Diller Nebr Advertising Rates and Local Notes
Advertising rates are set at 6 cents per line per insertion with business locals run until ordered out and second class mail matter declared. A local obituary notes F G Haynes of North Carolina buried in a self-made coffin aged 80, and a weathered city commentary laments auto crashes on main highways. The Diller school reports two first graders and seven second graders this year.
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F. ‘G. ‘Haynes
North Carolina
Diller School
Road realignment near Fairbury and Harbine described
A planned highway project will shift route No. 3 north of Diller leaving Fairbury on 14th street, crossing the Rock Island main line at Jansen via a viaduct, and running north of Harbine. The new bed will be oil main line adjacent.
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Diller
Fairbury
14Th Street
Rock Island
Jansen
Harbine
Beatrice Chamber Leads Christmas Decoration Prizes
The Beatrice Chamber of Commerce announces prizes for Christmas decorations as the picnic season ends. The note suggests updating main street with new tree decorations and mentions missing items or an apparent theft.
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Beatrice Chamber of Commerce
Roadwork delays leave Boulder dam gravel unfinished
A message from the Commercial club road committee notes first hand information that ungraveled road south of town would be finished with new gravel by week’s end, but rain has left Diller boxed in by mud and the project incomplete.
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Boulder Dam
Diller
Englishman Drives Bluebird To 300 MPH On Salt Flats
Sir Malcomb Campbell of England achieves 301 337 official mph with the Bluebird on the Salt Lake salt beds. He says he will not race against time again until the record is beaten, warning that 300 miles per hour is dangerous for automobiles and suggesting he may retire from runs.
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Malcomb Campbell
England
Salt Beds
Salt Lake City
Utah
Preacher’s test of debts reveals a subscriber crowd
A minister ends a sermon by asking who is paying debts. Everyone stands except one emaciated man in last summer’s suit. He explains he is the newspaper’s subscriber. The crowd pauses for prayer.
Navy Bulletin recalls ships and heroic acts from history
The article notes the USS Vincennes as the first U.S. warship to circumnavigate, departing New York in 1926 and returning in 1830 via the Cape of Good Hope. It also mentions the Niagara’s role at Lake Erie, a $25 million Pennsylvania restoration, Navy letters of congratulations, a family enlisting in 1985, and destroyers named Jarvis and other historical acts.
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U. S
U. S. S. Vincennes
William Bolton Finch
New York
Cape of Good Hope
Commodore Perry
Lake Erie
Pennsylvania
Secretary of the Navy
Carol C. Cowdrey
Hill Street
Virden
Ill
Manley Valentine Cowdrey
Navy
St. Louis
U. S. S. Pennsylvania
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Jarvis
James. C. Jarvis
Vengeance
Spaniels in Hunting Dog Lineage and Royal Mentions
Maj Brice traces spaniels through history from Chaucer to Henry VIII records and Caius’s 1570 Treatise of English Dogs. The Cocking Spaniel becomes prominent for woodcock hunting in 1870, valued for usefulness, endurance, and hunting preference.
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Chaucer
Maj. Mitford Brice
Answers Magazine
Henry VIII
Caius
Caius College
Cambridge
Bermuda Coastal Foodways And Conch Horn Calls
Conch shells sound a roadside alert by Bermuda fish peddlers as wives rush out for seafood. Winter specials show spiny lobsters and large crawfish caught at night, with four foot antennae and prized meat. Hamlets and rock fish lead chowder menus with varied island recipes echoing New England influences.
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Islands
New England
West Highland White Terrier Breed Description
The West Highland white terrier is a small dog about 8 to 12 inches high at the shoulder and 14 to 18 pounds in weight. It features a long shaggy white coat 2 to 4 inches long, a dense undercoat, erect small pointed ears, medium dark hazel eyes set wide apart, and a black nose and feet pads. The breed is sturdy with a deep chest and powerful hindquarters, giving a hardy terrier appearance.
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West Highland
Taller in the Morning
A Pearsons Weekly excerpt explains how the spine changes height through the day. Cartilage discs between vertebrae compress under body weight, making you shorter in the evening and taller in the morning after rest. A grown man can gain half an inch or more.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Positron Described as Positive Electron Counterpart
The Chicago Tribune explains the positron as a distinct particle with the same mass as the electron but opposite electrical charge. It contrasts the electron’s negative charge with the positron’s positive charge.
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Chicago Tribune
Louisville Man Falls From Window While Sleepwalking
George Schurer of Louisville fell from a second story window while walking in his sleep but escaped injury.
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George Schurer
Louisville
Ferry engineer George Schemp logs 477250 crossings before retirement
George Schemp, a ferryboat engineer, crossed the Han river 477 250 times before his retirement. The large figure marks a long career with numerous crossings and service on the river transport line.
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George Schemp
Hanson River
Dark and Light of Moon Expressions Across Regions
The article notes regional differences in moon terminology. Some areas define light as the waxing period from new moon to full, and dark as the waning from full to new. Other regions equate light with moon visibility and dark with invisibility.
Ancient marriage proposal found in Anatolia
An archaeologists group reports a historic marriage proposal message from the widow of Tutankhamun to Hittite King Shuppiluliuma. The note requests sending a son to Egypt to become king, describing the widow as young and beautiful.
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German Institute of Archeology
Anatolia
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Shuppilulumash
Egypt
Tit- Bits Magazine
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Diller Record
A. M. Cavett
Martha B. Cavett
F. T. Pearce
Diller Nebr
Nebraska
Flordia
Gene Lockhart
Canada
the Navy
Edward W. Pickard
Congress
Bill
RFC Mortgage Co
Uncle Sam
Russia
Italy
Winant
James Moffett
J. Monroe Davis
Fairbury, Nebraska
Edw
B. Ackerman
Optometrist
Odell
General Hospital
E. Rice
M. D
Odell, Nebraska
Carl Schnuelle
Farmers Union Insurance Co
Omaha, Nebr
Astle
Elmer
Blue Valley
Credit Ass’n
Bilt
McCall’s
WOME
Tower Radio
Serenade
LA Pathfinder
Homes & Gardens
Pictorial
Needlecraft
aYr
ayYr
aYer
R.F.D
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