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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1903
Page
4
The Diller Record edited by Frank T. Pearce is a weekly Nebraska newspaper published in Diller. It lists office details in E. L. Loock's building and notes subscription terms, rates, and mailing policies for local readers.
A collage of items notes coal costs at two fifty per long ton in Colorado and questions a new motto in red letters. It remarks on war profits and powder makers, White House visits by dangerous cranks, whiskey consumption trends, Bristow’s title, and farmers adopting home telephones for farming communities.
Miss Lucille Mulhall, an 18 year old from Mulhall Oklahoma, won a steer roping contest with a 40 second time and a $1000 prize. The event drew cowboys and highlighted early prohibition candidate debate in Nebraska with court figures and university leaders named from York Brownville and Lincoln.
The government plans a comprehensive roster of soldiers from the federal and Confederate armies. When complete it will serve as a valuable historical resource and be published as a book. The article mentions a farmer and a man named Reuben as figures in town, contrasting tradition with the effort to document war service.
A man riding an electric vehicle claims he reached 125 mph with everything around him blurred. In another report a Pensacola jury indicted twenty two mob members for murder in the second degree for lynching a Black man.
Arrangements for a state spelling contest are made in connection with the State Teachers Association holiday program. Each district will hold a county contest and winners advance to the state competition. A prepared word list will ensure fairness across districts.
A nostalgic Cincinnati Enquirer column muses on the cyclical passage of seasons. It contrasts summer scenes with autumn harvests, noting pumpkins, ripe apples, bass from the woods pool, goldenrod, and quips about political candidates as signs fall has arrived.
A farm telephone will pay for itself by better market prices and saved trips to town. It delivers telegrams instantly, informs weather, orders repairs, and can summon a doctor quickly. It keeps family members in touch, deters burglars, and promises greater happiness and efficiency for farmers nationwide.
The Union Pacific forms a new department named The Bandit Hunters to defend the Overland Limited rail line. Armored moving train cars carry horses, provisions, a telegraph office, and a signal crew ready to pursue robbers toward Robber's Roost and Robbers Roost area. Arthur Porter of Wyoming, raised in Maryland, leads the bandit hunters after a career as a U S marshal and cattle-ranch work, tasked with coordinating patrols against train hold ups along the Red Desert region.
The Montana billionaire Senator William A Clark builds a white marble palace on Fifth Avenue at Seventy second Street with three private apartments for him and his two daughters. The design features a grand second floor salon, sculpture hall, music room, four roof gardens, a private theater, a conservatory, baths, gym, wine cellar, and a secret device to slide doors creating a 180 foot vista. Meals will be served magically without clatter.
A Franklin Matthews passage in The Worlds Work notes how a large cotton mill trust closed plants in New Hartford Connecticut last August and September, forcing about 1000 of 2300 residents to leave. Businesses, churches and schools faltered as real estate values dropped and idle power lay in mills bound for Alabama.
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