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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1919
Page
9
Buick promotes its Valve-in-Head motor as the core of power in the automobile, tracing its design to early industry roots and backed by two decades of manufacturing experience. It asserts Buick power travels with quiet, steady, and irresistible performance, appealing to about five hundred thousand owners who prize power above all.
A collage of old ads touts Peerless Stock and Fireworks at The 3 Variety Store plus promotions for Crow's and the Ice Repair Shop. It notes wedding stationery from Progress office and visiting cards from Thrift, with Thrift stamps urged for smart savings. The ad row includes Hall's Catarrh Medicine testimonials and a 19th century notice of a monetary offer for cured cases.
War diary vivid with American forces in the Marne region near Chateau-Thierry. The advance, bombardment, and chaos unfold as shells crater trees and fields while reporters and troops vie to reach a target point.
A war correspondent describes United States Hospital No 117 near Toul, a nerve clinic for shell shock victims started in 1917. Staff use rest, electricity, work therapy, gardens, and music to restore speech hearing and sight, with a special case board to guide transfers.
A large cattle and sheep run at Union Stock Yards South Omaha resulted in slow trade and lower prices. Cattle averaged about a dollar lower than last week with best yearlings at 14.00 to 14.15 and prices across beefsteers and cows down. Hog receipts were strong with steady to higher bids, while lambs and sheep fell about 1.00, best spring lambs at 16.50 to 16.60.
A collection of quoted remarks about dreams and waking prompts reflections on sleep. The exchange contrasts poetic imagery with practical advice as someone comments on dream duration and staying awake. The tone is fragmentary and introspective, suggesting a surreal dialogue.
A casual exchange jokes about metapsychism and the idea of a soul inhabiting another body. The speakers tease about a jackass becoming a host after death, mixing philosophy and humor.
In a French Lorraine hamlet between opposing trenches a lone elderly woman stayed put despite orders. She cared for both sides as battles raged and food was sent to her. When she died a grave was laid between the lines with two crosses bearing the inscription She Was the Mother of the Trenches, and lilies were planted about it.
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