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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1929
Page
3
A collage of small items from Fairbury and nearby towns covers M W A meeting schedules, Nebraska river and lake trivia, a jazz milk claim in Texas, farm and shoe shop ads, family and travel mentions, and educational news. Notable names: Fairbury, Diller, Shenandoah, Globe references.
The era once marked by reluctance to attend school has become appealing with better wages and living standards. Parents now strive to give children a brighter future, as nearly two million more students entered schools this fall than the previous year and child labor decreases.
A geodetic survey covers large areas and accounts for Earth's curvature. It provides geographic positions and data for detailed local surveys and ensures independent local surveys fit together under a common control.
The article notes growing demand for rayon as a silk and wool substitute and rising needs for wheat and sugar. In the U S wheat flour demand has fallen while foreign demand rises. Europe shifts to wheat from rye, the Orient from rice. Tobacco demand, especially cigarettes, grows, and vegetable oils replace animal fats in soaps and foods.
A refugee church near Austin Friars in London along with a chapel crypt at Canterbury cathedral housed Huguenots since a charter by Queen Elizabeth. Weavers among the refugees used part of the crypt for looms for many years despite periodic cathedral attempts to remove them.
Practically all cigarette paper is produced in this country. The so called rice paper is in fact made from flax and hemp trimmings not rice. The fibers are ground to a fine dust, washed, pulped and rolled into thin sheets to produce the light paper used worldwide.
Diller high school plans a home game against Plymouth on December 13 and a return at Plymouth on January 17. Local notes mention Glenn Blauser driving a Ford roadster and Thanksgiving with Fairbury relatives. A Mrs Wagner’s mother is slowly improving at home in rural Arkansas. A brief farming listing references Holstein cows Jersey heifers and a note from E M Crocker. A request seeks news from a sister of Mrs Robert Logsdon formerly of Shickley Nebraska.
Dr Bauguess writes from Diller Nebraska to Frank Pearce in Detroit sharing news of buying a new home and asking for a record to be sent to 8241 Mary Grove Drive. He recalls meeting Cornelius Bradley and Gertrude Diller and mentions Rock Island business ties and pleasant memories of Detroit.
A psychologist posed a number between five and twelve and a color request to 20 readers including clerks and journalists. Sixteen answered with seven and blue, suggesting luck favors seven and blue as defaults. The observer notes this predictable pattern and invites readers to try it on friends.
A young man in love waits at a meeting corner for his beloved and learns she is late. He calmly notes she was to arrive at six while it is just after six. She protests but he reveals he has waited since the previous night, prompting a quiet misunderstanding about the date.
A dialogue reveals a dispute over love letters allegedly burned by a man named Jack. A woman denies burning them, claiming he burned all letters before sealing them, prompting a sharp exchange and a claim of foolishness. The exchange hints at a domestic quarrel centered on mislaid correspondence.
A fragmented reprint discusses Diana Artemis as goddess of birth and domestic animals. It cites twin births as an omen and notes Artemis Diana’s temperamental guardianship and punitive responses to insults. It attributes lore to the virgin huntress and connects twin calves to her sensitivities.
The passage ponders who starts schoolyard rhymes and how they spread globally. It links ancient folklore to modern ditties, noting they travel without written records, surviving like old minstrel and storyteller traditions before printing.
A social hint suggests a girl may meet her future husband at a party by wearing a borrowed unseen garment. The idea is that the familiar cue could spark recognition and romance leading toward marriage.
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