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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
8
A college student with little funds helps a mother on a European voyage. He cares for her crying baby on a ship in Liverpool and proposes to pay his passage home to America in exchange for the chance to accompany and protect the child across the Atlantic. The mother accepts and he fulfills his promise as they travel together.
A humorous dialogue from the Chicago Record-Herald about a man rushing to meet his wife at 11 30 to give her money for a new hat, highlighting timing and expectation in a light news tone.
A Metropolitan piece by Day Allen Willey describes brutal seal hunting scenes with repeated strikes of a bat and swift knives. The cannibalistic slaughter continues as hunters kill mothers and cubs, pile pelts, and tow carcasses back to the ship, ending only at nightfall. A second note from New York Tribune explains Annapolis midshipmen and West Point cadet practices as the “Lucky Bag” customs on ships and in barracks.
In Rambling Recollections Sir Henry Drummond Wolff notes English vanity for rank and deference. A high ranking lady’s daughter has foot pain and the governess, after examining, says only a bunion would be diagnosed if not for the ladyship’s exalted status.
A Philadelphia Ledger quote recounts a college audience reacting to a missionary urged women to abandon study for missionary work. The speaker pressed women to become fishers of men, provoking snickers and a complaint about levity from a proxy observer.
During a European tour Sir Henry Roscoe encountered an American who boasted that while America lacks Vesuvius’s spectacle it possesses a river capable of putting out the eruption in five minutes. The exchange highlights national pride and dramatic imagery.
Mrs X searches for pins on her dressing table asking what happens to them. Her son, learning Latin, quips they fall to the earth and become ter rapins in a playful Harper's Weekly caption.
A sacred Chinese turtle with a v imperial tag was caught in San Francisco Bay. A Kansas City poultry show hen, thirteen, has laid 2000 eggs. Two Skagit River miners found ore worth 40 dollars a ton but ran out of luck in an hour. Bath Me has an 1862 Paul Revere bell weighing 87 pounds hanging on Bath city hall dome for forty years. Kansas City merchants form the Ginger club with the motto Snappy merchants with plenty of ginger in them. The coldest time is shortly after sunrise due to sun strikes causing moisture evaporation. More than 2000 years old petrified corn ears at Bowdoinham Me owned by Mrs. W. B. Kendall.
John E. Madden, noted horse breeder and racer, moves to protect racing interests by entering horses in major stakes in England and France during a European trip. He plans to ship a large string of his horses abroad for next season if the new York legislature impedes racing.
The University of Michigan baseball team plans an eastern trip next season to face Cornell Brown Syracuse and possibly Pennsylvania and other small colleges. During spring vacation the club will travel south to meet Vanderbilt Kentucky Tennessee and several smaller colleges.
Jerry Freeman, a popular Minneapolis baseball figure, signs a contract to play first base for the Washington American League club for the coming season. Freeman, noted for his enduring popularity in Minneapolis, joins Washington to bolster their infield.
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