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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1919
Page
7
An advertisement prose praises Dr Pierce's Pellets as a ready to use remedy for constipation indigestion and debility claiming the body harms toxins and waste without surgery. The copy mentions a Mrs Cane at 829 S Grant Streak and markets the product as superior to others.
Nebraska county health boards form to combat influenza in 1919. Omaha and Fremont report influenza cases with public gatherings banned then lifted. Wheat oats and potato crops valued at 344 million dollars. new Omaha auto tax takes effect.
The governors urge ratification of the national Prohibition amendment and push for four year terms for state officials. Neville calls for a state house monument, language bans in schools, and reform of the constitutional framework. McKelvie favors a new cabinet and road, vocational, and tax policies, plus state funding aims.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 will was read at Sagamore Hill and filed with Nassau County surrogates. The estate value was not disclosed, but believed not to exceed 500000. The will sets trust for the widow for life with her power to dispose by will, and if she dies without a will the estate goes to the children equally. In a separate item, the Packers Washington reform era is noted amid meat price profiteering and calls for control of private cars stockyards and terminals.
Guidance on nursing duties for contagious disease in a household. Emphasizes fresh air, changing clothing in a adjacent room, bathing before contact, and using a quarantine bathroom or screen and basin. Advises exit by back way to minimize contact with others and notes broader concerns about infant safety and public health.
Paris reports propose that British war cabinet ideas on a league of nations may be adopted by the peace conference. American delegates study the proposals as Lord Cecil and other cabinet members push for expanded league power and provisional German membership.
Mrs. Alice Hetter of Christopher Illinois credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing years of nervous weakness irregularities and poor health after two doctors failed. The ad urges readers to write Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. for ailments and notes its long experience serving women.
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional treatment taken internally. It claims to cure catarrh by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces and offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure. testimonials and address for F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio.
Ohio becomes seventeenth state to back the national prohibition amendment. Colorado and Oklahoma ratify the measure the same day. In New York, Boy Scouts of America with 440,000 members are directed to plant trees in memory of Theodore Roosevelt with a formal ceremony.
A brief exchange in a department store features a mother questioning the price of a coat for a young girl. The saleslady replies that little folks are expensive, and the child retorts that without little people there would be no one to grow into big people. A short quip follows about brains and a first poem.
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