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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
2
The county announces that ay is a Republican candidate for County Attorney of Jefferson County subject to voter will at the Primary on July 10.
A candidate announces intent to seek re election as county official at the upcoming primary set for July 18. The notice emphasizes serving the will of voters and continuing county leadership.
In a public Sunday evening letter to President Harding William Jennings Bryan urges that a U S representative be sent to the Geneva conference to advise with European nations on rehabilitating the old world. He says U S entry to the league of nations was a national and international calamity and places responsibility on both parties while urging wiser action now.
Over 24,000 rural mail carriers in western agricultural states assist the Department of Agriculture this week in a pig census. Carriers on each rural route deliver and collect a card from about a dozen farmers who will fill it out and place it in the mailbox for counting.
Surgeon General Cumming of the United States public health service appeals for better rural health organization. A survey showed 3 percent adequacy two years ago, and now this has risen to 6 percent.
The state and federal government had spent $7,529,384 on Nebraska roads under the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916 by April 1922, with a remaining balance of $4,333,389 available for expenditure.
The Nebraska death toll for Civil War veterans reached 173 in the previous year, reflecting ongoing declines in a veteran population once central to state memory.
The article extols mothers as the lifelong source of comfort and guidance. It notes May 14 as Mother’s Day, originated by Anna Jarvis, and urges people to send flowers and letters to mothers far from home, while urging daily appreciation beyond one day.
A concise historical timeline recounts wireless development from 1827 magnetic needle experiments to 1897 Marconi milestones. It notes Faraday induction, Cooke and Wheatstone speech transmission, coherer detector, Berlin signaling, and Marconi’s increasing ranges and royal demonstrations.
Chronology tracks key events from 1838 to 1908 including early telegraph patents, Morse experiments, earth return ideas, high frequency oscillations, cross river wireless tests, ocean communication suggestions, cost trials, Royal Society predictions, Trowbridge earth current work, floating wireless stations, marconigrams, lighthouse radio reports, naval use, balloon links, and the first transatlantic radio message with Marconi knighted.
The passage traces milestones from 1907 to 1919 in wireless technology. It notes Marconi patenting and tests such as steel disks for notes, radio stations in Ireland, Nova Scotia, and Britain, and Titanic distress signals. It highlights transoceanic links, long distance messages, naval tests, and wartime restrictions on private radio.
In 1920 radio telephone gains attention and many broadcasting stations open. The following year 1921 also marks a prolific expansion with numerous stations starting operations.
Report claims a lake of pure petroleum in the western Olympic mountains of Washington. Indigenous camps reportedly use cedar sticks soaked in oil for fuel and light. Prospectors seek the pool where Indians make long burning fire sticks, with potential for vast oil finds in an accessible region.
Critics deride a new silver coin nicknamed the flapper dollar. One writer mocks the open lipped figure, suggesting it looks like it might say Line's bizzy or Say, lissen Just that sort of girl, you know at Boston's Urenecript.
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