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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1937
Page
7
A sermon on consecration urging Christians to live for Christ now not later. Paul’s example in Philippians 1 12 26 shows commitment in life and even in imprisonment. If Christ is your life then the New Year becomes full and purposeful.
A quoted passage portrays a false accuser as a dangerous monster, described by Demos Thenes as malignant and eager to seek causes of complaint. The tone critiques slander and emphasizes the harm of false accusations.
Medical notes discuss ongoing appendicitis symptoms after appendix removal, urging thorough X-ray checks of stomach to kidneys to locate other causes. The piece also explains how weight, underweight or overweight, impacts health and energy, linking extremes to systemic stress and disease risk.
A Gulf Coast columnist muses on conservation in Texas and recalls past wildlife counts. The piece shifts to a critique of superstition and leadership, lampoons fashion and manners from Victorian to modern times, and ends by praising Dickens and contrasting fictional grotesques with real types like Sam Weller and Huck Finn.
Natalie Parker returns to Hillsboro with a bundle of Christmas gifts that tumble loose and reveal her chance meeting with Bruce Draper. They rekindle affection amid festive decor, lighted windows, and a warm hearth, ending with a plan to restore the Parker homestead and invite Amanda back.
Instructions describe sewing a curved front dressing table skirt with a buckram band and taped cords for shirring. It covers mounting, ruffle shirring, and joining to the buckram, plus details on a new sewing book by Mrs. Spears with 48 pages of home crafts and an order address in Chicago where readers send 25 cents.
The note argues for valuing precedent while cautioning against contempt. It weighs human empathy, primitive instincts, and restraint in fashion and behavior. It suggests happiness over sorrow in retrospection and notes the Bible as a source of conscience while praising poised conduct for young women.
Advice urges nurturing respect for animals in youngsters to prevent cruelty and animal biting or scratching as self defense, emphasizing character building and protection.
A warm hearty dessert pairing canned fruit with a simple cake batter. Use apricots peaches loganberries cherries or similar and top with a hot syrup or thickened sauce. Batter blends egg sugar flour baking powder milk and vanilla then bakes 30 40 minutes at 350 degrees serves six.
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