dropped while the high school retains accreditation and continues the Normal Training course and teaching certificates. The grades will be reorganized into combined classrooms to maintain core subjects with a goal to reduce costs without lowering standards.
Spring is expected to improve business conditions with an uptick in steel use from 12 to 19 percent capacity, depleted surplus oil, higher western state activity, revived gold mining, potential silver rehabilitation by Congress, traveling salesmen back on the road, and credit bureaus noting better conditions.
Mrs Roehrkasse hosted a St Patrick themed club gathering on March 1 1933 with fifteen members and special guests. Activities included a blarney stone speed contest a wished for surprises from the well jigsaw puzzles and a luncheon with St Patrick motif guests departed after an enjoyable afternoon with invitation to meet again March 15.
President Roosevelt convenes a special session of congress in Washington at noon Thursday to decide on financial policy with other matters to follow.
A Saturday Evening Post report notes that the first jig-saw puzzle was crafted by a Texas man. The inspiration came after he visited a town recently devastated by a tornado, spurring the puzzle idea.
Miss Lucille Taylor of Steele City will present a three act drama recital Beyond The Horizon with interlude musical numbers between acts at the Congregational church. The program, postponed due to sickness and weather, will begin at 7 30 and invites all to attend.
Mr and Mrs Frank Cully hosted three tables of bridge Friday at their home near Diller. Gerald Bowen won the high prize and Mrs Clifford Sparks the guest prize. Refreshments followed. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Al Claussen Beatice, Mr and Mrs Adolph Beran and Pattie, Mr and Mrs M C Bowen and Gerald, Mr and Mrs James Hays, and Mr and Mrs Clifford Sparks.
A nostalgic passage from Pathfinder Magazine quotes Grandma Wayback on laughter and tears, noting the future as what the past failed to be. It parodies finance and beauty standards, contrasting a bank roll with calling on high, and mocks a poor family unable to afford a gentleman.
Statisticians estimate the value of a college education at 100000 pounds or dollars, noting a college graduate earns more over a lifetime. The survey contrasts earnings by education level, with a college graduate reaching higher incomes and total lifetime earnings than high school or no diploma. Educational insurance is proposed to help more children complete college.
An inheritance exceeding $1,000,000 was left to J Rutherford Chalmers by his great uncle Sir John Rutherford. The condition was that he adopt the ancestral surname. Mr Chalmers agreed to the name change.
A district court in Plymouth sentences a man resembling the fictional Robinson Crusoe to sixty days. The case cites vagrancy as the charge and notes the defendant’s resemblance to the Defoe character. Authorities report the ruling followed standard procedure.
The article extols Nara as an ancient Japanese capital accessible from Asuka Kobe or Kyoto by train or auto. It highlights Deer Park temples and a premier museum, praising golden and silver pavilions, retired princes summer palaces, gardens, and pools with goldfish. A Wash the Moon cascade reflects the moon, tied to a historic belief in moon brightness and cleanliness.
Bob Connor, a middle aged farmer seeking Orangeburg county seat in the next legislature, runs on boasting of his unfitness. He declares he will not pay taxes until forced, admits laziness and limited education, and promotes economy in government. Connor led a field of 17 candidates with $22 campaign expenses, including a $15 entrance fee.
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