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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
7
New York reports widespread reductions in department store prices and surges in wholesale discounts. Dealers foresee a permanent downward trend with silks and cotton goods easing, while overstocked clothing lines shift to higher quality lines and fewer sales expected next season.
Detroit city council imposed a 100 percent increase in assessed valuation on Jacob Shevitz, owner of a nine family apartment house, after he was accused of raising rents from 42 to 90 dollars per month.
Miss Emma Huff was to wed Bert Treadway, but officers arrested him on a murder charge after he confessed to killing Charlies Scott. Treadway faces a life term in the state penitentiary.
A Coeburne youth who buried a barrel of whisky before joining the army has been discharged and now holds $1,200 more wealth. Revenue officers seek details on the sale and the buyer he led to profit.
Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice led a party to Brazil Venezuela and Colombia where near the Orinoco they clashed with giant cannibals described as Guaribos. Firearms drove off the attackers with two or three slain. Mrs Rice traveled farther than any white woman since 1763. They charted the Rio Negro Amazonas Casquiste canal and Upper Orinoco with specimens for Harvard Peabody.
Chicago report on Dr. Victor D. Lespinasse of Northwestern University showing a hen developed rooster traits after interstitial island transplant from a rooster. Hen grew comb wattles feathers and finally Spurs lording over others in barnyard. Also notes Siamese twin dogs briefly mentioned and a Kentucky train incident with Rev Father Rowlett.
Upstate fox farm owner H M Bacon, president of New York For Auction Sales, appeals for mother cats to nurse silver fox kits. He offers $2.50 for six weeks of nursing, after which the kits can eat solid food.
The richest African American girl in the United States is Sarah Rector, eighteen, a resident near Muskogee Oklahoma. Despite owning land deemed worthless, she has become worth about one and a half million dollars.
Webster county cattle club holds fifty three members tending sixty three purebred calves valued at $15715. Omaha group funds Father Planigan school. Lincoln aviator Harry Hiles buys third plane for ranching operations. Ainsworth paving expands to 26 blocks. Farmers Telephone Co of Dodge gets 300 stock shares for extensions. G A R reappoints Assistant Adjutant General Bross. Ewing fights suburban voting inclusion. June 7 graduation at state university agriculture and home economics. Tornadoes hit Pender and vicinity. crops damaged. Wool growers organize state pool for 1920 clip. Jefferson county road progress and bank robbery losses revealed. Tuberculosis tests in Boyd county Shorthorns show disease-free herd. Lincoln bankers seek presidential pardon for Matters. Howe bank robbery foiled. three suspects caught. South Omaha car supply improving. Nebraska assessment rolls rise to 770 million. Omaha federal reserve notes credit demand. Omaha Chicago air mail on schedule. Wakefield triplets born weighing eight pounds each. Nebraska ranks 22nd in state school efficiency. Norfolk population rises to 684. Lincoln deputy labor commissioner named. North Platte area crops damaged by hail. University Farm hosts large poultry and field day. Plattsmouth votes street paving district.
Mr E J Toupalik of 1458 Rose Street LaCrosse Wisconsin recounts twenty six years of chronic bronchitis with annual winter hoarseness and poor relief until using PERU-NA. After three quarters of a bottle hoarseness and fatigue faded and he plans to keep PERU-NA in his home. The product is advertised for catarrh related ailments with tablet or liquid forms.
A person notes that whenever a modest girl sees a man look her way she imagines flirtation in his intent, revealing a patterns of misinterpretation of social cues and personal insecurity.
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