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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
5
A wartime column honors fallen soldiers in training camps and notes their equal share of glory. It pivots to Darwinian speculation on evolution, a claim about sulfur for influenza, a critique of poetic misusage, an aviator’s quick Dayton to Pittsburgh flight, cautions against saloon wealth dreams, tobacco linked baldness, and a call for clearer, wiser prose.
State Fair runs August 31 to September 5. Mrs J E Pelton and children visited Stromsburg relatives Sunday. A bright eyed baby boy gladdened the home of Mr and Mrs Oscar Stromberg Tuesday. Miss Mary Sigler returned to Lincoln last Friday after a short visit in the P T Larson home. She will leave soon for Washington to take up government work. Beulah Stevens was a Stromsburg visitor Saturday. Dave Anderson Genoa Wednesday. Snow fell for five minutes at Gorewell New York while the sun was shining Tuesday. The Ed Schultz family departed for Beatrice Wednesday morning after a telegram said Mrs Schultz's mother was dead.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw reflects on seven million one hundred thousand men killed in the great war and the immense sacrifice of women who bore, nursed, and mourned. She argues women suffer most, urging a League of Nations to secure peace and protect the future of mothers and their children.
A Valley county farmer recalls selling wheat at 60 cents a bushel corn at a quarter and hogs at three cents while criticizing political pressure and bypassing payments of 16 dollars for guidance on how to vote.
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