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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
7
The piece argues that growth comes from silent, surrendered effort like a lily. Noise signals progress in cities, but true development in beauty requires obedience to natural law. Emerson is cited on surrendering to a great ideal to become great, shaping service with faithfulness and growth. It ends with the moral that our best is found in obeying the best laws.
A roundup on household linens notes like 108 inch sheets and true size lines, with tips on thread count and reinforced hems. A feature on 18th century cabinet maker Thomas Chippendale describes his versatile furniture, influences, and distinctive chair backs across styles.
Yale professor G R Wieland announces a planned national fossil cycad museum in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota. A vast petrified forest dating back 120 million years will be exhibited at the monument with designs by Yale architecture students and an estimated cost of 65000 dollars.
The earliest evidence of human occupation in the United States appears in the desert regions of California Arizona and New Mexico once the sites of lakes. Shores supported powerful tribes while explorers found living in arid zones the less powerful tribes and fleet-footed herbivores such as antelope bison and jackrabbits.
A Florida memorial on the Sing ing Tower stone honors Edward Holt with the inscription Consider the lilies. The lines praise nature and its connection to divine feeling, noting flowers' power to express beauty and the inspiration drawn from nature for art and literature.
A reflective note from the Western Newspaper Union comparing a man’s growth to lil ies that neither talk nor spin yet ease toil. The piece suggests inner growth comes from effort to become worthy, while nature offers gentle cleansing of pride.
Star Dust reports Dan Bennett signing with a Cape Cod stock company for a summer run stirring Hollywood. News notes include Lena’s excitement over Captains Courageous with Tracy and Bartholomew and Lubitsch eyeing Napoleon in Bucaneer with DeMille.
Pattern 800 offers a full apron design with yoke border and pocket in contrasting material. Includes transfer motifs 1 1 by 9 5 inches and 4 by 4 1/2 inches, applique pieces, color hints, and stitch directions. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York for patterns.
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