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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1950
Page
3
Classified snippet lists job for a supervisor to cook and serve meals at Girls Training School in Geneva Nebraska. Also mentions a personal contact for Wanda Hayes Welch and other local ads including electrology service, seeds and seed delivery in Ashland and Lincoln areas.
C W Troutt of Lebanon Tennessee a square dance manager and truck operator describes severe neuritis pains in knees ankles and wrists. He credits HADACOL with relief enabling sleep and activity and notes a money back guarantee with trial and hospital sizes priced at 1.25 and 3.50 respectively. product advertised by The LeBlanc Corporation Lafayette Louisiana in 1960.
Buffalo Bill's Model 73 Winchester, known as the gun that won the west, will join other Cody memorabilia in the Cody Memorial Museum at Cody. The rifle from Col Walter F Siegmund's private collection will be shown during Frontier Day, with autographs of World War II heroes added.
Farmers can maximize tire life and efficiency with eight tips from the B F Goodrich farm service department. Check air pressure twice monthly, read when cool, avoid hot-air release, keep tires clean, avoid overfilling liquid weights, jack and cover idle tractors, use valve caps, inspect for damage, choose correct size, and drive carefully on highways.
Beverly Bowler Babcock, 3 years old, and Jerard Jennings, 6, vie for title of America’s greatest child prodigy. Beverly with perfect pitch and memory can play after hearing a piece once, while Jerard trains in piano and organ works by Brahms Mozart and Chopin. Beverly’s parents Beverly and David Babcock are Newport News music teachers who first noticed her ear for music in fall. Jerard is Newark Connecticut native son of Frances Hayes, famed Broadway dancer, and his father is a research engineer.
America's outstanding prodigies keep imagination and mischief, living normal lives despite fame and frequent radio and concert appearances. Beverly stays calm before audiences yet shy with company. Jerard, eyeing the future, told Lion Club attendees he also wants to be a lion tamer when he grows up.
Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan paid tribute to three million homemakers in home demonstration work in special messages during Home Demonstration week. He urged better informed, more prosperous, healthier and happier rural people as key assets to democracy and asked homemakers to be conscious of their efforts at home.
Historic note recalls Galileo 300 years ago challenging Aristotle’s claim that heavier objects fall faster. He dropped a half pound weight and a 100 pound cannonball from Pisa’s tower. Both hit the ground together, while scholars searched Aristotle for a page and line to refute him.
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