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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1920
Page
2
The notice lists subscription terms: one year in advance and six months in advance. It is entered at the Diller Nebraska post office as second class matter. Advertising rates are available on application and business locals run until ordered out at 5 cents per line per insertion. Foreign advertising representative The American Press Association 76.
J W Shorthill, former Nebraska co operative grain and livestock association secretary, told delegates in Omaha that over one hundred million dollars was spent in worthless stocks and foolish ventures. He argued Nebraska has too much credit and warned that more credit will not fix the farmers’ ills while urging support for farmer owned elevator and commission companies and on farm storage until markets demand grain.
The piece argues wages and prices will deflate after wartime inflation, requiring a year or two to reach normal levels. It urges a nationwide era of economy to avert panic, noting that a dollar buys little now but will buy more after readjustment. It calls for massive savings to replace wartime wealth losses.
A nostalgic note celebratesreturns of missing friends visiting cities like Los Angeles and New Orleans. The piece fondly recalls Twenty five cent Haircut and Nickel Cigar as playful personifications arriving with kin, expressing joy and eagerness to welcome them home.
The article notes the du Pont company supplied about 40 percent of the explosives used by the Allied forces in the war and consistently beat promised delivery times. It describes the global effort to develop some 130 powder varieties to satisfy diverse specifications.
The Near East Relief runs consolidated bakeries in Constantinople seizing Turkish army supply lines. Twenty thousand loaves are baked and distributed daily under German management are now controlled by the relief. If lined end to end, five months of belts would stretch 280 miles showing the scale of aid needed. The organization seeks funds to continue this work.
Aghavni Millian, nineteen from Bitlis, recounts being seized the night before her wedding in 1915 during Armenian massacres and held five years in a Constantinople harem. Rescued with Near East Relief aid, she awaits marriage arrangements and return home as Armenia seeks nation rebuilding amid ongoing captivity of about one hundred thousand girls.
A 24 mile long table across Asia Minor, Syria, Armenia and Northern Persia symbolizes Near East Relief. Turkish terror continues as orphans from Greek, Armenian, Syrian, Assyrian and Jewish communities are cared for in American aided facilities. New arrivals arrive hungry and dusty while existing children are fed, clothed and taught trades. The article calls on America to set the table for a future Near East once relief succeeds.
All metal monoplanes have been installed on the Omaha Chicago air route.
Mail lines make regular trips between the two cities, indicating ongoing postal service connections and routine transportation between urban centers.
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