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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
4
Public notice from Diller Nebraska detailing second class mail status and advertising rates five cents per line with business locals charged per insertion. A satirical comment protests a Treasury leak over a 25 million dollar bid to acquire three small islands from the Danish treaty debate in 1916.
The article notes Dr. Condra will present two or three Nebraska films before the grandstand during evenings of September 4 through 7. It also advises the best times for entering and leaving school terms and cautions parents about entering first year pupils after the first month.
Committees from Omaha and Lincoln reached an agreement to push Nebraska's land bank claims at a meeting in the Commercial Club rooms, Omaha. Both cities will urge their claims and back the stronger case if one city gains an advantage, as Nebraska gains favorable publicity in the land bank campaign and awaits the Land Bank Board hearing in Omaha on September 18.
The president asks Congress for specific laws to prevent a strike by railroad workers on Labor Day. Brotherhood leaders plan a 7 a.m. walkout on Sept 4 with 400,000 members. Railroads refuse livestock and perishable freight after Sept 2 and warn of delays for passengers if trips are not completed by Sept 3. Railroads prepare to run trains with reinstated workers and reserves, while the union fund stands at 15.8 million and potential daily losses could reach 1.26 million if 400,000 walk out.
Book prices rise across current publications as publishers and retailers increase charges by 10 to 25 cents. Earlier 50 cent to 1 dollar titles now cost 60 cents to 1 dollar 25, while 1 to 2 dollar books rise by 25 cents. Publishers cite higher paper, leather, cloth, and ink costs up 50 to 100 percent in twelve months and warn further 10 to 20 percent increases may follow. They await end of the European war and new chemical supplies from Europe to stabilize material costs.
General Tasker H Bliss reports American troops in Mexico sheltering in combined adobe walls three feet high with U shaped dog tents on top creating roomier lodging. Grass stuffed sacks serve as beds and bedding.
In Baltimore the adopted white son of James L. Hitchens, a Negro, is said to receive about 100000 in estate. The athlete, James L. Lindemann by birth and James L. Hitchens Jr. by adoption, played football and basketball. He studied at Maryland Agricultural College briefly and at Baltimore City College for three years. Now 21, he is married.
Live stock prices from Union Stock Yards South Omaha Nebr August 30 1916 note a 10 15c drop for fat lambs and a steady to higher range for hogs and feeders. Demand from dressed beef buyers remained active with some top cattle at 10 50 while overall cattle prices showed irregular but steady to strong compared with last week. Sheep and feeder lambs also see a sharp top at 10 30 with lots delivering down to 10.00 while fat sheep held steady around 6 50 to 6 75 for ewes.
Market report lists prices for lamb feeders yearlings weth ers and ewes in various grades. Values range from 4.00 to 9.00 per unit with descriptors good fair and choice across categories.
Laura M. Hawley of Lockport is notified she will receive back pension from 1887, the year the Mexican war pension law passed. She will get $3,200 in a lump sum and $12 monthly for life. she learned of eligibility five years ago. Her husband died five years before the law was enacted.
Ashtabula Ohio case of Peter Walstrom heir to $30,000 who died of heart disease, attributed to overdrinking. His father in Stockholm left the money in trust until he gave up drinking, but Walstrom never received the funds.
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