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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1924
Page
2
The piece argues price levels for staples are at rock bottom and further cuts would force losses or wage reductions. It cites clothing materials like wool and cotton, freight costs, and textiles, plus building materials and steel, warning that waiting for cheaper goods will backfire as profits shrink and wages stay high.
The article argues that motor vehicles are no longer luxuries but necessities for farmers in Nebraska. It notes farmers own a large share of vehicles, with eighty-five percent of farmers owning autos and many farms averaging more than one per precinct. Autos expand farm social life, reducing isolation as wives travel and neighbors visit, embodying the idea to get acquainted with neighbors.
The article notes Arthur Brisbane as a wealthy editor and socialist linked to Hearst papers. It cites his proposals to repeal guaranteed railroad returns and to have the government guarantee six percent for farmers, while disputing claims about railroad ownership by the very rich.
A survey of Illinois farms shows stock sold from purebred bull herds brought twice the value of stock from scrubs and grade bulls. The study notes purebred sires boost first generation offspring and overall herd quality, urging farmers to invest in high quality bulls for better returns and pay.
Washington experts report plants can bloom under artificial colored light. Dr. W W Garner H A Allard and R A Steinberg show day length governs blooming cycles, with short day and long day responses found across nearly 200 plant varieties.
The article describes experiments where one branch received light while another was shaded. Plants fed from the same soil grew differently, showing light exposure drives budding. Electric light could substitute for daylight in extending the day length, with mid day sun reaching high foot-candle levels, while total darkness required bright electric light to induce growth.
The article describes pearls and their sources, noting principal fisheries in Ceylon Gulf of Mannar and ancient Persian Gulf. It lists pearl oysters and freshwater mussels across Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Sulu archipelago, northeastern Borneo, New Guinea, Australia. It explains divers work, oysters rotting, and raises artificial pearls in France Germany and Italy.
Prometheus taught humanity fire and many arts, shaping civilization. He created man from clay and, to grant life, stole fire and received punishment from Zeus with eternal liver-eating, later ended by Hercules freeing him.
In 1888 Miss Delia Bacon argued that Lord Francis Bacon penned the plays. English scholar William H. Smith and Nathaniel attempted to counter with The Great Cryptogram aiming to prove Shakespeare authored the works.
A quotation extols a person who perseveres when others falter and advances despite obstacles. It proclaims that a mindset that rejects can't or give up guarantees eventual victory against any opposition.
A needle sharp advice from Popular Science Monthly outlines preventing rust on tools and precision instruments by immersing them briefly in a kerosene benzine solution with paraffin. After entry into crevices the items are removed and set aside to allow benzine to evaporate, leaving protection.
A excerpted quote discusses how each generation misreads freedom as newly earned and worries the next lacks it. It contrasts perceived gains with a cyclic doubt about true, lasting liberty across eras.
One of the rarest seashells named Glory of the Sea resembles an unfolding rosebud. Only twelve to fourteen specimens are in collections. In 1888 three were found by a British scientist on a Philippine coral reef, which a few weeks later was destroyed by an earthquake.
The entry details Charlies S. Stratton known as Tom Thumb, a famous American dwarf exhibited by P. T. Barnum in the United States and Europe. Born 1838 and died 1883, he stood two feet tall when first exhibited in 1842, weighed 16 pounds, and later measurements reached 81 inches then 40 inches.
The text notes that a well kept environment with fresh paint lifts mood and initiative. It argues that paint expresses happiness and thrift, and that people take on their surroundings, with morale improved by well painted property.
An Irishman looks into a chemist shop and sees drugs priced to attract buyers. He sighs that his luck is poor when he thinks I ought to be lucky. Published in Pearson's Weekly.
The unusual cargo unloaded from the Norwegian freighter Randsfjord arrived at Berlin and Hamburg zoos. Officials described the strange shipment as a rare exhibit for the public.
The passage portrays John Keats as a hearty, hard drinking figure rather than the delicate poet of legend. It notes his habit of applying cayenne pepper to his tongue and throat to savor the biting sensation of claret, describing his bold, uncultured persona.
A man told a magistrate in Southampton that in a quest to get a letter to New York he walked from Tottenham to Southampton and handed it to a slips steward he knew.
A quirky note recalls Francis Bacon as a self-medicating thinker who rode in an open coach with bare head during rain to seek what he called the benefit of irrigation.
The State of Nebraska Jefferson County probate notice for the estate of Daniel W Griswold deceased creditors must file claims for examination with the county judge in Jefferson County by January 4 1925 three months are allowed from October 1924 to present claims or be forever barred Dated August 28 1924 Louis J Sy city judge Bartiden Pov attys for estate
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