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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1923
Page
2
The article argues that American farming, with over two million trucks needed and millions of miles of roads underused, will drive a shift to roadmaking as the nation’s premier business. It cites farm value, trucking costs, and government data to claim roads should become a major political and economic priority.
The piece argues federal tax exemptions for publicly owned property would drain public treasuries and force budget rewrites or new income sources. It cites 1921 railway taxes of 275 million dollars, with 37.2 million to the federal government and 237.95 million to state and local governments, and notes 1922 taxes projected near 304 million, with per mile tax rising from 681 to 1,223 since 1916.
New York led health legislation in recent months with measures in foods and drugs tuberculosis child welfare and municipal health. States like Arizona Iowa Minnesota Montana Nebraska North Dakota Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Wisconsin and Washington enacted laws on physical education health inspection milk supply and infant welfare strengthening state health boards and expanding teacher training and school health courses.
Mansfield of Northampton Massachusetts found a new twenty dollar bill on a Springfield sidewalk before a theater performance. He gave it to a theater lobby woman who contacted the owner and later received a letter with a returned twenty dollar check after friends were checked.
Excavation on Julius Reuss’s farm near Belleville Illinois uncovers a mastodon skeleton with tusks measuring 1 foot long and 6 inches thick. The teeth are ten inches long and five inches wide and a unusually large thigh bone fragment was found. The find lies about 800 feet from the residence and is believed to be 10,000 years old. The University of Illinois will likely send anthropologists to supervise the dig.
Elmer Gorsuch, a truck farmer near Concordia, Kansas, chased by a five to six foot snake described as cobra headed and fast, which struck at him and then pursued him twice. The creature remained uncaptured as volunteers failed to materialize for the hunt.
Franklin T. Pearce serves as editor, publisher, and owner of the Diller Record of Diller Nebraska. The 1923 sworn statement notes no mortgagees or security holders. The document was sworn on October 1 1923 with a commission expiring October 20 1925.
First published notice in Jefferson County Nebraska 1923 concerns the estate of Henrietta Powell deceased. J Smithiller petitions to prove last will and testament and grant administration to executor J Diller. Hearing set for November 6 1923 at 9 AM in county court with three weeks of publication. Louis J Nutzman County Judge Heasty Barnes attorneys for estate.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th of Oct 1923 by S C Hutchinson and F Hatzel Directors. Notary Public Frank T Pearce commissioned until Mar 5 1924. Financial figures listed include 133 61 3 300.00 230.00 1 374.95 totaling 58 404.29 5 062.56 470.038 346 911.34.
The fragment records entries for capital stock and surplus funds with figures for deposits and paid in surplus. It lists a year-ago deposit total and a current deposit amount of 233,075.14 with an additional noted value 37,823.95.
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