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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1912
Page
6
A tattered page notes a marital dispute with a neighbor remark about a new “papa” for a child and a sharp exchange over an ending. The snippet includes medical ad lines for treatments and child soothing syrup with pricing.
The Hangchow bore, a tidal surge from the Pacific, roars through Hangchow bay and the Tsientang river, reaching ten feet on the wall and nineteen feet inland. Chinese embankments, stone sea walls, and a Junk platform defend the shore while spectators worship the Spirit of the Sea at Haining amid a crowded ceremony overseen by local officials.
A collage of quips and quibbles from late 19th and early 20th century humor pages. Snatches include juror looks, recall jokes, cemetery notes, old-time slang, and mock dialogue about ballots, family squabbles, and a joking world war in 1925 or sooner.
A brief exchange notes birds of a feather flocking together. The speaker recalls collecting bats on a lark and taking swallows, then confessing the next day they were eating crow. The lines mix whimsy with self mockery about outcomes.
A cryptic remark notes a friend’s odd reaction when asked about interest in the shut-in movement. The line ends with a quip that he is the warden of two jails, implying a suspicious or humorous link between involvement and confinement.
A Wisconsin woman secured a Canadian Government certificate to travel at reduced rail fare to Edmonton Alberta where she found friends and a promising homestead. She describes abundant wild fruit a thriving farm with oats barley alfalfa potatoes vegetables cattle and a large chicken herd along with a weekly butter yield. The letter highlights Alberta’s beauty climate and upbuilding potential and notes Gov ernment literature with similar enthusiastic reports.
Ottumwa Iowa woman reports long lasting female troubles improved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after many doctors. She urges others to try the remedy and notes letters are answered by a woman at the company in Lynn Massachusetts.
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