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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1915
Page
3
A historical sketch recalls Captain Josiah Champion famed for daring shipboard lightening of cargo to save a vessel, noting his clock and cheese losses and crew obedience. It then highlights naval air mechanics who wade into icy dawn waters to maneuver seaplanes, performing hazardous tasks with steel resolve.
A small ancestral camel Stenomylus hitchcock from the lower Miocene of Nebraska is now in the British Museum geology department. Prof F B Loomis of Amherst College discovered a herd of these diminutive camels destroyed by a local accident. Stenomylus is remarkably slender and agile with deep crowned molars, suited for hard dry grasses on open plains, more so than other North American camels of the era.
A letter reveals the couple stored wedding gifts in a cellar barrel after initially considering a safe deposit vault. The items were kept ready for use while avoiding formal storage.
Dr Seymour Taylor, renowned British specialist, calls rheumatism the most dangerous disease faced by doctors and notes that 75 percent of young acute rheumatism patients have diseased tonsils. He adds that rheumatism in children often leads to mitral stenosis, the common crippling heart valve condition.
The passage notes record long sentences by Mme Peggy and Dumas and compares them to Gibbon and Johnson. It cites a Jeremy Taylor line of 302 words from Day of Judgment as possibly the longest in English.
A couple discuss the baby resembling the father and the wish to name him, with warm exchange about the christening and affection. The wife reveals finding a very becoming hat costing 25 dollars and asks if she should buy it, in a snippet from the Chicago Record.
An amused exchange unfolds as a husband departs on a business trip promising daily letters, while his wife reveals she burned the prewritten notes, forcing him to start anew and prove his devotion to her.
The passage states Ike Gilberg, described as not fairly well satisfied with the country, was born in Russia.
The article explains tuberculosis origin of the term from tuber to tubercle and defines the disease. It notes historical names for forms, rejects heredity as the primary cause, and states contagion arises from tubercle bacillus under poor sanitary conditions.
Locust swarms this year caused serious damage to olive trees across Syria while discussions continue on whether politeness yields larger dividends as a financial or social investment.
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