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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1938
Page
3
A quick easy dish using asparagus on toast with a cheese sauce. Build sauce from butter flour milk and cheese or use canned soup for flavor and speed. Heat spears, toast, top, and serve with optional fried pineapple if desired. MARJORIE H BLACK.
The tale recounts Abraham Lincoln asking a deputation how many legs a sheep would have if its tail were called a leg. They answer quickly. Lincoln responds that it would still have four legs, noting naming a tail a leg does not change its nature.
Doris Dene replies to letters about a 21 year old engaged woman facing her lover’s father ban on contact and a high school girl seeking social acceptance. She argues for fair trials, warns against hasty judgments, and outlines steps for self-analysis and personal improvement to foster popularity and vitality.
A religious lesson analyzes Mark 2 23 36 about the Sabbath. It argues true spirituality unmasked by Phariseeism, the Lord s Day as a day for rest worship and mercy, and the right use of righteous indignation in defense of holy values.
The piece traces Epsilon Aurigae’s discovery linking to Dr. Otto Struve at Yerkes Observatory after a century of events sparked by Napoleon era escapes. It blends astronomy history with a portrait of Struve, his lineage, and the telescope era. It also profiles Bennie Goodman’s Hollywood Hotel stardom and music earnings.
A list of ten trivia prompts covering extreme cold records biographies language of a Philippine commonwealth division of the Ten Commandments Davy Jones depictions levirate marriage recent Lake Michigan diving record political procedures the Greek monks peninsula with no female visitors and a children's song about a mulberry bush.
A mixed set of trivia notes lists sacred duties versus neighborly duties, the evil sea spirit, Hebrew levirate practice, Max Nohl’s lake record in Lake Michigan, a claim no one could cast the deciding vote, Mount Athos monk community with Queen Elizabeth of Romania as sole visitor, contrasts American and French mulberry, Verkhoyansk cold record, Jesus and Napoleon, Lincoln and Washington among Americans, Tagalog language influences with Spanish English and Chinese.
A reader explains the term ump used for molasses in a Negro cook’s gingerbread recipe. She says the last addition is three ums of molasses and laughs at the idea of pouring molasses from a jug that seems to utter ump ump ump.
Practical advice on kitchen tasks and simple recipes. Boiling suet pudding with orange rind to remove grease, a pin cushion bracelet for home dressmaking, stuffing with bacon for flavor, soaking potatoes before baking, shredding greens with old shears, and a haddock with tomatoes dish with butter onion parsley and gentle heat.
The term describes a method where a labor union and an employer negotiate wages hours and working conditions on behalf of employees as a group. Representatives confer to settle disputes and secure benefits not attainable by individuals alone.
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