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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
7
The National Safety Council warns the holidays are the year s most dangerous time with auto accidents home fires burns and falls. Read these safety tips avoid tragedy including safe toys tree fire protection ladder use candles near decorations and careful driving through the season ending with a reminder to drive carefully or risk not living to see 1941.
City residents revel in a long running December display of rockets and firecrackers along Canal Street. Families, both rich and poor, join in nightly parades and doorbell raids as the sky lights up and streets fill with the acrid scent of gunpowder and the scent of Christmas roses.
A simple home method to keep Christmas tree needles from falling involves trimming the base, watering the tree, and adding a teaspoon of sugar to the water. The exposed fresh wood absorbs moisture and the sugar nourishes needles to help them stay on longer.
A compilation of Christmas week forecasts and beliefs about coming weather. Proverb clues link sun on Christmas to crops, ice strength, and seasonal outcomes, noting that a green Christmas foreshadows cold later and other contrasts between Christmas conditions and spring results.
Armine von Tempski recalls Christmas on Maui and Hawaii's islands blending cowboys and tropical music. She describes Christmas Eve on Haleakala slopes with paniolos, horses, and guitars. Diverse Americans Hawaiians Japanese Chinese Portuguese mingle under one roof, each adding its own flavor to the Birthday of all birthdays.
If you doubt certain lamps in your tree string, remove a regular lamp from a five cell flashlight and screw in the bulbs one at a time. The bulbs will glow faintly with low current if still good, while burned out lamps fail to glow.
Dr James W Barton explains goiter treatment options from iodine therapy to X ray and rest. He notes severe exophthalmic goiter once required distant specialist care and now many cases are resolved with hospital surgery or non surgical methods.
Drs Redisch and Perloff outline criteria for thyroid surgery and discuss iodine therapy. They report iodine alone offers variable results with about 10 percent fully cured, 40 percent symptom free during iodine use, and nearly 50 percent improved but still symptomatic. Some cases respond to rest, while others need surgery or X rays.
Dr. L H Criep notes dizziness and vertigo can stem from food allergy, causing inner ear inflammation and balance disruption. He cautions that tumors infections poisoning or bleeding in the ear must be ruled out before blaming allergy.
A reader asks if high blood pressure is dangerous to stroke patients. The answer explains that a family physician evaluates each patient after a stroke, prescribes rest in bed for weeks, then a tailored amount of exercise. Small meals four times daily may replace the usual meals, and medications may be given to ease symptoms.
A December lesson stresses Christ’s return as urgent for believers. It urges readiness, watchfulness, and active gospel work, warning that delay breeds unbelief and lax Christian living. Preachers and workers must faithfully steward opportunities to spread the Word and influence others toward righteousness.
Ruth Wyeth Smith presents a seam guidance feature detailing reimagining a dull hall. A shabby carpet is dyed green, new curtain panels replace worn drapes, and three small red-framed mirrors form a decorative arrangement.
Salt meat needs a longer boil than fresh meat. To prevent rust in the stove oven, keep the door open an hour after baking. Oatmeal on a damp cloth cleans white paint.
Instructions for making medallions with a pattern and materials, plus tips for kitchen and around the home. Tips include refreshing stale baked goods with milk, removing rust with cream of tartar, greasing hot popover pans, cleaning suede rain spots, covering roof stains with magnesia, washing wicker chairs, and rehydrating dry lemons.
A sentimental reflection credits Thackeray with saying that the living carry love for those who are gone, and those departed continue to love in return, a timeless vow of enduring affection.
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