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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1929
Page
7
A 1929 Western Newspaper Union piece by THOMAS ARKLE CLARK reflects on stirring hornets nests and ant heaps. It cites a governor’s former house and a fall from grace after embezzlement and criminal misuse of funds, warning that rash ambition harms reputation and leads to prison.
The text reflects on early philosophical development and the consequences of hasty action. An African saying about throwing a stone into an ant heap illustrates how sudden provocation provokes violent, unavoidable retaliation and costly outcomes.
A rare Chaucer treatise on the Astrolabe from Sir Hercules Read's library sold at Sotheby's three day sale of old books and manuscripts for 1350. The Astrolabe text details star positions used by ancient astrologers and scientists.
The article argues that lunar tides aided prehistoric sea creatures to adapt to land by providing intermittent water access, guiding early breathing and behaviors as life moved onto land.
Amelia Earhart, aviation editor at Cosmopolitan, says a nationwide chain of aviation schools will launch in 1929 offering complete courses for sport and commercial pilots. Training now costs about 250 dollars for 10 to 12 hours of flight across 20 to 25 lessons, with cautions about barnstorming instructors and calls for Department of Commerce standards and frequent aircraft inspections.
Texas rail development lags in a vast frontier region where eight counties await steel rails. The area, fifteen times Rhode Island in size with only one seventh the population of Providence, relies on autos and pinto ponies for transport. Oil is limited to Crane county. cattle, wool, mohair flourish. plans discuss connecting Mason Kimble Sutton Crockett counties to the outside world.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts expedition links cremation to Mimbres culture about 2000 years ago in New Mexico. Finds include bone ash from crushed corn, a copper bell, shells, and a 150 room village with adobe and stone walls.
In Frankfurt a main Municipal theater production of Walter Hasenclever s Mariages Are Made in Heaven prompted public anger. A staging showing the Deity in golf clothes and knickerbockers led to vile bombs and tear gas, an empty house, and street fighting outside.
Watches and clocks produced in the United States this year will exceed 80 million dollars in value, nearly matching Switzerland and Germany for the first time. U.S. output has more than doubled in ten years and exports last year reached four percent of total production, up six percent from the year before.
Walter Hoover, former national sculling champion, has moved from Philadelphia to Brooklyn New York and is expected to row for a New York club in the future. Hoover previously represented the Undine Barge club of Philadelphia for many years.
The advertisement touts Gastoria Castoria as a widely used vegetable infant remedy. It claims relief from colic constipation and diarrhea with just a few drops and notes its safety for infants and frequent availability from druggists.
The three masted Success, believed oldest ship afloat, will sail to Australia for conversion into a floating museum. Built of teak in Burma in 1790, she has previously been shown in Ontario and carried emigrants in her early days.
Historical note on Dr Caldwell's early practice starting 1870s and the 1892 version of Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin liquid laxative. It promoted mild safe bowel stimulation for women children and elderly. Claims large selling status and relief for constipation, biliousness, indigestion and bad breath with free trial offer via Monticello Illinois.
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