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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
7
A light page presents jokes and quips about army ranks, long holidays, household bills, and business double entries. It includes a lance corporal's wife note, a seaside holiday pun, club shined up banter, a bathtub versus telephone gag, and a three entry accounting joke.
A readable collection of short maxims from various authors. The quotes stress learning from past errors and deriving benefit from experience. It contrasts thought and action and notes how work leads to play, defines trust through shared inheritance, and extols virtue, abstinence, and confidence.
The piece sketches a mock cabinet gathering with Knox Stimson Ickes Hopkins Morgenthau Perkins and Hull as well as a joke line about singeing the gang. It then shifts to television opera trends with Elmer Twitchell describing dressing for TV opera and a humorous domestic reaction. It ends with proverbs for 1940 about ethics and proficiency.
The lesson explores Job's struggle with suffering and his growing faith in a future life. It highlights three themes uncertainty hope and faith with references to Job 14:13-17 17:13-16 and Job 19:25 as well as John 11:25. It notes Job's peers Eliphaz Bildad and Zophar and contrasts his hope with despair while stressing belief in a Redeemer and life after death.
A religious excerpt from Peter declares believers are begotten by mercy and have an incorruptible undefiled inheritance in heaven reserved for them. The passage emphasizes hope through Christ and eternal inheritance.
Health column by Dr. James W. Barton compares reducing diet and exercise for weight loss. He argues exercise builds muscle and aids long term fat loss but warns appetite and thirst can counteract gains. The piece cites Newsweek and Dr. C. C. Sturgis on fat versus water loss in weight reduction.
The article reviews insulin origins by Banting Best and Collip, notes that protamine zinc insulin reduces dosing frequency yet may raise diabetes cases by about 70 000, and includes a Q A on deodorant and iron rich foods with medical advice.
Pattern I describes a summer frock in printed silk or light cottons with open sleeves heart-shaped neckline and frills. The design features a circular skirt with gentle fullness and minimal detailing, suitable for beginners with simple gathers at the waist.
Includes a step by step sew chart and guidance to repeat the design. Pattern No 8729 lists fabric needs for size 14 as four and a half yards of 39 inch material without nap and two and a half yards of ruffling. Orders should be sent to:
Answers reveal intense sound waves can be photographed. twenty one cannon salutes for the President. a person may have up to five of the standard nine fingerprints. Tippecanoe fought in Indiana near Lafayette. the raccoon is called the bear’s little brother for its bearlike walk.
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