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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1941
Page
5
A damaged OCR fragment shows small item prices including 19 cents 10 cents and 15 cents with other numbers unclear. The text resembles a storefront or catalog snippet from a bygone era.
Classified blurb lists rates for 10c per line first insertion and 5c per line for repeats. Includes notices for weddings with a subscription offer, sale of tractors 1938 John Deere and 7 10-20 McCormick Deering, and daily or weekly newspaper subscriptions. Also mentions graduation watches from F A Hannis Gift Shop in York.
Mr and Mrs Frank Scheapler and Delta were callers Sunday afternoon in the home of Mr and Mrs Paul Wurtz. Mr and Mrs Henry Mundt and family spent the weekend in the home of their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Alfred Wohl at Crete.
Osceola residents hosted and visited relatives across Nebraska and Iowa. Fred Adkins and Joe Nyquist spent time with local folks, while Si Cook underwent tonsil surgery. The Forty Niners bridge club saw high scores by W Norton and a traveling prize to Jerman Anderson. Visits included Bill Butcher’s Iowa trip to fetch Mrs Hanshew and Chas Lytle’s Arborville relatives.
Residents visit relatives in Omaha and North Platte while travelers share farm and community updates. A parsnip over eighteen inches long is shown by Bill Steel. Crow family auctions household goods in the former Crow’s Drug Store building with Col Kenneth Samuels as auctioneer.
A dense list of visits and gatherings across Sioux City York Osceola Clarks Columbus and Omaha. Residents Mrs W L Kerker Lester Rehrs Leila Reed Henry Reed Mildred Snodgrass and others attend suppers dinners hospital calls Easter party and Undertakers Convention with registrations managed by Mrs Sam Wall.
Local notes detail visits and social calls across Polk county. Carroll Flodman and neighbors chat at Stohl home in Clark, families host gatherings in Fullerton and Marquette, and Barbara Ann Carlson welcomes a new baby girl. Myron Norquest’s fourth birthday is noted amid weekend visits and events.
Community notes list visits among local residents Mrs. Ralph Miodman and family with Mr and Mrs Elmer Peterson. Calls by Mr and Mrs Karl Detloff at York and a trip to Central City for J E Birchfield and Mr Birchfield to Los Angeles on Union Pacific transfer. Also ad for Chinese Elms and Nebraskan grown trees at F L Dunn's store seven miles west of Clark.
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