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Newspaper

Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Aug 24, 1950

Page

2

Good Citizen Free Schools Safeguard Democracy Teaching Truth

The eighth article in a ten part series from the American Heritage Foundation argues free public education protects democracy by teaching truth and reinforcing citizens' rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It emphasizes improving local schools and resisting fringing ideologies that dismiss core rights.

The American Heritage Foundation 45Th Street New York

Celebrities and Education Get a Free Press Plug

A collage of notes on Inez Gerhardt Osomeary Clooney CBS roles and a Gable chase, coin sales, and casting in The Lawless and Passage West. It folds in Joan Fontaine snow scenes plus a civic essay urging strong schools, free inquiry, and public duty with quotes from Mark Twain.

Mark Twain Mississippi River

Detective Peters Orions Ploy At Water Front Wedding

Detective Peters Orion poses as a wedding guest at a Miami affair. He bonds with June Ingalls by the pool, then keeps his cover while deciding to watch the gifts table and dodge the bride's friends. He contemplates his growing feelings and his own folly. June is unaware of his identity. The scene shifts to a ballroom interruption as a guest asks him to dance.

Orion Peters Orion June Ingalls June Jane Brewster Washington Police Howard Hughes Shimon

Congressional leaders clash over four billion aid package

Congress and Truman aides spar over a proposed four billion dollar plan to arm allies with Democratic Sen Tom Connally demanding redirection from ECA funds and Republican Dewey Short objecting to bypassing committees while Acheson defends urgency amid Western Europe needs.

Truman Tom Connally Texas Dewey Short Missouri Connally U S.A Acheson Europe ECA Congressman Short House White House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees Senate House Appropriations Congress Short

Crossword Puzzle Clue List

A long list of crossword clues across and down with number tags and hints for filling a grid. The items include definitions for single-spot cards mincing a simple gait and many other standard crossword prompts across two directions.

Adam Pope Harbor City Ind

Teddy bears flood charity ward amid family tragedy

A man gifts a five dollar teddy bear to a sick girl in a tenement, only to learn the bears came from donations to Tim and Peggy, a struggling couple. Peggy dies of leukemia after his disappearance. The hospital staff use the bears to bring joy to other sick children.

Charlie Fifth Avenue Tenth Avenue Tim Peggy

Notable Quotations and Witty Observations Collected

A collection of humorous maxims and quips on reputation marriage parenting and human folly. Includes lines about truth as a joke success obscuring blunders and the limits of heroism with a Moffat Ontario grocer noting anyone would have acted similarly.

Moffat Ontario

Culinary Tricks From Old Cookbook Fragments

A collection of vintage kitchen tips covers storing fruit cake, using damp towels or wine, fixing whipped creams, imitating sour cream with evaporated milk and vinegar, and shaping fruit cake in orange shells. It also suggests protecting cookies in transit, repurposing stale cake into desserts, and making a cheese onion spread for crackers.

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Inez Gerhard Osemary Clooney CBS Maysville Tony Pastor Clark Gable Gable Adolphe Menjou United States Numismatic Gallery of Beverly Hills Bill Pine Lalo Rios Rios Pine Thomas Joan Fontaine George Stevens Mrs. Grundy America Rosemary Clooney Detective Peters Rion Mr. Peters House Gop Joe Martin Capitol Hill Federal Maine James Melnerny Justice Department Senator Brewster Pan American Airways Arabia Marshky Meadow Tasmania Broadway Main Street By Billy Rose Billy Rosa Alexander Gun Customs of Edinburgh Yodora Betes, Lec Lydia E. Pinkham Pinkham Schimmel Yun Lincoln, Nebraska Ober Schimmel Flotels Omaha Blackstone Galesburg Custer Wichita Lassen
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