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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
7
A granddaughter reads a two hundred year old diary set in 1765. The girl recounts a white Christmas at Weston with a betrothed named Charles and kinfolk. She recalls gifts, the Calverts dance, a Washington kiss, and a moral on avoiding quarrels for love.
A historical note recalls Clement Clarke Moore, author of the Santa Claus poem, his New York childhood at Ninth Avenue, his life at the Chelsea house, and how his verse first appeared in the Troy Sentinel in 1823 before being translated worldwide. He died in Newport in 1863.
An old text discusses the Yule log ceremony as a major family event on Christmas Eve and the belief that a steady burn foresees good luck. It notes possible links to ancient and medieval customs, including palm branches at solstice and candles on doors to greet guests.
A government education piece explains milk’s essential role in child growth and health. It notes undernutrition across classes, urges better feeding choices, and cites charts, lectures, and home demonstrations by the Dairy Division and state partners. Children given one pint of milk daily for two months show remarkable gains.
Home economists in the United States Department of Agriculture urge using sugar substitutes to stretch limited supplies. Readers are advised to consult wartime conservation cookbooks and try recipes with little or no sugar such as chocolate cake with corn syrup, muffin tin spice cakes, oat meal drop cakes, and gingerbread, all designed to save both sugar and wheat while offering acceptable flavor.
A brief note suggests saving worn handkerchiefs for multiple domestic uses. It mentions small pieces suitable for a baby’s face cloth and larger pieces as washcloths or towels for a child. The text emphasizes reusing fabric remnants in the home.
This fragment outlines kitchen paper uses such as draining fried foods, lining cake pans, and wrapping sandwiches. It notes brown grocery paper, paraffin paper, newspaper scraps for under pans, and tissue paper for greasy pots, emphasizing cleanliness and utility.
Instructions on fitting and maintaining shoes to extend wear. Emphasizes proper sizing, care routines, cleaning, drying, and repairing minor damages to preserve shape and longevity of leather, kid, and canvas footwear.
Pork pie is an old New England dish which might well be revived. Vinegar rubbed on discolored steel provides a quick polish. To get real flavor mix mustard with salad oil only. A tablespoonful of vinegar in a warm bath relieves fatigue. Vinegar and stale bread applied as a poultice to a corn for two weeks may cure it.
A laboratory tour shows the making of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. The article notes extensive herbal ingredients, sterilized utensils, pasteurization, and sealed sterile bottles. It cites letters from women restored to health as proof of its virtue and emphasizes cleanliness and precision in production.
In a lighthearted exchange, a reform move questions drunkenness as stage humor while joking about retaining the seltzer siphon as a prop. The remark hints at quieter backstage policy debates and comic device limits.
An advertisement touts Bayer as the genuine aspirin with the label Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer packaging. It lists approved uses including headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism and notes a 12 tablet tin costs a few cents. The ad states Bayer is the 19 year physician prescribed trademark for monoacetic acid ester of salicylic acid. It ends with a separate quip about love and two women.
An old advertisement touts a Cun trio of soap ointment and talcum powder. It promotes a heavy skin antiseptic powder as an economical perfume and convenient dusting option for face skin and babies.
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