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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1912
Page
8
Aunt Julia, a colored washerwoman, defends her son who recently served time in Pittsburg. She boasted he is coming home for Christmas after an eighteen month absence, insisting on his good qualities despite his prison term. The excerpt reflects Harlem era attitudes and self-respect within a marginalized family.
A Chicago man claims three years of facial acne were cured by Cuticura Soap and Ointment after trying pills and other remedies. He followed directions from the Cuticura booklet, used the soap for washing and the ointment morning and night, and says he was relieved in days and fully cured in weeks. He provides his address in Chicago and notes free samples and a 32 page booklet available from Cuticura Dept. L, Boston.
Pastor Goodsole says he will start a mission Sunday school in a fashionable neighborhood apartment room on the first Sunday in May. He plans to operate all summer, inviting any children, though none are promised to attend, and calls it either an opportunity or a reproach before closing hymn.
A brief humorous quip where a five year old asks if God knows his actions before they occur and declares he will skip prayers, with the mother affirming divine omniscience and the child intent on deception. The line captures light religious humor as printed in the St Louis Republic.
A Hahnemann hospital physician in Philadelphia advertises wart revival experiments inviting 100 men and women with warts. The notice hints at a rush of wart sufferers, turning the hospital into an unlikely beauty parlor.
An old catalog style ad promotes Murine Marine Eye Remedy for red and irritated eyes with illustrated packaging and the claim it is used by physicians. Paxton Antiseptic is recommended for denture cleaning, with a Boston company address and price. A brief joke sketch contrasts a husband and wife with a quip about a sewing task and a typewriter.
An OCR fragment promotes Bromo Quinine as a laxative and a world wide cold cure with a 25c price. It mocks neighborly proximity and mentions Garfield Tea claiming normal liver action while joking about gendered tendencies.
A young man, Garrett Coast, becomes entangled with Katharine Thaxter and two rivals, Blackstock and Van Tuy l. A murder at a party leads to trial, escape, and a secret service man reveals a plot around a wireless station on No Man's Land. Coast fights to rescue Katharine while Blackstock and his gang pursue him.
Coast confronts Blackstone aboard a boat on No Man’s Land as Blackstone discloses a plot to leave and destroy witnesses. Chang dives to soak the dinghy while Coast’s dog attacks Blackstock, triggering a brutal struggle before the scene ends.
In a tender exchange a daughter vows not to leave her father and tells him she will marry Mr Poorchap who agrees to live with them, highlighting a family reunion through marriage.
A testimonial claims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aids the change of life by strengthening the nervous system and relieving symptoms like headaches dizziness and backache. Mrs Estella Grillspi of St Anne Illinois describes drastic improvements after two months and urges publication to help others.
London police remark on suffragettes by noting militant groups may cause trouble as some women shift from parades to quoits and baseballs. A cheeky line pairs a blonde and a rich duffer amid a playful winter mood.
At a Lenten musicale at the Waldorf Astoria two young matrons shared a bon mot about Marie Tempest. One quoted Miss Tempest joking that her nose is pug and that when the Creator looked for a nose for her he used the first one that turned up.
A brisk citizen claims winter air is fresh while a Chicago man counters it is the same air kept in cold storage. The ad upsell urges Garteld Tea as nature’s medicine and ends with a gendered warning to be a gentleman unless you are a woman.
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