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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1929
Page
2
The piece opens with subscription terms for the Diller Record noting rates and open account terms and lists ad rates. It then critiques enforcement gaps in Prohibition laws, praises Vice President Curtis for cabinet service, and discusses Hoover possibly implementing Wilson’s world peace ideas.
The piece outlines presidential pay history from Washington through Hoover, noting a $75,000 salary plus $25,000 traveling allowance, paid monthly with no annual accounting. It highlights reforms, past raises under Grant and Taft, and debates about increasing to $100,000, while praising notable figures tied to the era.
The article notes a forthcoming French built ocean liner for trans Atlantic trade nearly a thousand feet in length. It contrasts the vast vessel with Columbus era boats and praises skilled maritime leadership, ending with a brief personal aside about family.
In San Francisco Garland Williams, 28, told police he planned to kill his former wife Lorraine Ambrose and then surrender to authorities so the state would execute him. He described her begging to die with gas, his refusal, and how he strangled her and cut her wrists, planning to turn himself in after arranging affairs. He said he and Ambrose were briefly happy, then split after a friend spread rumors. He claimed he was ready to die and believed they would join in death.
Joplin Missouri item reports a drug out triangle drama ending in four deaths. D L Nutt and his nineteen year old son are jailed on first degree murder charges after Nutt allegedly shot John Cole who was found with Nutt's wife. Nutt previously killed a man twenty years ago but was acquitted.
A brief notice presents Thomas Arkle Clark, dean of men at the University of Illinois, as author of Along Life's Trail. It highlights Clark's role and the book’s title in a concise reader’s notice.
A reflection on impulsive marriages ending in divorce notes society debates easy grounds for divorce. The writer likens marriage to a lifelong contract and contrasts modern attitudes with traditional views on commitment and responsibility. A separate anecdote hints at a Maine sailor finding a sculpin with a waterlogged message carved A. K. dated June 19, 1919 near Northeast Harbor.
The piece lists scarlet fever, meningitis, whooping cough, and other illnesses as chief causes of deafness in children, warning of ear damage from infections and untreated conditions.
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