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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1927
Page
3
A coarse collage lists service ads and local items from Fairbury Nebraska. It mentions Diller Filling Station for barrel delivery of oil or gas, eye ear nose and throat services in Fairbury, two fresh cows for sale, and Beatrice contact details. It also contains a quip on government costs and a pangram variation.
Dr and Mrs W L Wi and son Beverly spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs E E Weigel and his father John Hilder and other Diller relatives and friends.
A man needs two dollars for a ticket and uses a pawn ticket he has. He borrows or trades and ends up selling the pawn ticket for one dollar, leaving him with two dollars and on his way. The loss of fifty cents falls to the pawnshop or buyer who loses value on the deal.
A six pound hen lays about 144 eggs annually, yielding roughly three times the usual egg output for its size. The article compares breed, feed, and management to explain the higher productivity and potential profitability.
Local notices mention cows for sale from Frank G and a M W A meeting schedule on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays. Snappy hats arrive at Wallace sisters in Fairbury as Mrs Carrie Green returns to Diller. Optimistic note about hair restorers and a poll turnout comparison from 30 years ago. Mrs Frank Andelt departed Dorchester after visiting relatives in Lincoln.
Mrs. E L Can and Mrs. Loock traveled from Burlington to Savannah Missouri by train. Mrs. Loock went to a hospital for removal of a small cancer from the top of her left ear. Mr. Loock planned to return on Wednesday.
The Harbine bank annual corn show drew 136 entries. W H Bennett of Endicott won first prize ten dollars for a 14 ft 0.5 in tall stalk, with W C Buchmeier of Thomson second. Alfred Ackman of Jansen took heaviest ear for ten dollars, August Wen earned second for five. Longest ear went to Endicott for 151 inches.
A fragmented note discusses how men’s weight changes with age and dress size, suggesting a weight difference between ages twenty five and fifty. It hints that adjustments might occur if certain actions are not taken, mentioning small pound changes.
Prof Yost and wife weekend in Lincoln with Chas Brandt and Mamie Brandt meeting Mrs Bertha LaVoe of Pueblo Colo for the 78th birthday. Diller Woman's Club issues a new year book with program by laws and 33 active members. Emma Fry honored at her 80th birthday dinner with family guests from North Platte and Diller.
Mrs Smith sought a flat iron from a mail order house. Delays in catalogs orders and money orders forced repeated post office trips and weeks of correspondence. She finally bought from a local seller, the iron arrived in an hour, met expectations, and she learned her lesson paying full price.
Early morning robbery at Jansen State Bank yielded between 1500 and 1700 dollars. The incident broke open the old safe of Farmers and Merchants Bank of Fairbury located nearby with an acetylene torch. Burglary insurance covered the damaged safe and vault area. The thieves forced the safe onto its side creating a four inch hole.
Detroit reports 23 arrests in three days as Jack W Worden age thirteen helped convict nineteen Highland Park merchants for selling meat and four peddlers for short weight. He credited his father John W Worden a longtime city policeman with guiding him. All defendants were convicted and fined five to twenty five dollars.
In Birmingham, Mrs Mary Rhodes Elliot was indicted for using the mails to defraud. She committed suicide shortly after arrest, leaving a tale of a blighted life and a magical wealth lure: a magazine ad seeking a southern girl with $50,000. Donald EB Elliot answered her plea, ending in tragedy.
Pitman New Jersey report describes a 15 year old girl Marion Stowe who eloped with Lawrence Reemel 27. They wed in Chestertown Maryland after elopement plans failed and faced pursuit by the girl's mother Mrs Marion B Stowe. The daughter chose to stay with Reemel despite her mother's threats.
A swarm of bees clustered on the tail of a horse hitched to a butcher wagon before a Berlin shop. The horse bucked for ten minutes to the delight of a startled crowd, then tore away down the avenue. Fire brigade intervened and the exhausted animal was corralled.
Brazil and Argentina rank high in cost of living. The ship phrase quotes Capt. James Lawrence. Babe Ruth holds the home run record. Coal is a fossil fuel. A divining rod is a supernatural water detector. Jean Jacques Rousseau born January 17 1706? Washington Monument completed 1884. The gifted songwriter forced to sell works died poor. The Amazon River pours the most water into the ocean. The Basel twig senses mineral waters.
Emil Marek, a Vienna engineer, was accused with his wife of severing his leg to claim 400000 in accident insurance. A court case ran two years, Marek and his wife were acquitted of the main charge, Marek received four months. the Anglo-Danubian Insurance Co agreed to pay 85000 to Marek.
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