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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1923
Page
3
A poem advises telephone users to be patient and courteous with central operators. It explains order of attention at the switchboard, slower long distance, and the human effort behind service, urging readers to avoid abuse and show restraint.
A brief notice lists the Jeff Co Fair set for September 18 through 21. It notes local attractions and activities. The text also references a whimsical tale of two imaginary lovers, Cupid and the stork, causing playful mischief.
A frame building on Fairbury's west square burned Sunday. Once a soft drink emporium, the structure was among the town's first buildings over fifty years ago.
A western daily runs the bold headline An Association for the Abolishment of Hay Fever Sufferers Is Now a Probability. The article offers no method of elimination and leaves readers to imagine whether execution or banishment is intended.
A Scottish parish minister, poorly paid, is promoted to prison chaplain in a large town. His congregation resents the loss and refuses to easily replace him, souring relations as his farewell sermon arrives. He preaches on the text I go to prepare a place for you.
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine will cure catarrh and deafness caused by catarrh with an ointment that relieves inflammation and restores normal speech. Sold by druggists for over four years. J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
The Jefferson county fair opens next Tuesday with Children’s Day planned for Wednesday. Frank Tucker plans to attend Kearney college next year while Miss Pearl Diller will study music at the Honor Institute in Kansas City. Carroll Diller and John Hilder visited with Dr and Mrs Will Weigel from Lincoln. Dr O C Diehl reports the birth of a 9 pound girl to Mr and Mrs A H Andrews near Hollenberg Kansas on the 11th. An unkind paragrapher calls for a political shake up elect Ford president.
Ben Henrichs brought in a sample of soybeans and plans to plant twenty-five acres in his corn field this year to feed hogs.
A mother questions her daughter after a late morning encounter while the daughter jokes that a visitor from Buenos Aires only came to flirt with the goldfish. The exchange captures a playful domestic moment.
Mr and Mrs Ed Giles formerly of Diller arrived with their car this week to visit friends in Red Oak where Mr Giles runs an implement business. Mrs Giles, formerly Sophia Johnson, may be remembered by that name by Diller acquaintances.
The passage notes prices in common goods and services including potatoes by bushel sugar by the pound coal by the ton railroad fare by the mile electric current and gas by meters telegraph messages by words labor wages by hours and telephone service by a fixed monthly rate deemed ready to serve whether in use or idle.
A fragment from the Christian Science Monitor explains that if hills filled valleys the earth would be a smooth sphere, an ocean 8 700 feet deep. The Atlantic Ocean lies near this mean level with a shallow continental shelf and a vast flat plain leading to the mid Atlantic ridge near Iceland. The ridge runs parallel to Europe and Africa with occasional peaks such as the Azores and Tristan da Cunha.
Mrs. Roy Mathias is bed fast with neuritis this week. Harry Patton and Frank T. Pearce made a business trip to Beatrice Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. George Ball returned from Beardsley Kansas and will spend the winter in Diller. Rhue Green of Lincoln spent Sunday in Diller at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs H E Green. Dr Viers stepped on a nail the other day and now walks with a cane.
The Monday afternoon eclipse drew attention from many Diller residents using smoked glass. The sun was a little over half obscured. Misa Ethel Woods, a Diller school faculty member, had returned from summer school at Columbia University in New York last week.
An old ad from Beatrice Nebraska promotes pleated accordion ladies skirts at 1.50 a pattern with return postage prepaid by Walkers Service of Mercer RB Walker Dry Goods Co. The note jokes about electricity replacing mules in coal mines and ponders future pocket meals.
Hamburg reports high prices for wild beasts with giraffes at about 5000 dollars, hippos 2500 to 5000, and lions 1250 each as post war shortages restrict hunting. Adolf Hagenback seeks British permit to send German hunters to India to reestablish supply and visit the Majaradja of Gwalior, who once received eight lions from him.
A bright red Luftpostkasten air mail box is installed near the Hotel Bristol entrance in Berlin to take only air-mail. It is emptied six to eight times daily, signaling growing air mail use. The blue box nearby handles regular mail, and more such boxes are planned as air travel expands.
Park Stylus presents a comic quip on Mose claiming a new role as professor of pathology at the college. The joke hinges on Mose misdescribing the title and misunderstanding the job as directing access to the campus grounds.
Miss Marguerite Evans claimed the undisputed heavyweight bathing beauty title at the Long Beach contest on Long Island with a perfect 50 form, securing top honors in the pageant.
William Hall of Lewiston Pennsylvania, over eighty, long bald, broke both legs in an auto crash. While recovering his injuries, he grew a full head of hair according to the New York World.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes a blunt European style quip about social behavior in dating. The remark suggests mutual interest is blocked by agency and personal choice, reflecting casual cultural commentary rather than a formal event.
Romulu Delsi, a Mexican laborer from Stanton near Santa Anna, California, is said to be eighty eight years old and the father of forty five children. The youngest child is six days old and weighs eight pounds. Dr. O D Ball, state assemblyman, asserts the claim and notes Delsi has lived with his fourth or fifth wife. County records show twins were born when he was seventy nine.
Six calves have been born in 16 months to a cow owned by John Mil Debran near Russell Kansas. Recently four calves were born at once. The calves died due to improper care, veterinarians say.
A Rockford physician restored life to a newborn girl by injecting adrenaline into the heart muscles after the infant had been declared dead for ten minutes. The child is reported to be doing well.
Four hundred fifty people died in automobile accidents in New York City during the first half of this year. The total is four fewer than the number killed in the first six months of 1922.
A nine year old boy, son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Peterson of Webster City Iowa, lost an eye after pecking by a bird inside a homemade wooden cage. The curiosity verloing into the cage led to the injury.
Mrs. Bertha Levy of New York City obtained a divorce alleging lack of affection after a one year marriage. She claimed her husband kissed her only twice daily, leading to the separation and court action.
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