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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1924
Page
1
Election day set for April 1st with next Tuesday described as All Fools Day. Local items include hay for sale prairie seed for sale cattle for sale several young cows. large flocks of geese and ducks migrating north. Divorce actions noted with Judge Colby granting three divorces in Fairbury.
F A Moon and Son of Fairbury Nebraska advertises quality monuments since 1886. Roads have dried to passable but rough condition. Dan Griswold’s health remains stable with no improvement. Mrs Scott Miller, unable to withdraw, declines to run for school trustee.
Agnes Richardson leaves Blue Springs to work for Elmer Greider and daughters at Diller. The note credits Dawes and Young with stronger impact on Europe today than any American effort since Woodrow Wilson.
The Gypsy Rover operetta was presented at the opera house by high school pupils last Friday night. Despite poor road conditions the house was well attended and the performers played their parts well.
Mr and Mrs Ray Colman and their daughter Maxine visited Saturday for the funeral of his aunt Mrs Hudson but could not stay as services were postponed to Monday and they returned Sunday to their home in Lincoln.
Strikes and lockouts in the United States during 1928 cost American workers and employers together 703,839,575 dollars and consumed 20,551,140 working days. From 1916 through 1923 the total loss was 12,522,203,356 dollars and 424,329,088 full working days.
Mrs. Lulu White visits Mrs. Ruth Bowers on Sunday. The county commissioners meet at Fairbury on April 2. J A Marshall reshingling his residence. New shipment of ladies coats received. Seed oats from Kherson for sale at 50 cents per bushel. Bev and Roy Roelfs visit Lincoln for medical advice. Mrs. M E Musser thanks Dorcas class for carnations during illness. Mrs. Fred Hicken’s recovery is slow and discouraging. The Record marks its 38th year of publication. Mrs. L J Upson and Mrs. H K Moffit travel to Inavale to visit Chas Arnold family.
Mr and Mrs RK F Starr depart on an early Sunday train to Florence South Carolina after receiving a telegram that their son John employed by the Chattanooga Med Co is ill with typhoid fever in a local hospital.
Mr and Mrs R F Starr announce they arrived in Florence South Carolina on Tuesday evening. They report John fell ill March 11 with typhoid fever and quit work that day. He was sick four days in a hotel and the rest of the time in a hospital. Recovery is hoped but may take a long time.
Mr and Mrs Hal McCune and daughter Thelma of Missoula Mont arrived in Diller Tuesday evening to visit his brother E E McCune and family. The group recently spent most of winter in Missouri with relatives and will split up with Mrs McCune and Thelma heading to California for health reasons while Mr McCune returns to Montana. Also visiting and sharing supper were Mr and Mrs Chas McCune Roy McCune and family and Orval McCune.
Four months old baby of Mr and Mrs Alfred Sisk has pneumonia but is improving. Mrs Harry Wells arrives from Wyoming to visit her parents Mr and Mrs W E Mudge whose mother is seriously ill. Rev E E Pengelly travels from Burlington to Table Rock for the Beatrice District pastors and laymen meeting with about fifty pastors in attendance.
Tuesday’s stock shipment included a carload of cattle and one of hogs and mixed stock shipped by Le Wiemers and the Farmers. Aasa Scede Wiemers and Harry Ahrends accompanied the shipment to the St. Joe market.
The Diller chautauqua is scheduled June 4 to 8 under the Standard Chautauqua system. The lineup includes two plays headed by The Gorilla, the Lovleess Concert Party, St. Cecelia's Singing Orchestra a Novelty Trio and three lectures by H Gossard W H Nation and Raymond B Tolbert.
Nancy Copple born in Indiana March 3 1842 married twice first to Edward Rogers 1858 producing two daughters then to William Hudson in 1865 with eleven children and many grandchildren. She joined Federated church at 13 and lived as a devoted member until her death with a large extended family listed. funeral at Federated church with interment at Prairie Home.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness shown during our bereavement and for floral offerings for our mother Mrs. Nancy Hudson. Gratitude to Rev. Clark for his consolation, the singer and those who provided automobile conveyances to the cemetery. The Children.
The article describes a substantial Alaskan dish for a large family. It details cutting two pounds of round steak and half a pound of salt pork, cooking with celery and onion, browning the meat, adding flour and fat, then simmering thirty minutes. Just before serving add cooked spaghetti and stewed tomatoes.
Scald oysters and remove from liquor as edges curl. Make a roux with butter and flour, stir in milk until thick, add nut meats and celery, season, then oysters. Hollowed rolls are toasted and filled with the mixture. shells are buttered for extra daintiness.
Soak one pound beans overnight then parboil five minutes or longer. Rinse and cook until tender. Add salt to water, season a half pint of tomatoes with salt pepper and onion juice. Drain beans and combine with the tomato mix. Bake in a beanpot with two thick slices of bacon until crisp.
A historic recipe describes using sheep’s tongues or calf tongues. Simmer four tongues with cloves and onion until tender, peel and cut lengthwise, season, then roll in flour and fry in butter with onion. Serve in brown sauce with lemon and hot boiled rice.
A quirky exchange suggests lunar cycles influence tempers at home. The speaker notes that couples argue whenever the moon changes, while the other retorts that the moon directly affects their life.
A minister describes a comical wedding moment as a groom accidentally greets his fiancée with a polite introduction. The anecdote, framed as extreme emphasis on ceremony, ends with a witty misstep during the vows.
In a recent interview Thomas A. Edison describes a scientist as a childlike thinker who questions everything. He compares scientific curiosity to a boy examining a fat man at dinner and asks whether the stomach grows from eating or eating grows from a big tumtum.
Local physician Dr. G H Newton announces new practice in Fairbury Nebraska focusing on eye ear nose and throat care for residents of Jefferson County.
Local market notes show limited readable details with scattered numbers and vendor hints. No clear names, places, or dates emerge from the fragment to identify specific items or transactions.
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