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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
4
Notice from the Diller Nebraska post office indicates second class mail transmission and advertising rates upon application. Business locals run until ordered out, charged at five cents per line per insertion. Dated Friday September 29 1916.
An estimate by Thorne A Browne in a Nebraska Legislative Reference Bureau bulletin argues that registering all land transfers and mortgages under the Torrens system in 1915 could have saved Nebraska about $600000. The study compares the 90800 transactions and $870000 in current costs with a Torrens cost of about $270000 plus setup charges.
The Omaha Bee extols Nebraska’s baby show at the state fair praising Ideal conditions for births and outstanding specimens. Judges discard 100 percent as criterion, measuring weight, height, and development to award prizes to exceptional youngsters from Lincoln and across the state.
A stir of pep runs through the campaign as Colonel Roosevelt and Mr. Taft accept invitations to a Hughes reception on October 3. They have not met since 1910 when Roosevelt visited Taft in Connecticut, a reunion after earlier tensions and the ensuing 1912 crisis.
Osawatomie Graphic reports a mud puddle became a talking point in town, humorously cited as a small mover of daily decisions and conversations. Residents share playful notes about its impact on walks, drives, and outdoor plans.
Chicago newsboys prize Nellie the dog trained to deter lingering readers. If a passerby slows for war dispatches, she growls softly then louder to drive them away. Nellie sits atop papers, ensuring no one overreads without buying.
Neighbors in North Bergen New Jersey complain Louis Tracassa fails in sanitary living conditions for five pigs. Tracassa testifies he bathes pigs each morning and his wife bathes them each night in a tub. Health board takes case under advisement.
Central America hosts the Volcan de Agua in Guatemala about twenty five miles southwest of Guatemala City. The peak reaches 14 450 feet and slopes support cultivated fields and forests up to near the summit. It vents torrents of cold water and once flooded the northern valley destroying a village on the mountainside.
The piece discusses albinism as a long standing mystery in science with pigment absence in skin and hair. Physiologists and pathologists have offered few convincing explanations and the fundamental reason remains unclear despite centuries of inquiry.
The piece traces fashion evolution from single layer garments to the shirt creation and later waistcoats breeches and trousers. It notes the overcoat replacing the medieval cloak and its rarity before the seventeenth century.
John Nash of near Elkarden known as the white robed prophet and divine healer debated in a Flintstone grove with Rev. B Y S Teter. Nash allowed a copperhead bite to prove immunity, claims he has endured bites from all snakes, and appeared barefoot in white robes with his 12 year old son Jacob the Prophet amid fasting for spiritual strength.
Spokane, Washington reports five year old twins Robert and Grace Rice, children of E. I. Rice, who work as shorthand writers with claimed speed of one hundred words a minute. Home taught, they have two lessons daily, practicing from short beginnings to fifteen minute sessions, developing spelling and drafting skills.
Mrs James Richards Lea twenty nine years old wed a man named Roberts in Conway Arkansas courthouse by Judge John W Holt. This marked her sixth marriage after a previous ceremony about three years ago in Russellville. Mrs Roberts is sister to George Doss who recently eloped with Addie Pruitt aged thirteen in a marriage later annulled.
Budapest Hungary Barna Kohlen er a cavalry captain who lost an arm has devised a wooden shoe with layered slats held by oils that thicken to grip and provide leather like elasticity.
After a three day convention and a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, members of the International Stewards' Association proclaimed an American system for hotel service, rejecting foreign influence on menus and language. E. H. Nies led calls to run hotels without foreign help or languages.
Receipts show 424 loads of cattle and 11,000 head on Tuesday at Union Stock Yards South Omaha. Prices generally lower or steady with hogs and cows weak, lambs draggy but lamb and ewe ranges provided for various classes.
A Baltimore American excerpt shows a scene where a speaker rebukes fear of ventilation and demands fresh air while a son adjusts a piano playthrough. The dialogue emphasizes tension over a stuffy setting and a desire for relief.
The text notes ancient awareness of electrical properties in rubbed substances such as amber and explains that the term electricity derives from the Greek word for amber, reflecting the historical link to early investigations around the sixteenth century.
Milly tends the baby during a noon nap while Trusty’s tail keeps time like music with a tap. Milly softly sings hush a bye as the baby eyes close and Trusty’s taps slow, ending in a quiet nap for baby and dog.
Leona M Barber petitions Jefferson County Nebraska District Court for absolute divorce alleging abandonment for two years and seeking exclusive custody of her four year old son Dean Barber. Respond by November 13, 1915. Heasty Barnes represent Leona M Barber as attorneys.
In the matter of the Estate of Anna C. Diller deceased petitions seek to prove the August 9 1916 will and appoint W C Line as administrator with will annexed. Hearing set for October 10 1916 at nine o'clock A M in County Court with notice by three weekly publications in the Diller Record.
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