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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1937
Page
8
Ireland’s Own recounts Garryowen as a popular Erin air named from Owen’s Garden, a hilltop vantage in Limerick. The tune’s creator and the Garryowen Boys are recalled with minstrel verses adding to its renown across Ireland and beyond.
Do not dwell on faults in others or yourself seek what is good and strong, honor it and imitate it. Uprooting faults is harder than strengthening virtues, yet a rugged life can still bear grand growth like a palm with fruit at its top.
Before Washington was chosen as the national capital Germantown, Pennsylvania, nearly became the site. Congress passed a 1789 bill and an amendment stalled by a session shortfall, delaying Germantown’s bid and preserving Washington as capital.
The piano descends from the harpsichord and clavichord to an ancient Oriental stringed instrument named the dulcimer meaning sweet tune. The dulcimer was a wooden sound box with strings struck by a padded hammer producing music. The full name pianoforte means soft and loud.
English history centers on Dover Castle perched above white chalk cliffs. The fortress, praised as the very key and gate of England by Hubert de Burgh, has witnessed Roman, Saxon, and Norman layers of conquest and defense on that strategic hill.
The Knights of the Garter, a British order founded by Edward III in 1349, is the oldest and foremost chivalric order. Its motto Hon est qui mal y pense joins lore about a garter tale, Arthurian revivals, and a 25 to 36 member roster with the king among founders.
The document records a 1620 covenant aboard the Mayflower by passengers led to plant the first colony in Virginia. It states the creation of a civil body politic and passage of laws for the common good under King James. Signed at Cape Cod on November 11 in the year 1620.
Sir Christopher Wren born 1632 in East Knoyle Wiltshire, studied at Oxford, served as professor of astronomy, surveyed St Pauls in 1663, led rebuilding after the 1666 fire, and died 1723 as the famed architect of the new cathedral.
Erosion shapes valleys hills and cliffs by action of rivers rain sun frost and sea. These forces wear away surface particles, loosen rock, and undermine coastal and inland formations.
The text lists presidential aides including John Quincy Adams’s son as secretary, Andrew Jackson’s adopted son Andrew Donelson handling White House duties, Abraham Van Buren to Van Buren, Robert Tyler to John Tyler, Millard Powers Fillmore for Fillmore, a Buchanan nephew, and Ulysses S. Grant’s son aiding his father for years.
The British Museum houses early handmade envelopes from 1696 and 1755 1760 used for government documents. Envelopes were not common until nearly a century later with booksellers and clerks turning spare time to envelope making. The French and Japanese used them for powders and scents before mailing use.
The passage notes land in 1830 and the rise of the envelope in 1840 with Sir Rowland Hill founding Penny Post in England. This landmark reform shifted postage calculations from the number of enclosures to weight, transforming mail cost determination.
In late Roman times emperors used brutal entertainments to pacify subjects with Christians fed to lions and gladiators, crucifixions and burnings. The phrase Roman holiday later describes any spectacle causing suffering for performers, echoing Byron’s jab in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
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