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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1920
Page
2
One year in advance. Six months in advance. Advertising rates are known upon application. Business locals are run until ordered out and are charged at five cents per line for each insertion. Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.Entered at the post office at Diller Nebraska for transmission through the mails as second class matter.
More than 300 Nebraska farmers replaced scrub sires with purebreds and enrolled as breeders under the Better Sires Better Stock campaign. Virginia tops with 1,000 farmers. South Carolina close behind Nebraska. The program, backed by federal and state agencies, aims to improve livestock quality and boost farm profits within five years. Greenville County, S C, led counties with 177 emblems awarded.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader argues cities are the great problem of American life with rising unemployment. It urges young men to stay in jobs at home and seek opportunities in smaller communities rather than migrate to crowded urban centers.
The standard Greatest Mother poster, used in the second war fund drive, is adapted for postwar Red Cross work and will illuminate the main poster for the Fourth Roll Call November 11 25. The familiar image has long stood as a hallmark and synonym for the American Red Cross.
Underground miners fear strange hobgoblins born of darkness. The ladder swarf haunts ladders while Nickel and Kobold haunt German mines, reputed to aid or steal ore and even blow lamps. Miners propitiate goblins with bread cake and money to secure good will.
Forestry research from Madison Wisconsin outlines several seasoning and preservation methods. Cut timbers late in summer and score bark on two sides to aid air circulation and natural seasoning. Coat ends and knots with coal-tar creosote after cutting. Do not score bark in a variant, then nail bark back with large headed nails per square foot and paint nail heads to match bark. A western company with rustic hotels has successfully used the nailing approach.
Four waitresses in New York City report to police that a thief stole a $650 fur coat from each of them. The incident highlights ongoing struggles faced by service workers amid rising crime and economic pressures in the city.
Farmer J Lester Hyman near Lo fansport reports a Black Langshan hen laid a warm brown egg on Easter, later found hard boiled. The wife had recently used shells from boiled eggs, explaining the unexpected find.
The British government plans to reduce silver coin fineness from 0.925 to 0.500 due to the spike in silver prices. Prewar silver cost under 30 pence per ounce, now about 88 pence, making the intrinsic value of a 0.500 fineness shilling higher than the prewar 0.925 shilling.
A humorous note from The Watchman-Examiner describes Doctor Wilder as absent minded and dependent on his practical wife. Mrs Wilder sends a private footnote during a pulpit reading announcing a Women’s Missionary Society meeting with a sharp reminder to straighten a crooked necktie.
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