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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1929
Page
8
A newly erected Atlantic City auditorium seats 40 000 and is described as the largest gathering place in the world. The article notes widespread family ownership of pleasure motor cars and references general orders and pharmacy tone.
A fragment describes gems such as diamond ruby emerald amethyst and bloodstone with claims that they confer qualities like speech prowess, beauty, sincerity, and success in love. It mentions a belief that the Blartey stone grants peculiar skill in speech.
Nebraska ranks seventeenth in college land value twenty-fifth in building value sixteenth in male enrollment and fourteenth in female enrollment. The state leads in gravel road mileage with federal aid second only to Texas. Paroles and commutations were reviewed for 417 offenders with 47 violating trust. Plans include a $65,000 Clay Center hotel opposite the courthouse. Lumber dealer foresees 25 percent more farm building this year. Eight rural Buffalo county schools to be built before September. Wausa selects library site and opens a new park with pool tennis court and playground.
Shower hosted by Mie Lawrence Sundberg of Polk honored Miss Berenice Carlson, a former district 26 teacher, with gifts and a pink and white two course luncheon. Attendees included District 26 ladies, Mrs Orlie Miller, Mrs Oscar Jones, Mrs Wayne Stevens, Mrs Irvin Anderson, Fern Williams, Mrs Anton Carlson and daughters Berenice and Laura, and Mrs Clarence Carlson Headlight.
Friends and relatives are noted in Julesburg Colorado and nearby towns with updates on illness and deaths. John Theis has been ill for four months at home, Miss Margaret Emken visited from Boeken Bow, and Mr. Flick’s funeral was held Thursday. Theiss, Hitchcock, and Elizabeth from Chicago attended. Loran Flick returned home to Whitman, Mrs. Rice visited from California. Lewis Bedient, longtime resident, died near Amboy Illinois last week. Dwaine Lewis sustained facial injuries from barbed wire at his uncle Irvin Rystrom's farm, requiring about 25 stitches. Mrs. Haroḑ Bedient recovered enough to attend church after an automobile accident.
Larson of Hordville plans relocation to Central City with his family as soon as a suitable tomb is secured. He will continue selling Hudson and Essex cars and has leased the Sinclair filling station beside his garage to expand his Hudson Essex venture. He and his wife have three children and he has kept a growing automobile business.
A whimsical item notes President Hoover spending a weekend outdoors fishing and sleeping outside, attending rural Sunday school, and not yet appearing in popular cowboy chips. The piece stresses shared down to earth qualities despite political disagreements.
Polk hosts a Chautauqua on July 1 2 3 4 featuring community talks and performances. Felton Pharmacy promotes wall paper while Johnson Cafe offers meals and short orders the kind you like.
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