Honor Roll and School Notes From Diller Public Schools
Students named on the high school and grade school honor rolls for the first six weeks. Teachers attend the Nebraska Teachers Association in Lincoln and Omaha with listed attendees. Halloween decorations, class updates in English, Latin, science, and history, and junior service league officers announced. Night school planned for American Education Week November 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diller
Nebraska Teachers Association
Lincoln
Omaha
Miss Raymond
McCreight
Mares
Davis
Ose
Miss Hansen
Lyle
Schindler
Association
Ade
Gounod
Etry
Africa
Junior Service League
Mary Beckwith
Lucille Findling
Billy Milowy
Calle Mercado La Paz Market Street Amid Colorful Clamor
In La Paz Bolivia Calle Mercado climbs from Plaza San Francisco and hosts stalls of llama skins pottery and Inca relics. Gamblers patrons llamas and Indians mingle with vendors locals and dancers under vivid ponchos and hats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calle Mercado
la Paz
Bolivia
San Francisco
West Coast
Olive the Ancient Fruit and Its Good Taste
An overview of olives as a 4000 year old crop symbolizing peace. It notes ancient use of olive branches, Pompeii pickle olives, and modern production in sunny lands led by Spain. It mentions curing methods kept secret, and that green olives in glass are common in grocers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pompeii
Spain
Italy
Greece
Africa
California
Time belt boundaries described by rail clock guidelines
The Interstate Commerce Commission sets railroad time standards, but city adherence varies. Eastern belt runs Atlantic coast to near Toledo and Atlanta, central belt extends to Mandan and Dodge City, while Mountain and Pacific divide near Idaho and Oregon with Utah and Arizona boundaries noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Atlantic Ocean
Toledo
Ohio
Norton
Johnson City
Mandan
N.D
Pierre
N. D
McCook
Neb
Dodge City
Kan
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Salmon River
Idaho
Oregon
Salt Lake City
Utah
Parker and Yuma
Ariz
Defective Lineage Warns Of Reproductive Dangers
A Detroit News writer argues that inheritance follows a seed and egg model with both positive and negative outcomes. The piece warns that criminal and feeble-minded traits can combine to produce a growing cycle of degeneracy and social costs across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit News
Porcupine Defense Debunked Shooting Quills Myth
The article explains that porcupines do not shoot quills. Quills detach when the animal is shaken or brushed by objects. When threatened the porcupine thrashes with its tail, embedding quills in attackers, leading to the false belief it can fire quills. John Burroughs notes the tail is the weapon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longfellow
John Burroughs
The Twelve Tribes of Israel and Dispersal History
The twelve tribes descend from Jacob's sons Reuben Simeon Levi Judah Dan Naphtali Gad Asher Issachar Zebulun Joseph Benjamin. Levi had no inheritance. Ephraim and Manasseh named two tribes. Dispersal began with Babylonian exile about 600 B C and continued to 70 A D under Titus after Jerusalem's fall.
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Israel
Jacob
Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Dan
Naphthali
Gad
Asher
Issachar
Zebulun
Joseph
Benjamin
Canaan
Lot
Ephraim
Manasseh
Titus
Jerusalem
Temple
Palestina
Detroit
Newa
Maple Syrup and Sugar Industry Then and Now
The early New England settlers tapped maples following native methods, tapping gashes in trees, to harvest sap. Over time they refined techniques, but the basic evaporating process remains similar, with modern equipment replacing older bark containers and logs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Virginia
Kentucky
Overhead Expenses Definition and Inclusions
The term overhead covers general plant expenses beyond direct labor and materials. It includes salaries of officials clerical staff indirect labor office costs traveling sales expenses interest insurance legal costs care of plant and often depreciation.
Worm-Catching Plants Capture Tiny Worms Under Microscope
An official of the bureau of plants industry describes plants so small they require microscopes to be seen. They form a miniature jungle with feelers that grab passing worm-like animals and release a chemical to quickly dispose of the prey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Plants Industry
Articles of Denigonaies for The Protestant Orphans Home
Trustees Scott R. Merrell Calvin L. Waggoner and J. Smith Diller organize a Nebraska nonprofit The Protestant Orphans Home to receive bequests under Andrew H Colman will. They name a 99 year term from Oct 15 1933 with offices in Diller Jefferson County and outline governance, property investments, and indebtedness limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott R. Merrell
Fairbury
Nebraska
Calvin. L. Wager Miller
J. Smith Miller
Diller
Jefferson County
Andrew H. Colman
Scott
R.merrell
Calvin L. Waggoner
J. Smith Diller
Calvin L. Waer
J. Smith
Notary Acknowledges Waggoner Agreement Signed
Acknowledgement by Alee L. Waggoner and J. Surth Druver acknowledges the act and deed for the purpose stated. Subscribed in presence and sworn on October 18, 193? by John M. Hartigan Notary Public with commission through June 3, 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott R. Merrell
Alee L. Waggoner
J. Surth Druver
John M. Hartigan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rachel Diller
Laurice Diller
Helen Frisbie
Elmer Krebs
Shirley Rae Garrels Inn
Gene Nicholson
Stanley Diller
Mary Lou Thompson
Marilyn Miller
Denice Anderson
Betty Grader
Mary Maree Bristol
Neil Andrews
Leila Broadstone
Duaine Clark
Elizabeth Hafer Darrel Beck
Julia Diller
Richard Millar
Jean Bond
Beatrice Dunn
Beulah Dunn
Bonnie Thompson
Yvonne Nicholson
Richard Miller
Lloyd Lamb
Betty Hurst
Lloyd Green
Elva Farrow
Dwaine Clark
Elizabeth Hafer
Avis Johnson
Russel Madden
Frank A. Houston
Fairbury,Nebr
Banaka
Loschen
Fairbury, Near
Edw
B. Ackerman
Optometrist
Golden Rule Bldg
Blue Valley Credit Association
Gage and
Beatrice
Nebr
Fairbury, Nebr
Dr.o
G. Diehl
Dr. McLeran
No. 6Th St
Ruyle
Beatrice, Nebr
Court St. Office
Gage County
THE
Lincoln Star
Daily & Sun
North Kans
Diller Record Office
Monroe Davis & Son Abstracters
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