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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1939
Page
2
The Diller Record lists subscription terms: one year in advance and three months in advance. It notes post office entry at Diller, Nebraska for transmission through the mails as second class matter.
The record lists Nebr. games with opponents and scores from Sept. 30 through Nov. 14 including ties and wins. Notable results: Nebr. 7 Indiana 7, Nebr. 20 Baylor 0, Nebr. 25 Kansas State 9, and Missouri 27 Nebr 13.
Nebraska edges Kansas 70 to 0 in Lincoln in a revenge game sparked by Herman Robrigs second quarter TD. Kansas struggled but band performances provided colorful halftime and postgame pages, with Nebraska’s square dance finale marking a unique college scene.
Minnesota crushed Michigan 20 to 7 on Saturday to climb from a seven year low. The win marks six straight defeats for Michigan by Minnesota, a streak unseen in modern football history.
A two headed newborn and a legless mother who feeds her baby with her foot are noted as oddities, while Norris REA may relocate from Wilber to Fairbury after a Mary-Etta hotel meeting between district and chamber directors, with a decision possible at the Wilber board meeting on December 1.
In the Straits settlements two monkeys are regularly used to gather botanical specimens. They understand 12 Malay words and are tied to a 180 foot line to reach high tree tops for flowers leaves and twigs. Many specimens are unknown to science and beyond reach of men who cannot climb high. Monkeys have long been used by natives to stack coconuts.
A letter warns Fairbury residents to avoid handling rabbits as rabbit fever Tularemia infects people through skin contact with fur or meat. The account cites a 65 year old Fairbury man who died last week and notes a Cecil Craig in Reynolds hospital with rabbit fever contracted from rabbits killed on October 17.
The name Alpheus is Hebrew in origin with two meanings the learned and one who is exchanged or substituted possibly a changeling. In Greek myth Alpheus is the name of a river god.
A regional survey notes waterfowl and shorebirds favor island nesting on lakes and rivers from Lake Superior to Lake Erie and Saginaw Bay. Islands, even muskrat-created, provide protection from predators and boost nesting success, guiding refuge and restoration efforts.
The writer in Pearson's Weekly argues natives harvest bananas while green and hang them to ripen off the plant. Bunches are hung upside down from the stalk to ripen, a method claimed to yield better flavor than fruit left on the plant or in stores.
A Collier’s Weekly piece notes Pope Lando 913–914 as the last pope to add a new name to the papal list. It says the 139 popes who followed drew their names from earlier predecessors.
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