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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1929
Page
7
Artie and Miller escape spring in the city to a farm experience recounted with wit. The pair swap stories of farm life and pranks, revealing the clash between urban ease and rural rough humor, ending with one man deciding country stays best as a brief visit.
Opinion piece argues temperament is self made not fixed and can be influenced by controlling emotion and mood. It compares temperament to complexes and suggests people should work on inner state rather than cosmetics or heredity. A practical call to action: start with emotion, clean mood, then shape temperament for better popularity.
A humorous essay argues that people lacking strength money or knowledge pursue the very things they deny. It notes the natural advantages of beauty wealth education and manners and questions how to balance vanity with practicality guiding readers to exercise discipline use cosmetics and maintain genuine charm.
Bronze tablets honoring Charles Dickens have been attached to six houses he lived in London but no statues of the novelist stand in the metropolis.
A Capper's Weekly quotation notes that ten men fight for politics while one will brave rain for his religion, illustrating conflicting loyalties and personal commitments.
A fragmentary passage contrasts Age asking for mercy from pain with Youth seeking happiness, invoking a robed voice and the tone of Robert Louis Stevenson to frame the clash between endurance and longing.
A concise reflection on progress notes that success comes from doing right through effort, not dwelling on mistakes. It urges steady, constructive action to achieve goals.
Quote attributed to B. R. Haydon notes that evil acts are usually driven by the chance of gain while the pursuit of virtue rarely yields such returns. The remark frames moral behavior as self interest guiding wrongdoing.
Four ins that harm success are indifference ingratitude intolerance and indulgence warned Forbes Magazine in a brief editorial note highlighting personal discipline.
J I Stallings of Smith County Texas, the first county farm demonstration agent in America, was appointed in 1906. His work is now carried on by more than 2 400 county agents.
A humorous exchange about polite responses on the phone. The caller notes mixed feelings when the operator thanks them yet provides an incorrect number, illustrating the irony of courteous service failing to deliver.
Mrs. Smith of Brainerd Minnesota reports lasting relief from nervous weakness and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she can perform housework and outdoor chores again and urges other women to try it.
A Ontario heat wave prompted a Tillsonburg man to appear on the street in short blue pants bare legs sandals a silk shirt with open neck and straw hat after asking the chief of police if he would be arrested. He was told his costume was within the law.
The fathometer measures water depth by timing electric echoes. It enables navigating officers to pilot their course as accurately in darkness and fog as in daylight and clear weather.
A brief humorous exchange about liberal views appears in the Cincinnati Enquirer quote column, highlighting wit about political openness and moderation. The fragment notes a man liberal in his views but cautions against excessive liberalism.
The brief scene notes Flow as a new play’s opening night marking the production’s first staging and its swift completion, signaling a concise debut.
The text questions Roberts guilt or innocence and cites a lawyer hire as possible proof. It mentions Evan Fuller graduating West Union Iowa high school without absences or late arrivals. A Portland Maine marshal sale fetched a towboat for 7500 dollars and later resold for 70000 dollars.
A reader asks about a tempting food that the doctor forbids. The humor relies on the clash between pleasure and health advice. The piece notes the tension between taste and medical guidance.
A fragmented sentence quotes Thomas Middleton midsentence noting that dreams are unreliable and contrary to clear ground.
New York relies on artificial ice for city needs while Hudson valley and Maine natural ice crops are largely discarded. City plants produce about 30,000 tons daily.
Jerrold notes Oliver Wendell Holmes is descended from Anne Bradstreet through Holmes' grandmother, making Bradstreet a great great grandmother. Critics call Bradstreet the first poet in the American colonies.
Hi Ho the sage of Chinatown warns that those who attain great wealth often fall prey to pretenders who claim wisdom to protect it. The Washington Star notes the caution as a commentary on wealth and influence.
The article explains that the flag’s stars symbolize the states collectively rather than each star representing a specific state, noting it is erroneous to assign a one to one correspondence between stars and states.
The varying intensity and color of stars arise from interference of light as it passes through Earth's atmosphere, altering how observers perceive starlight. The effect explains why stars shimmer and shift in hue across the night sky.
The American Chemical Society explains tanning separates fibers and prevents tearing. Untanned hides remain stiff as fibers stay glued, while tanning individualizes fibers and swells the hide to improve pliability.
The article traces cats as mankind’s longtime allies in eradicating rats and mice from barns and grain stores from biblical times to the present, highlighting their role in protecting stored grain during famines and beyond.
The origin of the name Chile is unsettled with at least six proposed derivations. One possibility suggests a Quichua term chili or chili cold referring to perpetual snow on Andean peaks.
A curious annual event in Upwey Weymouth England rents the parish meadow each spring not to the highest bidder but to the last bid before the light from a candle dies out. The New York Times notes this unique local custom blending tradition and chance.
The London Sunday Times laments waning ancestor worship and the decline of keeping a family album. It warns of moral decay in pride of race and notes the pathos and danger seen when portraits fade from memory, with reflections on how relatives once guided choices and behavior.
In Paris during World War I a graybeard claimed young men lack experience. President Hoover retorts that weather yesterday matters little, emphasizing the value of action over stale knowledge. The piece frames beliefs of Alfred E. Smith and Hoover about youth.
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