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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1923
Page
3
The text notes farmers are busy gathering in the best corn crop in the locality for several years. It also urges readers to examine stoves before cold weather and order repairs early from Waggoner Bros. The remarks contain miscellaneous advice and aphorisms about secrecy and love.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Piveral move from Hebron to Exeter after spending most of the week visiting Diller relatives and friends during their relocation period.
Beatrice Motor Co Ford Dealer Beatrice Nebraska offers a 1917 Ford touring in good running order with good tires and a new radiator at a bargain price of $60.00. Contact Beatrice Motor Co for details.
Miss Hazel Sparks and Miss Elizabeth McCown hosted a six o clock dinner Sunday evening for Mr Herber Barber Mr James Hays Mr Adolph Bevan and Mr and Mrs Charley Sparks and daughter Vivian. The article notes that the agricultural depression period taught farmers to maintain machinery better to extend its life and reduce wasteful expenses.
Orchardists near Cashmere Washington report porcupines raid orchards at night harming ripe apples and seeking a bounty. Although vegetarian, the animals feed on fruit late in the season and are hard to deter. Authorities consider remedies to protect crops.
Washington reports that over 13,002,427 motor vehicles are registered in the United States with 11,571,181 private passenger cars. Through midyear 1923 the six month total reached 764,052 registrations, matching postwar growth trends. Gasoline taxes totaling 8,607,000 in the first half fund highway improvements, with 5,000,000 allocated to public road work and more expected as states enact new levies.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Ballard of Beatrice visited here Sunday with his sister Miss L. A. Ballard.
A new aerial story by P G Wodehouse titled Three Men and a Maid will be started in the Regord next week.
Mr and Mrs Lou Caldwell and Mr and Mrs Smith of Swanton were callers at the editor s domicile Sunday afternoon.
Beatrice Motor Company Ford Dealer offers a 1919 Ford Touring in good condition for 95 dollars. Interested buyers contact Beatrice Neb. dealer.
Herman Schroeder brother of Mrs. John Mathias of this city died last Friday at Hanover Kansas. Mrs. Mathias and her children Roy Mathias of near Ellis and Mrs. Grace Fasnacht of Blue Springs attended the funeral there Monday.
Mayor S C Moser and Dr S B Viers with O C Hutchinson and Geo Riddle visited Maryville Kansas Friday to request retention of Mr Box House as local manager. The Krug Light Co gave a respectful hearing and granted the request. Since then Hollie bought a home in Diller and will become a permanent resident.
Washington Department of Agriculture notes wheat at 89 cents a bushel would net 29.66 per ton for farmers, showing feed value for poultry higher than selling. Feeding wheat to poultry keeps surplus off the market and stabilizes prices while wheat is deemed less nutritive than dedicated poultry feed.
At daybreak William Itzen of Geneva feeds horses when a hawk chases his chickens. He shoots and kills the hawk after it catches a hen. The band on the hawk requests notice to Washington D C where the hawk was released as part of a migratory study by scientists.
A brief note reports the first real killing front since leaves have started falling, with no further details. Other items mention Chas Brandt returning from a trip to Illinois and Missouri and birth announcements from Odell.
Sunday morning R W Green wife and baby Norma Frances of this city had a narrow escape in a car crash near Frankfort Kansas. Green was driving to visit Mrs Sarah Witty mother of Mrs Green and her brother Fred near Vliets Kansas. The car toppled into a ditch injuring Eva Green who suffered a severe cut from shattered windshield glass. the baby was unharmed. The accident occurred while Green glanced at the baby and the Ford sedan sustained major damage but repairs were made and the family continued their visit after leaving Mrs Green and the infant in Kansas.
A Christmas gift proposal highlights The Youth's Companion offering 52 issues in 1924 plus 1923 issues and the 1924 Home Calendar. It contrasts enduring value with perishable candy gifts and notes subscription price of $3.00 and mailing address in Boston.
An early 20th century ad promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a local remedy with an ointment and a tonic. It asserts relief for catarrh and systemic cleansing through the bloodstream, credited to J. & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
In Rome the papal major domo enforces strict Vatican dress standards after a deputation of 150 women was turned away for low necklines and short sleeves. Visitors must wear thick, opaque dresses covering arms to wrists and necks to the chin, reach ankle length, avoid roses, and limit rings. Three examinations precede entry with a blue mark and red cross on invitation cards. makeup is banned, hair dye allowed if not peroxide.
Escanaba Mich engineer Philip B Sullivan of the Peninsula division will complete fifty four years of railroading on the twenty first of this month. His career included a dramatic Sept. ten seventeen seventy one incident when a train braked and plunged toward the Chicago River after a tug toppled a bridge, yet most of the cars remained on track.
Chicago court action outlines six husbands in the Mrs Minnie Genasnek estate settlement. Five husbands are divorced and one is missing, complicating the division of the deceased woman's property with six men named as heirs.
Washington reports that state issued soldier bonuses are not taxed under federal income law. The Treasury department rules bonuses are gifts, making them non taxable for recipients.
A compact exchange shows a dignified user accepting a final ruling to reuse letters. The dialogue centers on whether to return correspondence and confirms the decision as final.
Mrs Grubbridge George complains as George jokes about a putt not a drive. The exchange shows their witty domestic interaction.
Dialogue excerpt shows a character expressing worry over mistakes and waistline fit, with Bridget suggesting borrowing dresses. The scene hints at domestic humor or social stress within the Boaton Tran script.
Miss Johnson Melindy Jackson proclaims a long line of blue blood in her veins while Miss Tomson Well asserts her female line has washed by hand for ten generations. The dialog reflects a playful social claim in a rural setting.
A playful line from the Louisville Courier Journal features a Western senator claiming a bill will come before Congress after a character notes the sun rises in the coat. The exchange captures local newspaper humor.
A nine year old girl is described as a successful writer of popular songs and many works are reportedly heard by others. The remark underscores remarkable early achievement in music composition.
Mrs Stouter asks how you managed to reduce while Mrs Newslim says they moved to a smaller apartment to save space and weight.
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