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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1923
Page
2
A critique of the labor capital slogan that pits workers against wealth. The piece argues that any saver or small investor is a capitalist and questions the view that denying others the fruits of capital benefits the nation. It warns that erasing incentives to save harms American progress.
Nationwide concern over grade crossing crashes prompts North Chicago Illinois and Waukegan Wisconsin to require all vehicles to stop ten feet from crossings and ensure the way is clear before crossing. Violations carry a fine from five to two hundred dollars per offense. A Yellowstone geyser could reach two thousand six feet, with talk of naming it after Senator Johnson.
Two men walk a May dawn in a forest. One sees harmony and calls it design. The other rails at human misery and clings to a creed. Dawn blooms as Day arrives while the creedless man proclaims I am Design.
Nicholas Grindstaff, a reclusive resident of Iron Mountain in Johnson County, Tennessee, died alone in a crude hut after years living off the land. His faithful dog guarded his body for days before friends from nearby counties laid him to rest on the mountain summit. A monument is planned in his memory.
James White Young, a Cherokee Indian, is described as a probable heir to a large Oklahoma fortune. He lives on a farm near Plattsburg, Missouri, according to Red Cross secretary Mrs. Manor Fry. Traced to Nashville, where a wandering group abandoned him as a child twenty five years ago. He said he would share wealth with those who helped him if he is rich.
Mrs Rebecca Seifferman of Egg Harbor New Jersey was jailed for 90 days after her husband claimed she consumed a quart of paregoric each day and spent their money on the drug.
Mrs J L Peck minister's wife of Thornville Ohio saw a five foot black snake on the second story window ledge peering in through the lock. She called for help and neighbors gathered with tools. A neighbor knocked it loose with a fishing pole and another decapitated the snake with a hoe.
Premier Baldwin told the House of Commons that England has spent 29,115,000 pounds on occupying Constantinople and nearby areas since 1918. He said this does not include extra taxpayer costs and estimated the additional cost at 16,090,000 pounds. Allied governments will forego claims against Turkey for occupation costs.
A merchant and a parson play golf with the clergyman often losing then gloomily muttering about preaching the winner's funeral sermon. The merchant teases that day will come and the parson retorts that it will be the other way around.
Tsinan fu sits at the land end of the Shantung railway. A crowded walled city with gateways and powerful past, it uses wheelbarrows for most freight and even passenger traffic. Workers endure heavy strain as coolies haul loads, with mules only rarely aiding and a constant rhythm of bustling street life.
In Géluhausen a burned electric bulb factory left ruins later used to pave roads. As platinum prices rose, diggers mined the roads for specks of metal, earning as much as 80,000 marks daily. The factory owners also found platinum in the old ruin enough to cover rebuilding costs and profit.
The Washington Star notes that American Indian music is entirely vocal with no instrumental borrowings. Most songs lack words or syllables carry the tones, and there is little fixed pitch as singers improvise from their natural voice and mood.
A group of impaired children including Pauline Higgins and Marian Levin, under a surgeon ordered water cure, drowned in the surf at Rockaway Beach. Thirty other children were present. nurses pulled the bodies from the water but all were dead.
The first modern atlas was created by Abraham Ortelius, who died in Antwerp. His Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, published in 1570, included about 100 maps and went through five revisions. The term atlas was later popularized by Girard Mercator, a fellow Dutch geographer.
An office ad invites readers to make the Jefferson County Abstract Office their headquarters in the County Seat, near the First National Bank in Fairbury Nebraska.
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