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Polk Progress in Polk, Nebraska

27 Apr 1939

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Polk Progress

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Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Apr 27, 1939

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3

Barber and furniture history and football terms cited

Readable fragments discuss the Brothers Adam as eighteenth century English architects and furniture designers, their use of mahogany and decorative motifs. Additional notes cover football slang pigskin, bluebook origins, and Stagg and Stout on early pigskin balls and 1856 New Jersey school football equipment.

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Brothers Adam Adam Robert James John William England Robert Adam Stagg and Stout New Jersey
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In Michoacan a volcanic sieve of waterfalls gleams under sunlit rainbows. Nobel’s dynamite merged nitroglycerin with inert filler Kieselguhr and guncotton to create a stronger explosive. Uncle Eben links happiness to sympathy. Venice’s Rialto Bridge stands marble built in 1590. Fork etiquette and Kit Carson’s namesake town are noted.

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Uruapan Michoacan Mexico Alfred Bernard Nobel Nobel Rialto Venice
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