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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
7
Dorothy and friends travel through Oz toward Glinda the Good Witch in the Quadlings country. They meet winged monkeys and the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Lion face dangers before reaching Glinda who will help Dorothy return to Kansas.
Dorothy, with Toto, bids farewell to Glinda and her friends after learning her silver shoes can return her to Kansas in three steps. Glinda assigns the Winged Monkeys to aid the Scarecrow Tin Woodman and Lion, who each express their desires before Dorothy uses the shoes to go home.
A fragment from a Boston Journal item describes Dorothy landing on the Kansas prairie near Uncle Henry’s new farmhouse. Toto is safe in the barn as Aunt Em greets her daughter saying she is glad to be home again after the Land of Oz episode.
John D. Rockefeller Jr., heir to a vast fortune, serves as foreman of a special grand jury in New York City investigating the white slave traffic. He was sworn in after initially pleading illness, and led daily sessions for a month as the jury prepared its report to Judge O Sullivan. Charles Whitman, newly inaugurated district attorney, began the inquiry with staffers and urged public evidence on the traffic.
A fragment from a historical column recounts a Civil War exchange with Gen. Grant about Petersburg and heaven or hell. It then shifts to a Philadelphia Public Ledger anecdote where a waiter favors an American eagle on a silver dollar as his preferred game,, capturing era voices and humor.
A Kansas City Journal fragment notes chatter in the cutchawed crowd over a claim that Paul Revere never made his famed midnight ride. The exchange hints at the poem’s line about few remembering that day and year.
Gen Leonard Wood, commander of the Department of the East, will become army chief of staff succeeding Gen J Franklin Bell. At 49 he rose from assistant surgeon in 1886 to top post, with a storied record from Geronimo campaigns to the Philippines and Cuba, aided by Theodore Roosevelt’s influence.
Mrs. Morse, wife of Charles W. Morse once dubbed king of New York, begins a pardon petition from Atlanta where he is jailed. She has sold home, jewels, sealskins and other assets to finance the effort and collects letters of support while Morse remains in a steel cell in the tailor shop. She is the second wife of the financier, formerly Mrs. Clemence Cowles Dadge.
The new king, formerly Prince Albert, is 29 and six feet three inches tall. He is described as the opposite of his notorious uncle and has maintained ties with both sides, including the socialistic element. He married Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria in a love match and their marriage has been scandal free. An athletic, military trained heir, he aims to quell Congo atrocities and oversee reforms as Congo becomes national property next year. Albert also spent eight months in America in 1898.
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