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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1907
Page
4
The Diller Record published weekly in Diller Nebraska issues from E. L. Leeck's building with offices upstairs. Subscriptions are one year or six months in advance. Advertising rates are five cents per line. business locals run until ordered discontinued. Friday September 20 1907.
A Fairbury special reports from Sept 4 that Jefferson county wheat from 43,861 acres yields about 867,220 bushels at 77 cents. Corn on 105,357 acres with 40 bushels per acre yields 4,214,280 bushels priced at 45 cents, totaling about 1,896,427.80. Combined value for these two crops ~2,564,186.20, hinting at county farmers’ autumn prosperity. Sunflowers infuse color as corn lagged in May.
A Northern farmer enjoys rising prices across livestock and crops. Cattle and veal climb, pork and beef surge, eggs and poultry fetch strong returns. With corn at eight tenths price and hay sales booming, he dominates rural life while others struggle.
Pastor Arles Faked of John D Rockefeller's By the Rev CH Church urges restraint amid modern speed. He argues civilization's momentum from steam to electricity demands rest and Sunday churchgoing to renew the mind and spirit.
Bohemian Magazine notes Ostende's vast beach filled with portable bath houses and chairs even at night. The 1771 lighthouse casts a 45 mile glow and the promenade rivals Broadway in cosmopolitan flair with European officers, Russian figures, and German officers in stylish dress walking past fashionable crowds.
A fragment from Victor Hugo’s Intélectual Autobiography muses on crossing the universe. It contrasts locomotives and cannons with a ray of light, claiming light traverses vast spaces in minutes and years, while confronting the boundless darkness beyond perception.
A dramatic line declares the speaker a worm of the earth with possessed intelligence, then acknowledges an abyss of infinity and asks for pardon. The passage emphasizes existential awe and the sense of boundless thought.
German experiments show radium bromide alters color in stones. A Borneo diamond pale to yellow after eight days, deepening with more exposure and not fully restoring after heating. Sapphire light blue shifts to green then to yellow, yellowish brown after two weeks. heating reverses some changes. Amethyst ruby blue topaz chrysoberyl largely unaffected. tourmaline turns green at radiated points.
A suburban resident argues with a land agent after sinking in muddy green water while claiming he had just been married. The agent defends the location as suitable, noting the man called his bride Duckie. The odd exchange unfolds in Chicago News.
A Washington Herald snippet shows a young man told to prove his ability to support his future wife in the same social standards she has read about in trashy novels. The dialogue hints at class and taste expectations in marriage.
Quote from Wall Street Journal suggesting daily action benefits others over pursuing material goals. Message encourages trying acts of kindness today.
The philosopher Aristotle argued that the appropriate marriage age was thirty seven for men and eighteen for women.
In a discussion of extreme heat a party sketches vivid scenes such as a noon concrete sidewalk under a tar-smelling sun, a desert caravan doomed to thirst, and a kitchen at 95 outside with over 100 inside, all illustrating exhaustion and misery.
Vivid fragments describe a becalmed yacht deck with glassy sea and searing brass, a feverish field of scarlet lilies under a hot sun, a treeless road between barren fields with an ox team in yellow dust, and a sleepless August night in Chicago News style.
A stylish French woman travels with her dog on a Continental railway. For hours she lavishes care on the pet, feeding it dainties at each stop and carrying a basket with wraps, shoes, and a large bow. She buys mineral water and uses a tiny cup to let the dog drink.
Quotes by Mme Roland on beneficence and pleasure in helping others. The more aid given, the more satisfaction and attachment to the relieved individual. Those who find joy in gratitude become worthy of true compassion.
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