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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1913
Page
3
Poetic meditation on kindness and gratitude. The speaker seeks grace to recognize the good in others, recall kind words, and remember helpful acts while letting go of pettiness. A call to daily thankfulness and mindful living.
Henry Ward Beecher extols Thanksgiving as a national festival centered on home life and nature. A humorous London Tit-Bits quip describes a team drinking beers as they score while the opposing captain worries about how to handle the beer.
The writer reflects on Thanksgiving Day as a time for home and family rather than public worship, noting that few follow presidents proclamation to gather. He urges keeping the holiday’s traditional focus on gratitude and family blessings.
During a holiday stay, Tetrazzini returns to the garden as guests listen to a gramophone reproducing her famous voice. The scene plays as a playful joke, with the singer sharing a moment of song while visitors enjoy the ambient performance.
A wedding occurred recently at a church in Gravesend involving the bridal pair and guests. The event drew attention due to the couple’s notable sensory disabilities and the community’s celebratory response.
Job openings across Nebraska and surrounding area attract attention as employers seek qualified applicants. Widespread postings cover multiple industries and locations, inviting diverse candidates to apply and advance their careers.
Community calendar highlights include Woodman’s Society event on November 20, the Iowa Nebraska football game in Lincoln on November 22, and the Nebraska Valleys Poultry Association gathering November 25 to 28. Also listed are the Nebraska Farmers Congress December 9 to 12, a Mid-State poultry show in Scottsbluff December 16, a lumbermen’s association meeting in Lincoln January 14 to 16.
Nebraska post offices report 68 term completions in 1914 surpassing 1913 vacancies. Lincoln postoffice term ends April 24, while Omaha remains until February 12, 1916. Months list show vacancies by town and date across January to December with several months showing no openings.
Walthill farmer F. E. Young lost his automobile to fire in a bizarre sequence. While climbing a hill he killed the engine, reversed to crank it, backed into a millet shock off the road, and set the millet ablaze with the exhaust. The car burned as Young walked home.
W M Thompson arranges a county corn growing contest for boys under 21 with fifty dollars in cash prizes to be shared by the four boys who grow the largest amount of corn on four acres of ground in Pawnee county.
Board of education seeks a city ordinance to stop distributing headache pills and other medicines to school children from house to house after numerous illnesses were reported. Superintendent C M Barr was directed to present the petition to the city council.
The new city directory Ef Tomnet lists York’s population as a specific figure. Further context not provided in the prompt.
The article reports a splendid Western Canada harvest with wheat, oats, barley, and flax yielding above average quality. It highlights high wheat and oat per acre yields, describes successful large and small farms, and notes many settlers moving west to farm, boosting regional prosperity.
The piece divides charity into public and private forms and notes a third, genuine charity that is rarely advertised. It claims public charity relies on salaried staff and subscriptions while private charity arises from surplus funds, with genuine charity remaining largely unknown due to lack of publicity.
An old safe remedy advertises Castoria for infants and children over 80 years old to ease crying. The notice emphasizes health and relief for young sufferers.
In a concise exchange, Dubbins is praised for hard thinking despite limited facilities. The remark highlights his perseverance and the implied resource constraints surrounding his work or activity.
A Birmingham Age-Herald item notes that his stories are well received and so are his cigars, followed by a proverb about a well-bred child never reproving its parents in public.
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