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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1914
Page
4
The piece notes how in 1914 auto travel faced bad roads and hostility, while by now modern midwest farms widely own cars and trucks. It argues road improvements will unlock farm prosperity, reduce mud and distance, and spur lasting highway progress for year round service and commerce.
With only a few English imports allowed, the United States will rely on its own stock as European war disrupts breeding imports. Experts say the U S draft horse standard will not suffer and the vast existing pure blood supply will meet needs, letting American drafts prove their qualities.
The state horticultural society estimates that all divisions in Nebraska generate ten million dollars each year. The per capita production is about ten dollars for every resident.
Nebraska voters produce a 39 member joint majority with Democrats holding 67 of 100 House seats and 19 of 33 Senate seats while Republicans hold 83 and 14 respectively, establishing a unified party control in both chambers.
A young wife seeks fine clothes and luxury beyond her husband’s means. He yields to desire at the cost of his honor and faces a dire price. The piece portrays how the lure of wealth poisons character and society.
The article argues Congress levied 105 million dollars in war taxes to offset lost import revenue, with beer the heaviest contributor at about 50 million. It names taxes on stamps, banks, tobacco, theater tickets, and luxuries, framing the dollar as the burden bearer of war and praising industries and workers sustaining national credit. It notes luxuries like liquor, tobacco, sugar, and diamonds fund the treasury and urges unity as industries march to support Uncle Sam. It closes by praising home pride and the farmer as key to national success.
A committee of 35 railroad executives led by Frank Trumbull appeals to President Wilson for cooperation in sustaining railroad credits amid rising costs and wartime credit dislocations. The memorandum notes regulatory expenses and calls for private and governmental action to prevent a transportation crisis. Wilson praises the memo as a lucid truth and pledges to help, urging cooperative solutions over rigid rulemaking.
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