Earthquake at Yellow Stone Prompts Community Reflections
The piece notes an earthquake at Yellow Stone National Park and cites the Don Johnson family as witnesses who hurried home after the event. It then presents several National Safety Council statistics from 1958 on licensed drivers, vehicle fatalities, urban and rural deaths, causes such as running off road and collisions, and the impact of speed and alcohol on fatal crashes. It also breaks down accidents by driver age and highlights rural run off road patterns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone National Park
Don Johnson
Don
Johnson’s
National Safety Council
Smoking Rodents Vex Researchers In England
Five years of exposing mice rats and hamsters to heavy cigarette smoke yielded no lung cancer in the animals according to the British Empire Cancer Campaign. One control animal did develop a lung growth, but it was not exposed to smoke. Sir Stanford Cade calls the result a striking negative. The piece notes ongoing debate and calls for more study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
British Cancer Research Program
Stanford Cade
C. C. Little
Tobacco Industry Research Committee
Why Do Good People Suffer According to Dr Youngs
Dr Robert W Youngs of First Presbyterian Church Wichita Kansas explains in a Reader's Digest piece that suffering has Biblically grounded purposes. He argues adversity reveals virtue, tests faith, and motivates growth, while noting cause and effect govern life without regard to morality. He urges readers to seek church guidance for answers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. Youngs
First Presbyterian Church
Wichita
Kan
Reader’s Digest
Youngs
Dr. Youngs
A Christian World, Inc
Time Of Knead Brings Hope In Bread Prize Season
A nostalgic essay celebrates yeast bread and rolls contests at fairs across the country. It notes housewives baking at home, families gathering for hot slices, and a renewed faith in community life through baking. The piece links bread to restored sanity and optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daughers
County 4 H Dairy Show Ribbons Tallied at Seward
Polk County 4 H members earned 2 purple 9 blue and 5 red ribbons at the District Dairy Show in Seward on August 17. Top honors included Lora Lee Dawes and Lionel Swanson. Nine blue ribbons and two purple go on to Ak Sar Ben Dairy Show in September.
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Polk County
Seward
Lora Lee Dawes
Lionel Swanson
Guernsey
Barbara Wieseman
Sidney Dunn
Lional Swanson
Reds
Kathryn Pliefke
Beverly Wieseman
Jerry
Seed Treatment and Pest Risks for Nebraska 1959 Plantings
Nebraska farm notes warn treated seed crucial as scab infected wheat lowers stands. Hessian fly, western mosaic threaten fields. volunteers must be destroyed to curb pests. Reports cover hog feeds, ground beetles, alfalfa aphids, 4-H enrollment, and farm machinery costs with a public sale notice in Polk County.
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Nebraska
Ponca
Pawnee
Highway 81
Cheyenne
Panhandle
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
Howard IL. ?Iegers
University of Nebraska
Arkansas Experiment Station
Great Plains States
U. S
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Robert E. Roselle
Sion
Roselle
University of Nebraska Extension
University of Nebraska Poultrymen
University of Nebraska Agricultural Economists Report
Canada
University of Nebraska Agricultural Economists
Insurance ad notes wind coverage for farms and irrigation
Walter H. Koehler promotes City and Farm Insurance offering automobile and irrigation wind coverage for farms and ranches with policy options and local service.
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Walter H. Koehler
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Osceola Record
IEBRA
Osceola
Nepton
Don and
Mary Waterman
Nebr
Osceola Implement Company
Mason Nurseries
Mason’s
6Th Street
York, Nebraska
District Court of
Carl Victor Johnson
Elsie Josephine Eckert
Kaneb Pipe Line Company
Campbell & Nyberg Attorneys
State Farm
Stromsburg
State Farm Mutual Automobile Company
Ovate Farm
Bloemington, Lilinele
Tyners Travel Agency
York, Nebr
C. R. Peterson
Eldon W. Anderson
New York Life Ins. Co
A Mutual Co
Grant Ave. York
Bert Gissler
Dairy Queen
York
Discount
Silver Creek
Peterson Locker and Market
Silver Creek, Nebr
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