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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1939
Page
3
A father discovers Johnny stalls on his homework awaiting a news bulletin. The boy insists he must hear the latest headlines to finish a map of Europe.
A theater veteran’s son is praised as a chip off the old block but a critic quips that he is a slice of the old ham, reflecting on inherited fame and a family legacy in show business.
Mrs Crabshaw complains about unbearable conduct while Crabshaw asks how soon the change will come. The snippet captures a tense domestic moment with brisk dialogue and implied urgency.
The bride plans to rummage in her mother’s attic for possibilities, transforming a dresser with varnish remover into a chest and a mirror set in an old frame. The feature notes upcoming reveal of the stool and mirror next week and promotes sewing books and quilt block patterns from Mrs. Spears with affordable postpaid prices.
The clock by Lodewyk Zim mer of Lierre features 98 dials displaying world times, celestial movements, tides, and key data. Hands vary in speed from a rapid 100 revolutions per second to one turn every 26 000 years, with the piece exhibited in New York.
A compact quotation from Confucius on the balance between learning and thinking. It warns that learning without thought is labor lost while thought without learning is perilous.
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