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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1939
Page
2
A garbled text block shows a boy and father dialogue with stray quotes and odd punctuation. The snippet includes a toll bridge scene with a sailor, a waiter order, and a classroom exchange where a teacher asks for birth date, revealing tone of a drifting vintage newspaper OCR fragment.
The notice describes No 1795 a shirred shoulder dress with a panelled high waistline suitable for afternoons and home wear. It recommends georgette chiffon or silk crepe, notes sizes and fabric yardage, and gives price 15 cents per pattern from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago. It also previews No 1793 a youthful dress with high neck and puff sleeves and lists fabrics and sizing details.
A job applicant with beauty and charm wins over a small town shop owner. He trains her to run the cash register and to report every sale. She repeatedly rings up No Sale entries, surprising the boss.
An advertisement urges nervous women to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a general tonic. It claims to calm nerves and relieve discomforts from female functional disorders, citing over 60 years of use and millions of women reporting benefits.
Doctors worldwide endorse Dean's Pills as a diuretic for functional kidney disorder and pain relief. Public opinion supports their favorable view of the product under laboratory conditions and advertising claims.
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