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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1907
Page
3
Nellie Burt endures a hard day of fatigue and sharp mood as she clashes with her husband Charley over work and care for their baby. A scaffold accident injures him lightly, prompting reflection and a renewed, patient love, ending in gratitude and reconciliation.
In Centerville New Jersey a starving tramp drops a sandwich and saves two drowning boys from the Morris canal. The grateful father offers work and lodging as thanks, and the hero, nicknamed Dusty Roads or Weary Willie, refuses praise while continuing his journey.
The piece lists city nicknames: Duluth as the Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas, North Adams as the Tunnel City, Pekin as the Celestial City, Racine as the Bell City, Lowell as the Shoe City, and Holyoke as the Paper City, with brief notes on why each name fits.
Minnie, a well behaved girl, refuses to eat parts of her egg. Her mother insists the egg is fine and asks her to eat it all. Minnie then questions if she must eat the beak as well, signaling growing stubbornness in a playful domestic scene.
A recent census of the St Johns road workhouse in London counted 1,613 inmates, with 1,150 aged over 60. Among them 60s to 70s numbered 486, 70s to 80s 511, 80s to 90s 159, 90s to 100s 11, and one inmate was aged 101.
A vivid description portrays the flea as pestiferous and piratical, stronger than any creeping insect. The narrator humorously notes its bites can spur a lazy man to action, likening the flea to Samson among insects.
A terse remark asks about the fate of a man who has neither specified condition nor remedy, contrasting his plight with those who are deemed satisfactory or improving. The statement implies concern over wellbeing and unclear status.
News from Constantinople reports Mohemd Ali Bey chosen as Turkish minister to the United States. Ambassador Leishmann relayed that the Porte asked if he would be acceptable, the department answered affirmatively, and the minister is expected in Washington with Roosevelt's return.
Washington concerns over unclaimed and destroyed money orders reveal millions held by the government as suspense funds. The article cites a German nurse who destroyed orders, a woman who burned orders thinking they were receipts, and the broader system of loss and duplicate payments. It notes reforms to pay duplicates on proof of loss and the long time some claims remain valid. It ends with a report on federal collaboration with coastal states for geological surveys starting in 1907.
The discussion showed state led work in New Jersey and Maryland completed while Alabama work is far advanced. North Carolina Georgia Alabama and Mississippi have coastal plain projects and Georgia and Alabama water resources reports exist. National surveys focus on underground water in Virginia and North Carolina and Florida phosphate deposits. If plans hold, field work in Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Florida will finish in 1907 and Georgia Alabama Mississippi in 1908.
The Interstate Commerce Commission releases the nineteenth annual statistical report for the year ending June 30 1906. It records total railway capital at 14 570 421 478 with 67 936 per mile and 33 percent of stock paying no dividends. Net earnings reached 788 887 896 while passengers carried topped 977 607 838 and freight 1 641 374 219 tons, with 10 617 killed and 97 706 injured.
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