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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1916
Page
8
The advice promotes a sleeping porch or open bed room and a cold sponge bath each morning, noting occasional colds despite precautions. It highlights Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a great help to recover more quickly and suggests obtaining it everywhere.
The guide advises pruning to reach large outer limbs, back to smaller upward growth, remove suckers except where they fill open sides, clip them to fruit. Remove dead, injured, and crossing branches to favor fruiting wood and larger fruit. In Illinois canker area, take special precautions and never leave stubs. Extensions bulletins provide full directions.
Notice to horse owners that the Black Percheron stallion Goumoult weighing 1850 pounds will stand at Brown's Barn in Diller Nebraska three days a week Tuesday Thursday and Saturday starting April 1 or sooner if desired The stallion will also stand at the provider's residence four miles north and 24 east of Diller The service fee is 10 dollars to insure the colt to stand and suck.
The Germans use portable kerosene based flame weapons in Verdon assaults. A small back carried tank with igniting nozzle and hand pump launches flammable liquid up to 60 to 90 feet. French troops report several men burned severely by the liquid.
Edgar Howard editor of the Columbus Telegram and candidate for Lieutenant Governor spoke at W. J. Bryan's Lincoln birthday celebration. He recounted a Kentucky visit and a warning voice about the tears of women and children caused by the liquor industry and its moral cost.
The guide advises maximizing garden size to fit family needs and demands, growing many crops for variety, equalizing space by productivity, and arranging plants by season. It stresses using standard varieties and prioritizing quality over novelty, with sequential planting patterns for continuous harvests.
Belgian Kongo, founded thirty years ago, remains in a nascent phase. Aside from Katanga copper mines, railways and river services are the major enterprises, while colonial business centers on collecting tropical products like rubber, ivory, gum copal, palm oil, kernels, and cacao for export. Rubber output has not regained its pre-1912 wealth.
Vigorous demand for fat cattle and bread demand for cow stuff. hog prices steady. lambs sell steady with ewes stronger. Union Stock Yards South Omaha Neb reports 239 loads of cattle totaling about 6900 head, with prices across beef, cows, heifers, and calves. Hog sales to 9.35 top, lambs 11.50–11.90, ewes up to 8.40, yearlings to 9.90.
A French girl asks about the English word awry and learns its meaning from a walking dictionary. She mutters about a tram conductor who mocks her with a mispronounced reply at Forty-second Street, recalling linguistic faux pas in New York.
The white shark has seven rows of teeth and other species vary. Only one row is used at a time while the others lie hidden behind the jaw and erect themselves to replace worn teeth. The incisors are sharp enough to bite through a big rope as easily as thread.
In Jefferson County Nebraska the petition of J W Madden seeks probate of Henry Madden deceased Will dated March 2 1916. Executor J Smith Diller. hearing set April 22 1916 at 9 A M. notice to interested parties by publication in Diller Record for three weeks. attorney L Rain.
In the matter of the state Hannah Adams deceased creditors will meet the Administrator before the county judge of Jefferson county Nebraska at the county court on the 26th day of April 1916 and the 26th day of August 1920 at nine o'clock A M to present their claims for allowance and adjustment. Six months are allowed for creditors to present their claims from the 26th day of April 1916. All claims not filed by August 26 1920 will be forever barred. This notice will be published in the Diller Record for four weeks by order of the court dated February 26 1916. Trai Lotus J Mizmas attorney for estate.
A humorous survey of how different cultures phrase love in their own languages. The text lists examples from Chinese Armenian Arab Turkish Indian and Greenlandic with a phonetic rendering for the Greenlandic line. It highlights the diversity of affectionate expression among peoples.
The Cutlers' company likely predates Henry V's charter. In the early 1400s a fierce quarrel with the Sheathers arose over sheath quality and workmanship. The Sheathers accused the Cutlers of selling inferior foreign blades for English weapons, highlighting a longstanding professional feud.
In the matter of the estate of Maria A Blauser deceased creditors meet the executor before the county judge of Jefferson county Nebraska at the county court room on May 1 1916 and August 1 1916 at nine o clock a m for presenting claims for examination adjustment and allowance six months are allowed for claims to be presented from March 1 1916 all claims not filed by August 1 1916 will be barred. This notice is by order of the court dated March 1 1916.
The London Globe notes Cyprus was a popular British resort for about a year after being declared a British protectorate in 1478. It mentions the coast lacked harbors to compete with Malta, leading to a rapid decline in its status as a rogue settlement.
The earthworm commonly known as fish worm was used by European medical practitioners two to three centuries ago for internal use and sometimes made into ointment or embrocation for external use.
A brief quarrel is reported where one party claims both husbands were out late, while the other insists the husband was indeed out with the other spouse. The exchange appears in a Detroit Free Press item highlighting a domestic dispute tone.
A London Telegraph note quotes a woman asking about reading. he says he reads a great deal mostly light reading. She reacts with a mix of scorn and helpless indignation at the mention he reads gas meters for a living.
In the Marengo engagement about 58 000 troops fought and around 13 000 were killed or wounded about 22 percent Napoleon regarded Marengo as his greatest victory and kept the uniform he wore on that day throughout his life.
A curious reader asks what a tittle is and seeks clarification on daily stock phrases as reported by the Columbia State. The note reflects a common linguistic query in the period and invites public explanation.
A Bacon quotation highlighting how absence of pursuit leads to vagueness and lethargy, contrasting purpose with idle life. The line suggests that activity and ambition give life direction and energy.
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