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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
8
A grand brick and marble Mail Order Store rises in a major city block. Citizens nationwide are urged to send bricks to its walls, though the city itself contributed none. The structure is marketed as the world’s largest monolithic building with extensive floors and exterior brickwork.
The Cornell Widow profiled her own comic verse cycle and mock legends about Johnny and Eb and Fio. Poems traced Johnny from mischief to murder fantasies and listed verses from The Johnny Book. The piece cites widespread newspaper reaction to the humorous college verse.
A Vienna doctor reports that thirteen men out of one hundred and thirty three women dream in their sleep and that two percent dream frequently while forty five percent dream rarely. He notes dreams mirror daily life incidents and that women show a higher frequency of dreaming than men on average.
A Saint Louis Republic excerpt recalls Paganini negotiating with Vauxhall Gardens managers over capacity and price. He estimates 20 000 seats at four shillings each and offers to perform one concert for 13 000 with the remaining funds to the venue.
A child named Freddy fears harsher punishment after spilling water, asking his father what would have happened if the glass had contained ink. The poignant scene captures a parent's response to a minor accident in a domestic setting.
Farm Progress reports Angora goats will not protect flocks from sheep killing dogs. The two species do not herd together on the range and do not crossbreed. Angora hair sells higher than wool and meat brings city prices, though some markets mislabel goat as lamb. They are hardy but need dry shelter in winter.
A National Stockman correspondent notes woolly manure offers superior live weight feed value. Sheep kept in ventilated sheds with ten square feet per head and proper litter form a solid, premium manure by spring. Plaster on the floor suppresses odor while keeping sheep healthy. The manure ranks just after poultry in availability.
A Wisconsin station scientist outlines a simple test to distinguish new process oil meal from old process meal. Pulverize a sample, mix with ten tablespoons boiling water, and let settle. New process meal clears about half the water after an hour. old process remains jelly like.
Alva Agee in National Stockman notes lime should be spread after sod is broken for light applications. lime tends to move downward, so heavy rates are spread on sod the season before plowing, but the preferred method is mixing lime with soil after breaking the sod.
The stable should be well ventilated lighted and drained with tight floors and walls and plainly built. No musty or dirty litter no strong smelling material and no manure should remain longer than absolutely necessary.
The note records a 1732 New York Gazette ad announcing a public sale of valuable books from John Montgomerie Esquire late governor of New York. The auction starts Thursday June 1 at 3 PM with a catalogue available at the Coffee House in New York. It marks the first use of the word auction in print, vendue previously used.
The Chicago Tribune records a scene where a conductor questions initiating the 350 pound candidate and, after inspecting him, directs the outside guard to replace the goat with a mule, signaling a shift in the proceedings.
The earth spins on its axis causing greater centrifugal force at the equator. This produces a bulge at the equator and flattening at the poles. The axis length is about twenty six and a half miles shorter than the equatorial diameter.
A humorous exchange features John pressed for tact after inviting Mr. Hamfat to dinner and joking about a roast. The dialogue highlights social missteps and a clash over status between the characters.
The Montana welterweight Ketchell defeated Jim Thomas in a lengthy 45 round comeback match at Colusa after a previous brutal clash with Jo Phomis. Ketchell is billed as a stronger, faster fighter with a hard pace and body punishing style. He is then slated to meet Mike Cowin Sullivan on Washington's birthday at Colma California.
George W Jolusen, a New York oarsman now in St Augustine, is building a racing shell from newspapers. When finished next spring it will travel from St Augustine to New York via sounds and canals, using ten watertight bulkheads and a mosaic newspaper deck.
Harvard unveils a new crew program to develop inexperienced oarsmen through one on one coaching. Coach Veray will be at the boathouse Monday Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 3 to 5 to guide novices as spring call for men is issued. Coach Wray will assist with newcomers hoping to recruit promising talents who might otherwise remain unknown.
Disconnected excerpts discuss Indians and squabs in a colonial classroom tale, terms for pagan washups, royal titles, Columbus in the West Indies, the Duke of Clarence's death in battle, Valkyrie and Valhalla roles, and a quip about Jackson’s Vyatley campaign as a millinery metaphor.
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