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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
7
A vintage home remedy claims fast cold relief using whiskey glycerine and Concentrated pine compound. The mix is shaken before each dose and taken every four hours. Concentrated pine is sold in half ounce labeled air tight bottles.
Mrs Leeds, widow of Tinplate Trust magnate William Leeds, rebuffs Prince Murat and other aristocrats seeking marriage for status and fortune. The Rio repeat engagement follows their regatta yacht hospitality in Cowes and Paris society, with rivals including Prince Joachim Napoleon Murat and others.
The Maine based author John Kendrick Bangs recounts a campaign meeting where the crowd anticipated the big speaker. A fat band member snores during the second speech and Bangs jokes about waking him up as Bangs proceeds. The tale comes from Lippincott's.
The Paris Gaulois report shows 11 247 readers selecting 25 greatest authors to date. Victor Hugo Shakespeare Racine Corneille Vergil Moliere Homer Dante Goethe Bossuet La Fontaine Lamartine Chateaubriand Voltaire Cicero Pascal Musset Balzac Sophocles Horace Schiller Plato Cervantes J J Rousseau and Milton top the list with no living writer included and fourteen French names among the 25.
Miss Katherine Bradley Bigelow, ten, inherits a fortune of about $500000 under the will of Mrs. Ellen M. Hennessy. The inheritance is forfeited if she travels without a maid or chaperon or if she marries a divorced man or an actor.
A disputed will reduced a $45 09 legacy to Lucerne city to $4 000 after costs. The amount received by the council reflected deductions from probate disputes and legal expenses.
Five registered letters from Schuyler disappeared on The Overland Limited train No 2 on Friday November 5. The pouch catcher failed and the pouch fell under the wheels scattering mail. the letters were later found resting on the tracks under the dining car, unharmed, on the Union Pacific line.
Special schools for tuberculous children have been established in Providence Boston New York Rochester Washington Hartford Chicago and Pittsburg. New York has three and Washington two with plans for three more in New York City and similar in Detroit Buffalo Philadelphia Cincinnati Newark. Open air treatment in Providence Boston and New York shows strong outcomes with children able to recover and continue schooling safely.
George S. Parker recalls Grover Cleveland era politics and a tale of lavish campaign spending. A wealthy gubernatorial hopeful seeks William Whitney’s counsel and is urged to spend 200000 dollars to gain momentum and commitment.
Refrigerated staterooms are found on three new ships engaged in the fruit service between New Orleans and Colon. Each room is fitted with a cooling radiator connected to the refrigerating system used for preserving fruit in transit. Lest One should Fall. It is well to moor your bark with two anchors.
A Memphis wife recounts her husband’s illness linked to coffee and how stopping coffee and starting Postum improved his health. She notes a weight gain of thirty five pounds and resolution of stomach and heart trouble after about a year. The tale promotes Postum and mentions The Road to Wellville and the slogan There’s a Reason.
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