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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1949
Page
7
The columnist recounts a Texas widow seeking suitors after a late husband. The letter reveals selfish expectations for a second marriage, risking children’s stability as a new husband vies for control and money.
A railroad traveller buys a long distance ticket but receives only a local fare. The conductor orders him off or extra payment, then forcibly ejects him from his seat after a dispute.
The Ayrshire breeders association maintains average production records for cows with about 16 000 cows on test. A railway case ruled a passenger must pay fare difference at once. another case held an actress need not return to chorus to claim full breach of contract.
A policeman summoned to a cafe to arrest a drunken patron orders compliance. The man resists, the officer cuffs the left wrist and orders a blow to the right. When he refuses, the officer slaps the man three times and takes him to jail.
A man sued a released officer for unnecessary roughness and won. The court condemned the officer as a vicious brutality and ordered damages to the victim. The judge said citizens are not required to jump at a officer’s finger.
A vacant lot owner allowed an advertising company to erect a billboard. Neighbors sued for a stop order claiming the lot is restricted to residential use. The court held that billboard advertising is a business function and not allowed on the residential property.
A widow living beside a railroad track sued the railroad for emotional distress after two freight trains collided and toppled a car into her yard. She suffered no physical injuries but claimed fright and trauma. The court rejected her suit, ruling no damages for fear.
Home owners can protect property in basements from mold rust and mildew with inexpensive dehumidifiers or calcium chloride chemical absorbent. Calcium chloride, once scarce during war years, is now plentiful and available through hardware and lumber dealers. Dehumidifier designs show a container for the air-exposed absorbent flakes.
More than 6 500 rural men and women in 43 Montana counties volunteered in 1948 to help county extension agents improve farming and homemaking methods and rural community living, per the year end report by R B Toothill director of the agricultural extension service at Montana State College.
A columnist debates baseball origins citing a 1833 letter and claims of pre Lincoln and pre Doubleday play. The piece quotes Will Irwin and notes early forms, hand pitching, and the need for veteran onlookers to coach in baseball.
The text suggests percolating coffee for five to ten minutes once the water turns amber and drying stockings quickly by squeezing, rolling in a Turkish towel for five minutes, then hanging in a dry airy place to finish.
Tips for home care including a rain boot box to keep rubbers and galoshes, slant threading to guide thread through a needle eye, a trunk packing tip with a lid notches, better drying of heavy garments on hangers, and weekly mop washing with boiling suds and soda for cleaner floors.
1. President Harry S. Truman. 2. Making peace. 3. Senora. 4. Civilian Conservation Corps. 5. Paul Whiteman.
Archaeologists uncover a pagan Saxon graveyard at Farthing Down Coulsdon with a two year old boy’s toy iron spear in a child’s skeleton and a girl’s burial with beads. An elderly man’s leg and ankle bones show squatting customs of a chairless primitive home.
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