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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1938
Page
4
A mail sack was run over by a morning train last Friday, wrecking Fairbury newspapers and some exchanges. Gretchen sorted the fragments as Dr. Black recalled a Journal-Star story about a girl asking if her mother was making kisses while voting.
The long awaited southward highway from Diller toward No 3 South is taking form. Residents recall a changed view from Main Street as new road alignments open and traffic begins to move past Carr's corner and Indian Creek bridge.
The Midwest Turkey Growers Association of Deshler dressed and shipped four carloads of dressed turkeys, 7 350 birds, to New York for the Thanksgiving market. A Christmas shipment is expected to exceed Thanksgiving in the number of birds marketed.
Elmer Neiman left half back for Kansas State is Box Holle’s nephew from Diller. A big shot on the Manhattan eleven, he will play at Lincoln Thanksgiving Day, with home at Herkimer Kansas. Local fans expect extra spice in the matchup.
The article lists Kansas State meeting Nebraska in Lincoln to end the season with game results across October and November including Nebraska losses to Minnesota Oklahoma Missouri Pitt Iowa and a Kansas State win cited. It also includes a domestic verse about a wife and mother reflecting on family duties and a defensive reaction.
The World Almanac places about 16 percent of Jews globally, four and a half million in the United States, nine and a half million in Europe, and two and a half million scattered across Asia Africa South America and islands. The narrator notes Jews are few in number but face many troubles and wonders why.
An Associated Press dispatch from Berlin reports President Friedrich Werner of the supreme Evangelical church council ordered the name of Jehovah removed from Protestant churches across Nazi Germany. The decree also calls for erasing names of Jewish prophets with penalties including burning churches, reflecting the anti Jewish violence sweeping the nation.
The article outlines Thanksgiving as a religious and national holiday proclaimed by presidents and governors since colonial times. It traces origins to 1621 Plymouth and Lincoln’s 1863 proclamation, notes the last Thursday timing, and lists a historical noon dinner menu featuring roast turkey, chestnut dressing, corn bread, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie.
The writer notes Leif Ericson as the first known European to reach Vinland around 1000 A D. He sailed with 35 men from Greenland in a small ship, reached land after days at sea, and wintered there. Norse sagas record the voyage though few forts or settlements are found.
The Deshler Rustler reflects on tired, battle-weary elders who carry fear yet yearn for grace. It envisions Heaven filled with grandfathers in shabby coats, hoping they shed fear and embrace living fully until they die with timeless wings.
The text notes bananas were first carried to the Western hemisphere in 1516 by Fra Tomas de Berlanga, with American market shipments by steamship in 1880. It also states the Bureau of Mines finds almost no difference in granite quality and durability across sources and dates. Pyramids in Egypt served as royal tombs and living temples with separate chamber uses.
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