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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
8
Local items include Miss Fern Raymond learning the Simplex typeset machine, visits by Miss Gertarde Diller and other relatives. News covers frost impact, university coeducation, travel to Peoria, and a Degree of Honor event with a Masonic hall program and supper.
Synopsis of the just closed session highlights major laws and actions. Eight hour law enacted and military forces reorganized with record appropriations. Preparedness nears 700 million dollars as a dominant budget. Child labor products halted in interstate commerce. Rural credits act offered long term, low rate farmer loans. Philippines granted greater self government. Government expenses shifted to munitions, incomes and inheritances. Rivers and harbors and merchant marine acts passed. Supreme Court nominees Brandies and Clarke confirmed. Railways investigated. sugar removed from free list. tariff commission created. anti-dumping act enacted. Workmen compensation extended to U S employees. Postal credits increased. Danish treaty confirmed. Colombian treaty rejected to avoid payoff for alleged aiding in Panama revolution.
A cedar tree finally matures after more than a century to yield a thirty foot telephone pole, illustrating the long growth cycle for timber used in rural infrastructure.
A young woman sought treatment from a physician in Clay County for a skin condition. Examination revealed numerous diamond shaped brown spots across the neck and upper trunk. The doctor warned permanent cure requires sewing up the waist holes or avoiding sun exposure.
A humorous claim extols Henry Ford as the world’s greatest evangelist, saying his Ford cars have jarred the devil out of more polite people than any other man. The tale notes Ford’s converts appreciate the result as much as Billy Sunday’s converts.
Brase Bande played to lighten labor as four battalions uprooted old pine stumps at Camp Borden Canada. About a million stumps have been removed in the camp area. The stumps are extracted with a machine, gathered in heaps, and burned, with bonfires seen at night recalling Homer’s Iliad.
James Nolan of Morrisons near Warren paid $50 and costs after killing a mother bear out of season. He shot the bear while fishing near his home, then kept the cubs at his house before state game warden Lt. Hogarth arrested him and took custody of the cubs.
A quotation urging people to value their own situation and strive for improvement by comparing themselves to the many who are less fortunate rather than those above them. It emphasizes personal effort and outlook over envy.
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