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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1923
Page
3
Norman V. Pearce promotes a message of optimism as a daily nudge to mend and persevere. Local notes recount theater outings, farm contracts, travel to nearby towns, and residents’ activities from Fairbury to Diller and Beatrice.
In Fairbury obituaries and ads appear with a dental ad and a garage sale notice. Harold Hutchinson visits Lincoln relatives while Louise Rees moves from Diller to Holmesville consolidated schools. Diller Auto Co sells to John Pulec of Steele City as Limprecht and Bell thank patrons.
Mrs. Harry Thompson hosts a local club meeting with author reviews. Wiemers family members, including Scede and Alpha, win $66 in Chester White hog prizes at the Fairbury county fair, taking multiple firsts and seconds across boars and gilts and earning association honors.
The Chicago Automobile Dealers Association releases a pedestrian safety code aligned with its safety campaign. Rules urge alertness and patience at crossings, avoid mid block crossings, do not dart from parked cars, and remind pedestrians they share responsibility for safety noting courts may not always side with the injured.
Sunday guests gathered at the Miller home as Dr and Mrs Steffen and daughter Margaret Ann joined Mr and Mrs Cully and Mr and Mrs Woods in a social visit with Scott and May Miller.
In Franklin, Hancock County, Catherine Hill notes Maine once yielded tin and housed a tin mine in Winslow. The shaft remains visible though the mine is long past, a fact few current residents recall from Portland Press Herald reporting.
At the Jefferson County fair in Fairbury last week two Diller boys won top prizes in the baby contest. Allen Miller led with 99 68 percent, while the Willoughby daughter placed second at 99 5-8 percent and Serenus Belden Viers, son of Dr. and Mrs S B Viers, took third with 99 4-8 percent. Prizes included a gold lined sterling mug for first, silver neck lace/bracelet for second, and a gold ring for third.
A reception for Diller public schools faculty and school board members and their wives was held at J. W. Fouts home on Hilton Street Tuesday evening. Husbands joined as guests for a music social and readings from the Corntassel Gazette. Rev. Clark acted as auctioneer in a public sale followed by a free lunch of ice cream wafers and coffee. About forty attended.
Henry Wiemers exhibited Chester White hogs at Fairbury Belleville and Aberdeen earning numerous first places. Awards include grand champion boar and sow at various fairs and top placements for junior and senior boars sows and litters. He also sold nine head at the Nebr State fair after one entry boar was injured.
Students note a county fair dismissal and a big Sophomore Slam week attempt that was squelched. Reports cover class activities from botany leaves to geometry, senior and freshman class updates, athletics, fair attendance, and weather records from primary grades.
Seventh grade geography studies South American nations while fifth and sixth grades hold spelling contests. Intermediate students attend Beatrice fair. Hygiene class experiments with a ventilation cabinet. Allen Tristman brings Wisconsin ferns to school. On Sept 28 Heart Day activities at Diller raise funds for Nebraska Children's Home Society. children sell ten heart tokens at ten cents each for a commemorative pen and pencil prize.
Fragmented lines describe playful quirks about aging anglers and social notes. A line about 2 089 banks on Ellis Island accompanied by blankets hints at a satirical or historical index. Short phrases reference a house painter and a coveted man.
A tongue in cheek exchange questions if radios are a fad or a frenzy, illustrating early 20th century attitudes toward new technology as reported by the Boston Transcript. The quip centers on the term frenzy and its social implications.
A quirky exchange shows Ebb asking why calico attire is no longer worn and Flo replying she hates being printed. The light dialogue highlights fashion and self-awareness in a playful newsroom tone.
Smithy says he is trying to get ahead while Bruce encourages him, noting that he needs one thing to move forward.
A humorous dialogue notes the cost burden of smoking on a couple. The husband jokes that his wife objects because they cannot both afford the habit.
A fragment from Life magazine quotes a worker asked why he wants to work in a powder mill and cites a doctor advising quitting smoking. The brief hints at health and labor themes within a periodical caption style.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Medicine relieves catarrhal inflammation with an ointment and a tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo Ohio for over 40 years.
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