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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1906
Page
4
On Friday September 21 1906 Mercedes Lopez a Mexican woman is said to possess the longest hair in the world. Her height is five feet and her hair trails four feet eight inches when she stands erect. The hair is eighty thick and she can completely hide in it. She cuts it frequently as it grows fast. A writer notes rabbits banding Australia.
Froken Eli Moller becomes the first woman in Denmark to receive the doctor of medicine degree. The title requires a substantial treatise or a novel theory and the ability to defend it before appointed professors, a demanding standard not easily met.
The London Telegraph notes Sven Hedin, Sweden's famed explorer, begins a dangerous voyage from Turkestan toward the Tarim river heart of Asia. His Blasieholm rooms lie shut as he undertakes a perilous journey likely never to return to them.
The Gironde affair recalls 1868 Jonzac doctors who deemed a poisoning crime but hesitated to report it. Their peers argued that crimes uncovered in medical practice become professional secrets, a view not universally shared according to Petit Parisien.
The article notes France's population around 40 million and total wealth near 45 billion dollars. Consul Robert P. Skinner reports on estate administration in 1904 totaling 394,787 with about half valued below 100 thousand dollars, and only three estates exceeding ten million dollars.
Trevor Battye calls Lilla son of King Lewanika a highly intelligent leader eager to advance his people. The note recalls Lewanika’s return from a coronation and his opening tirade to followers, declaring “You are simply baboons.”
Wakion Fawcett reports in Technical World Magazine that black sand deposits along the Pacific coast contain gold and platinum. Government tests show promising results, with Humboldt county samples yielding about 1000 dollars per ton, and a new experimental station opens in Chapel Hill to treat low grade deposits in the mid-Atlantic and southern states.
The New York Times lauds Buenos Ayres boasting about 1.16 million inhabitants and rapid growth. It says the city rivals Paris as the world’s premier Latin city, with Washington like beauty, New York wealth, and Chicago hustle. It praises parks boulevards opera houses clubs and hotels surpassing counterparts in these U.S. cities.
A German paper describes a copper enamel globe clock 18 cm tall with a 12 cm sphere split into northern and southern hemispheres. It rests in equilibrium in Cardan suspension and runs eight days. A central barrel drives a tube through the north pole, winding at the south pole, making the globe rotate so noon aligns on the meridian and the sun passes under moving meridians.
A visualization showing the current local time across multiple time zones with an overlay indicating the location where it is noon at that exact moment. The design highlights global solar noon synchronized across regions, aiding time coordination.
Sir Henry Hozier recalls the worst sea day in October 1881 when 108 ships were reported lost in twelve hours at Lloyds. The tolling bell marked losses and the Lun dine bell recalls a century old ship with a huge cargo that largely disappeared into the sea.
The published address from General Kuropatkin to the Manchuria army accepts responsibility for Russia’s failure to prevail. He admits lacking talent to fix defects and notes the army’s utter unpreparedness and inefficient training for war.
Thomas A Edison recalls judging early records with Good Fair or Rotten marks. He notes that the rotten labels often boosted sales, and now condemning a bit of music sends the factory into overdrive to meet demand.
A Peking and Tientsin Times writer notes the cigarette's rise in popularity across the East. The long stemmed pipe is waning as all Chinese classes embrace cigarettes, including inexpensive brands seen even among Pe king beggars and rickshaw coolies.
George B. Winter, a London military tailor hired to reorganize U S uniforms, praises the army as the pick of American manhood. He calls the soldiers hard, lean, muscular and capable of withstanding hardship.
A Louisville Courier Journal note compares prison population growth from 1850 to 1890 with overall population, asserting prison rates rose faster. The piece cites Goethe and Orientalism on views of women, discussing Dorothea in Faust and asking whether Goethe held women in low esteem, concluding he sought balance but did not attain it.
A simple servant loses a letter for his mistress and asks the clerk for another. The clerk wonders what to do given the many letters, while the servant suggests requesting a replacement. The humor hinges on the servant’s blunt practicality.
A tired man from Nashua, New Hampshire asked for a room at a Boston hotel. He offered to pay one dollar if he left by six in the morning, then attempted to negotiate to fifty cents, claiming he would not sleep long as he travels.
The anecdote recalls a minister who greeted worshippers as they passed out and spoke cordially with a young German woman. He expressed a wish to visit her home, prompting a blush and a flustered response from the woman who eagerly claimed she had a young man. The tale appears in Lippine vts Magazine.
The Burlington Bulletin advertises September excursion rates to New England and Canada, Pacific Coast trips, and western destinations with limited time offers. It also promotes homeseekers' excursions and free land notes, directed by D Clem Poiver and AT Watson, with contact details for Burlington Ticket Agent offices.
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