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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1924
Page
4
A short government notice outlines processing through the post office at Diller. It mentions a second class matter and a rate of five per cent per item for each insertion.
President Coolidge amasses about a thousand votes in the preferential primaries and a Cleveland office is opened to operate until the business is wound up. Indications point to a free for all floor fight to name the Republican vice presidential nominee in line with Coolidge's wishes.
The long running oil scandal lingers as senate inquiry ends and court battles loom. Sinclair and Doheny fight possible prison time and property losses while the 1920 Democratic and Republican conventions loom with McAdoo leading in votes and Gen. Wood failing to widen his margin.
A coast-to-coast newspaper chain targets Secretary of War John W Weeks over alleged improper ties with large financial interests linked to the government. Secretary of State Hughes is also tied to the Leipvins Board inquiry, accused of steering a ship sale to a foreign firm for too little money despite American bids.
An old established private banking house linked to Jacobites is recalled. Founder Andrew Drummond is thought to have been a Jacobite before banking, allegedly walking from Edinburgh to London with a price on his head to fund the Stuart restoration. The Malacca cane with a gold crutch and Lord Lovat’s passage are noted as era echoes.
A lyrical landscape portrays a parched countryside with hollyhocks drooping and a hot ash tinted valley. Birds and insects sulk, a shepherd dog and cat recline, and storms rise with belching thunder and silver rain before nature recovers and smiles after the downpour.
The Lafayette Memorial, an American society, aims to honor the Marquis de Lafayette in central France. It will maintain Chateau Lafayette at Chavagnac as a school, orphanage, sanitarium, and museum with a modern farm, water, heating, and a public hygiene backed medical program for tubercular children and a Lafayette relic museum.
The Wormwood Scrubbs prison was designed by a convict and built entirely by convict labor. It contains 1,881 cells and cost £97,000 in total, at an average of £707 shillings per cell.
An army officer relays a tale of a spirited exchange between two young chaplains from different denominations. The senior chaplain wittily proposes a postwar bury the baby brother quip and gains the upper hand, leaving the junior chaplain momentarily disarmed by the retort.
A Scottish registrar notes many courtships skip formal proposals, arguing that a marriage plan often emerges without an explicit question. He suggests the notion of popping the question is not universally essential to courtship.
Edith Picton-Turbervill becomes the first Englishwoman officially cleared by the Episcopal church to preach. She arrives for a lecture tour, serves as an Order of the British Empire member and IY W C A director, and is a leading English woman politician who believes female ministry would lift morals privately and politically.
In Hollis New York six junior extension club members told a bank they could succeed in farming. They borrowed funds last spring rented one and a half acres hired a tractor and earned more than a dollar an hour for their work.
An elderly London man visits Doctors' Commons on Knightrider Street daily to learn if his youth sweetheart married. He previously obtained a license for a planned marriage that never occurred. Now wealthy, he wants to trace his former fiancée to atone for her disappointment.
A brief exchange features Cunningham offering a cigar with the line Have a cigar on me and Burris responding with Dont care if I do The remarks shift to a lighter note mentioning a fourth child in a casual banter style
Lanett Alabama veteran 78 year old Civil War survivor Meadows recalled being shot in the eye at Vicksburg. Doctors could not remove the bullet but recently he coughed up the slug believed to be the same one from the battle weighing about an ounce.
In Kinston North Carolina a six month foundling left at a black family home appears white. Doctors consider the infant an octaroon or quadroon creating a dilemma for juvenile court and probation officials about placing the child. The family refuses risk and the court weighs assignments to segregated institutions.
Thieves entered the B. Le Sims department store in Detroit and took a safe containing $650. They forced the front door and fled. The safe, found in a vacant lot with its door pried open, had the money missing. This marked the fourth theft of the same safe in a year, according to Ecorse police.
South Bend and Raymond in Pacific county are adding radio receiving sets to their tax lists. Field deputy E Kilbourne reports numerous radio sets identified in assessing personal and merchants stock, with descriptions included to ensure each is taxed for county revenue.
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