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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1940
Page
2
Attractive sunbonnet girl figure serves as a garden trellis for climbing flowers. Made from plywood or thin lumber using a saw to cut and a parasol trellis held by the girl. Paint per pattern 79112 directions. general cutout instructions included. 15 cents. Order now.
Practical advice on frying safety and pan care, cleaning methods for japanned items, and using lukewarm water. Tips include removing iron rust with sour milk, noting refrigerator cold spots, and preparing browned pears as garnishes for veal or pork chops with simple seasoning.
An advertisement for Kellogg's All-Bran promotes regular bowel movements by supplying dietary bulk. It suggests eating the toasted cereal with milk or cream, drinking water, and may advise medical consultation if chronic. Made by Kellogg's in Battle Creek.
Quote reflects on youth and life’s transitions, noting how the season’s meaning is defined by what it gains or avoids. Attributed to Carlyle.
Wealthy Southern California ranch owner Don Alfredo ignores warnings of a Sierra Indian raid. After deciding to seek mission protection for his wife and family, the attack comes. Alfredo is killed and his two young daughters are seized by a loyal maid Monica. Padre Pasqual arrives at the ruined ranch.
In a tense scene Monica recalls warnings that failed to save Don Alfredo and his family at Los Alamos as an Indian youth named Yasco betrays them. The attackers slaughter the household on the portico while the sentinel boy escapes with stolen silver. The trio moves toward the ranch house through the wheat.
WNU Service scouts plan to ambush a panther threat as Pardalee and Bowie stalk a deer meal. After an hour of waiting they kill a buck and debate their Californy location while descending toward lower terrain with limited food and hope for fresh game before nightfall.
A Texan party led by Bowie and scout Simmie spies a war party of Indians with loaded ponies racing up a canyon. They debate routes to avoid or confront the raiders, noting possible prisoners and the danger of a cannibal camp. The scene ends with resolve to investigate.
In a tense scene at the Los Alamos mission Padre Pasqual and Diego confront Monica as she reveals a day of horror. She recounts the murder of her mistress Carmelita and sister Terecita, and Alfredito’s bravery as soldiers pursue the Indian attackers and bury the slain vaqueros.
Bowie and two companions, Pardaloe and Simms, wake to a distant buck that could end ten days of hunger. They prepare rifles and scout the east in the dawn light as the starving party eyes relief in the chaparral.
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes Marty and Bill jazzing an old buffet shelf into a blue tufted curtain project using muslin squares and cotton yarn. They dip and tuft the stitches to create the design, then dry without ironing, hinting at a bridal kitchen shower idea for next week.
A reflection on a decade of rapid innovations that transformed daily life. The list highlights streamlined trains television transoceanic air service synthetic rubber fluorescent lighting colored films plastics and resins polarized glass and fiber glass insulation. It notes synthetic hosiery vitamins hormones and key drugs like sulfanilamide and sulfapyradine changing medicine and industry.
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