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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
8
Reminiscences recount Thanksgiving with fathers and neighbors in Hum t and Pawnee City. notes include Joho H Miller building a porch, Dr Diehl’s Buick trip to Omaha, and Corn delivered at 50 cents a bushel. Beatrice wedding, rural mail route meeting, and a diphtheria scare with Roy Geer.
The fur auction in New York records the highest price for a single pelt at $11,000. I. J. Fox, a retail farrier, paid the amount for a Norwegian bred platinum fox, a mutation of the silver fox.
The Seattle Fur Exchange reports Seattle is second only to New York as a fur market. Last year the auction house sold 750000 raw pelts to bidders from around the world.
Fifty years ago an Illinois town traded a dollar fifty for cobs while Harry Davis fed cattle shipped from Omaha. A E Trowbridge offered auctioneering services with years of experience. Elizabeth Ellsworth sued Fairbury for five thousand dollars after a defective sidewalk caused a fall. J W Fouts sought medical treatment in Hot Springs Arkansas for an inflammatory condition. A hunting party near Steele City saw J H Barlow discharge a gun injuring H H Bliss in the right leg, leading to his quick death from hemorrhage.
The Pan American council in Chicago reports a flood of inquiries about Latin America covering travel, relocation, training, art, music, literature, and politics. It acts as a clearing house and focal point for eight Latin American organizations including Friends of Mexico and Instituto de las Espanas, with a bi monthly bulletin outlining film showings, concerts, discussions, and classes.
The actress was seven when Sarah Bernhardt chose her for a child dancer role on Broadway. Bernhardt, tall and striking at sixty plus, would pat Gish on the head nightly as she prepared to enter. Gish recalls the ritual years later while recalling life with Father.
In a retrospective look at Kitty Hawk the Wright brothers Orville and Wilbur advance the era of flight fulfilling Roger Bacon's early prophecy and Leonardo da Vinci's long held dream of human flight.
Glen D Angle of Detroit edits and compiles a massive aviation reference titled Aerosphere 1939. The work, a hefty 1400+ page compendium, reflects decades of air era progress since Kitty Hawk. Angle, an engine designer and author, formerly taught at Lawrence Tech and now works with Briggs Manufacturing.
Young actress Maude Adams first appeared on stage at nine months old carried by a company member in Salt Lake City. The note highlights her precocious start and ties to early theater history.
The French zoologist Milne Edwards sought a scientific name for the Kweichow monkey with a turned up nose. He reportedly named it Rhinopithecus rozane after a courtly lady Roxana known for her tip-tilted nose. The article notes the reaction of Roxana is not recorded.
Mrs Gladys D Barnes the rural schoolteacher recently elected president of the Washington Educational Association returns to her school with 12 pupils to greet her. The historic school erected 50 years ago at Washington State's admission to the Union has no electric lights and only an old stove for heat. Barnes says she would not chance changing her position despite her august role.
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