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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
2
The speaker outlines a progressive platform supporting tariff and ship subsidy policies, corporate control, and direct legislation. They advocate a graduated income tax, a federal food law amendment for minimum net weight labeling, oppose repealing margarine taxes, and reject parcels post expansion.
The state requires land owners to mow or destroy weeds along public roads up to the road middle each year between July 15 and August 15. If neglected, road overseers may perform the work at $4 per day, charged to adjacent landowners. By order of County Commissioners.
A playful reader club uses acrostics to spell Jenkins in telegrams read aloud. Tales include magic tricks, a heroic boy at the burning deck, and notes on leaders from Napoleon to modern scenes, with scattered anecdotes and curious tricks.
Two young boys Snicklefritz and Ticklefingers are described by a narrator. Snicklefritz receives all the spankings while Ticklefingers gets the toys, as their father Whistletrigger scolds and punishes them. The verse laments the father's harshness and the boys' mischief, asking readers to pity both children and father.
In Perkinsville a widow named Mary announces she will attend the circus with Moses Fairman, despite church leaders urging conformity. She challenges locals with questions about morality and Bible authority, arguing circuses mirror ordinary life and offering a countercase to fear. The town debates, but the widow remains resolved as the circus arrives.
A Wichita Star writer cites a Youth's Companion line about a Kansas boy who rejects his father's castoff clothes and red whiskers. The boy sobs behind the barn saying his father shaved and now he must wear the beard.
Fragmentary text from a St Louis Post-Dispute item mentions Mary with a lamb Willie with a dog and Peterkin with fine times a box at the opera servants a fashionable mansion and a world tour. implies social amusements and status symbols in a mixed vignette.
A county assessor canvassing for personal tax assessments visited a widow in the Second ward. He asked politely what she had. She replied she had two children and rheumatism, then slammed the door. Source: Kansas City Star.
A quirkily affectionate vignette recalls a husband praising his wife's first tea biscuit with theatrical zeal. He declares the bake a thing of beauty and vows posterity must know what bread for tea their mother made, capturing a playful slice of domestic life.
In a Bostom Transcript excerpt a female sheriff announces an attachment for a man at home. A wife reacts with suspicion and drama as she confronts the sheriff, pulling the sheriff's hair in a tense moment.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution urges readers to seize the moment with a cheerful refrain. It promotes an optimistic mindset for daily activities and early risers alike.
A Washington Herald quote notes a wife finding two aces in her husband’s pocket after a night out. The columnist suggests not condemning him, as the aces may indicate victories at poker rather than wrongdoing.
A Spokane Spokesman Review quip about a hungry cannibal who overindulges in missionary fare ends with the cannibal declaring he is through and a joke that you cant keep a good man down. The brief joke nods to the absurdity of overconsumption.
A brief Baltimore American quip notes a man entering a dentist’s office is a great athlete and ties the joke to his jumping tooth ache in a light, humorous item.
A Cleveland Leader poem contrasts the smoking habits of the rich man with a meeracau and farmer with corncob to the soldier’s clay pipe. Sailors refuse to smoke hornpipes highlighting occupational habits.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt shows a town council debate about billionaire gifts and whether the town should provide a hole in the ground or water. The remark questions who bears the cost and which public works the town will supply.
A playful verse from a Chicago Tribune pickup lampoons a Salinas scout fearing discovery of a seaside tryst by a husband, with irony on romance and restraint in a coastal California setting.
Dialogue from Lippincott's notes a station scene with a Hag and a passenger asking about trains. The two thirty train is gone, five minutes ago. The next train is at four fifteen.
Miscellaneous clipped quotes appear in a Cleveland Plain Dealer note and a Chicago News blurb. The items mock public figures and a dubious “Little Brothers of the Grouch” group in a satirical exchange.
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