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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
3
The ad notes snowy linens are a housewife’s pride and promotes Red Cross Ball Blue to keep them white, urging purchase at all grocers. It references a playful kitchen scene with lines about eggs and chorus before the product pitch.
A Boston Post item notes a person declares I am writing a song while unclear what the subject is. The brief captures a moment of creative claim without detailing the topic or outcome.
Castoria soothes fretful infants quickly and safely. The vegetable remedy is suitable for the youngest babies and is recommended by doctors. Families often keep an unopened bottle on hand for relief from constipation cramps and general discomfort in children.
Washington news outlines a proposed independent seven member Farm Board headed by a chair from outside the Department of Agriculture. It will oversee a $500 million revolving fund and work through cooperative associations and stabilization corporations to market agricultural commodities and curb price fluctuations.
Plans disclose a 63 story skyscraper for the Wall Street financial district with a tower and observation stories reaching 840 feet above street level.
Students in Gainesville Florida establish a new aviation course fraternity chapter of Kappa Gamma Delta at the University of Florida.
Washington President Hoover this week transmitted his first message to Congress via a special messenger rather than delivering it in person at a joint session. The state paper was read in both houses by clerks of the respective bodies.
National association survey shows U.S. industries employing 565,132 workers, 8.71 percent above 519,887 a year earlier, with plants operating at 85.1 percent capacity and 663,745 needed for full output. 1,007 companies reported. 558 up, 161 unchanged, 288 down.
Between 75 and 100 people were made homeless by twin tornadoes that left 50 dead in north Arkansas. National Guardsmen evacuated refugees from three caves near Guion after two nights without food. Nurses and physicians were sent in, with tetanus serum and tents dispatched to Newport, Batesville, and Guion as rehabilitation began for 50 to 60 families in Swifton Alicia area.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Senate adopted a constitutional amendment for a $100,000,000 primary road bond issue. The vote stood 88 to 10, approving the measure as far as the legislature is concerned.
France faces a schoolbook shortage as textbook prices surge to ten times prewar levels. Parents and schools struggle to obtain required materials amid inflated costs and limited supply.
A lively exchange features a young woman declaring her husband is a poet. The other woman flirts by asking where she obtains her cats, whether from her parents’ home or his, in a playful moment of social banter.
Appears as a literary epigraph noting that glory is a person to be pursued in moderation and that even the idle admire the effort of others. Includes Balzac attribution and philosophical reflection on work and pleasure.
A compilation of quotes on democracy education and progress. Includes statements from David Kinley of the University of Illinois and a remark about a busy man with a circus pass. Also notes that fault-finding is never insincere and the resulting hostility.
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