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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1948
Page
5
A church notice page lists events and greetings from Wordville Baptist Church Hordville Methodist Arborville Congregation Evangelical Free Church and others. It notes sermons, Sunday School times, special music, prayer meetings, and family visits as well as recent pastoral travels and local group activities.
Swede Plain Church offers morning worship at 10 a m and church school at 11 a m. Polk Church hosts church school at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m.
Archaeologists in Guatemala uncover a long rectangular ball court at Zaculeu where watchers gathered to see a forerunner of soccer. Mayan players prayed overnight before games and bet personal property, land, and even liberty. A winning player was celebrated as a national hero.
The article traces Caminello Vitelli of Pistoria Italy around 1540 creating a light single shot pistol. It notes early hand weapons gave way to the Colt revolver centuries later and highlights frontier marksmen like William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill.
Over the last two years Brazilian waterweed has endangered Oregon lakes by encroaching on recreational and industrial water use. Native species such as American waterweed coontail pond weeds and algae also cause issues. Public plantings and sales by aquatic nurseries contribute to the problem, with motives to attract wildlife often masking harmful effects.
Extension soil conservationist Hugh Wilson of Cornell notes that removing plant food, tillage, and erosion drain soil on slopes. A 300 bushel potato crop can remove 63 lb nitrogen 27 lb phosphorus and 90 lb potash, needing about 1200 lb 5-10-5 fertilizer plus extra to cover leaching fixation and erosion losses.
For a thousand years attempts to reach the polar region failed without dogs as sled pullers. Reindeer and ponies also failed until dogs hauled sledges, enabling key polar discoveries in under a century. Aircraft later supplemented the effort, but dogs remain the primary slow exploration method.
The article compares suede and doeskin glove leathers detailing tanning times and costs. Suede finishes on the flesh side tan in about three weeks while doeskin, with grain removed, can take six months and costs more but wears longer and fits better.
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