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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
4
United States court recent decision in an automobile damage case held pedestrians have the right of way at street crossings. Drivers must keep their cars under control and wait to avoid injuring pedestrians crossing streets.
Mead Advocate notes Hon Chas H Sloane is resting at his Geneva home after hard duties in Washington City. The Fourth Nebraska District voters praise his faithful House service and expect his election as a foregone conclusion regardless of a campaign.
An editorial from the Deshler Rustler argues drunken driving should be harsher with license revocation after first offense and at least one year in prison after a second conviction. The piece condemns those who deliberately drink and drive as either criminals at heart or dangerously careless.
County Supt. Henry Abrams issues a letter to teachers officers and patrons urging cooperation for school success. The county has about 6000 school age children with an average daily attendance near 4000.
The excerpt urges using kind words about neighbors and offering help when needed. It emphasizes that lightening another's burden reflects back as echoes to oneself, reminding readers to practice generosity and refrain from gossip.
The Nebraska supreme court upholds a law eliminating the coroner's office. The act takes effect the first Thursday after the first Tuesday in January. County attorneys and sheriffs will perform coroner duties thereafter.
The passage ponders how the eldest daughter's early marriage influences younger sisters. It suggests peers may feel pressure to match or exceed a family example, delaying their own unions until later life.
A reflective note on how appreciation by wives for their husbands grows from effort, suggesting a beautiful standard born of labor and gratitude in relationships.
A reflective query ponders if the bygone practice of a grocer affixing a potato to the coal can spout could return. It invokes nostalgia for simple commerce and shared community quirks from earlier times.
A person with cold feet typically hurries away from danger, seeking safety.
General Sakharoff of the Czar's Army was lauded by Lieutenant General Sakharoff, a top Brusi loffs staff officer, for the capture of Brody in Galicia. He earned a czar’s personal thanks for quelling the Boxer uprising in Manchuria and played a notable role in the war with Japan.
A remarkable geologic feature near Pachuca Mexico shows a mountain clad in five to twelve foot stone columns like a palisade. The perpendicular face displays spikes that resemble a natural fort, while mining workings nearby reveal entirely different formations.
The Chicago Journal recounts how Bogoslof first emerged from the Bering Sea after a 17 year cycle of eruptions. A second island appeared near the original in 1882, followed by a third in 1906. Subsequent eruptions doubled its area and others formed along the Aleutian arc, turning the region into a sea bird and seal breeding ground.
Professor John Erakine at Chautauqua reads Emerson on civilization and waves. He argues an engine could harvest tidal power to run factories and move wagons, allowing mankind to hitch its wagon to a star.
Philadelphia Bulletin cites twelve unknown workers who thwarted a stolen hand car on Lackawanna tracks near Paterson. A towerman at Paterson Junction opened a switch sending the car down an embankment just as an express approached, saving twelve lives and sparing twelve households from mourning. The article extols the silent integrity of railroad workers as essential to modern safety.
An editorial contrasts U S boundaries with European ones noting most U S lines run north south or east west and follow rivers or ridges while European borders bend and curl. It argues modern practice favors straight lines and practicality, reflecting a geostrategic tension between old world whimsy and new world efficiency.
A Lapford farmer, guided by three dreams, encounters a lantern lit grave where a digger fires at him. The farmer then confronts a maidservant who reveals her fiancé planned a final meeting at 2 am to show her something alarming. The scene centers on a grave robbery attempt and a linked domestic dispute.
A brief exchange portrays Ameon and a mechanic arguing over Ameon’s driving skills. The fat plumber and a thin carpenter joke about Ameon’s attempt at piloting a second hand automobile.
A witty London Tit-Bita exchange recalls a murder acquittal on insanity. The barrister notes the client’s father spent two years in an asylum, but the point was not explored due to time.
A science note states that Quicksilver has a density about thirteen and a half times that of water. It explains the material’s heaviness relative to an equal volume of water and notes implications for buoyancy and handling.
Regional livestock prices show higher quotes for lambs and feeders. Cattle receipts around 12 900 head with steady to higher bids, hogs at 8 90 to 9 25, sheep and lambs strong with good demand from packers and buyers in South Omaha Nebraska.
A social evening features a woman singing for guests. A guest questions who she is and a meek man explains she sings well but needs better music. He reveals he is the author of the song. The scene ends with humorous misrecognition.
The village of Willer in Jefferson County Nebraska proposes estimated expenditures for all purposes for the fiscal year from late April 1916 to late April 1917. The items include General, Light, Water, Interest, and Building and Maintenance funds, totaling thousands of dollars, as approved by the village board.
Ordinance 80.88 levies taxes for 1916 in Diller Jefferson County Nebraska. Five mills fund general operations and lighting, five mills for the light plant and street lighting, four mills for water plant maintenance, six and a half mills for water bond interest, and one mill for building and extension. Approved August 15, 1916 by SR Starr, chairman.
First published Sept 29 and last Oct 20 notice to Roy T Barber defendant in Jefferson County Nebraska. Leona M Barber plaintiff seeks absolute divorce for two years abandonment and failure to provide, and asks for custody of four year old Dean Barber. Answer required by Nov 18 1916. Heasty Barnes attorneys represent plaintiff.
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