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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1923
Page
4
S. F. R. Duhrkop pastor announces S. S. in English at 9 30 Confessional in English at 10 30 Worship and Communion in English at 10 45 at St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Rev W F Clark leads Sunday school at 10 00 and morning service at 11 00 with Rev Heyhoe conducting the morning service The evening service will be announced from the pulpit Attendance at Sunday school was 109 Steele City 110 Weather and roads are fine The pastor urges readers to attend and bring someone along next Sunday for a potential record turnout
Pastor E E Pengelly urges all members to attend a Sunday all day meeting at DeWitt with Devotion and Evangelism topics discussed by about twenty pastors and seven or eight laymen. Dinner in basement, social time, afternoon program, vital business, Sunday school at 10 AM, sermons on The Common Temptation and Destiny.
Report cards for the first six weeks were issued. The inter-class track meet is set for Friday at Diller ball park with seniors and freshmen planning. The state teachers’ association meets in Lincoln from Oct 31 to Nov 8. Also noted are honor roll names Clarence Findling, Lynn Waggoner, and Mildred Mayborn with 90 averages, and various class activities, absences, and upcoming exams.
Edwin Weertz Ray Casper Wendell Fanders and Maxine Patton are named. Sixth graders study the Middle Atlantic states while fifth graders study France. Marian Diller brought stones collected at Barneston farm. Eighth graders won the spelling contest and are writing to the Agriculture Department for bulleting.
Eudora Udora name origins trace to Greek myth where a Nereid named Eudora joined the sea realm alongside Amphitrite and Thetis. Lapis lazuli is linked as her talisman, said to guard against low mood and fevers with Monday as her wacky day and lucky number.
The article describes how people carry and move their hands while walking. It notes a drooping left hand with forearm across the body and a vertically carried right forearm. hands twirl items like eyeglasses. It claims such individuals are often strong characters needing direction.
Birds flock to the St. Simonds Island lighthouse off southern Georgia drawing thousands of birds. A large steel net is installed around the top to protect the 2200 candle power light in a 104 foot tower from damage. Keeper C O Svenson notes migrating birds fly into the net and many die believing the light offers safety, while the lighthouse ignores game laws.
A taxidermist H C Hopkins collects and displays a wide range of birds found around a lighthouse area. He explains killing some injured birds to end their suffering and recounts numerous species including warblers, thrushes, cuckoo, night herons, gulls, owls, and several ducks observed or gathered for his collection.
The captain enters the officers kitchen and demands obedience over dessert and bananas. A new private answers yes sir but refuses to admit the missing fruit, highlighting discipline and humor in a military setting.
The article traces the word pirate origins from the Dutch vrijbuster to freebooter and filibuster, via French and Spanish routes. It notes buccaneers split into boucaniers filibustiers and habitans, detailing roles in piracy along the Spanish Main.
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