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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1936
Page
8
In a tense chamber, I confront Pharaoh as Rush dies and Helena hides. I devise a ruse with a dead man posed as alive while I ready to strike, then gunfire erupts as Dewdrop and Bugle approach. The outcome hinges on Pharaoh’s realization and a dangerous escape plan.
The narrator describes an ambush in a locked room as Pharaoh fires at him and shatters a torch. Deafened, wounded, and surrounded by walls, he crouches behind Rush’s chair waiting for Pharaoh while fear and imminent death close in.
Amid Civil War era Covenanters psalms, Montrose’s chaplain Wishart chose Psalm 119 as his scaffold song. As the hymn began, a pardon unexpectedly arrived before two thirds of the psalm were sung, altering the doomed fate.
Detroit man Albert Mackey once kept a giant frog named Frenchy that he taught to troll for bass in Grass Lake Michigan. The frog drew muskellunge and a doomed chase ended when the muskellunge swallowed Frenchy during a foraging run. Mackey never ate persimmon again.
Frank Morgan recalls Grandpap Morgan, a frontier publisher, and a perilous crossing of the Cimarron where emigrants beneath a war party delay with a printing press and a line of poetry. The blocking fire and quick print readiness save the caravan and his poetic chapter.
A Western tale describes the high behind a fabulous beast with a posthole digger like tail. It balances on its hind legs and spins in circles, while tender feet fetch condensed milk cans to tempt it. After three drinks the beast calms, keeping the camp safe at night.
The Franklin Institute backed the promotion of mechanics arts. founded in 1824 in Philadelphia, it was the United States first school of its kind.
Gene Markey wrote By the Dawn's Early Light for Joan Bennett and RKO bought it for her, with Fred Stone as a star. Joan returns from England to start the project. Myrna Loy and Arthur Horn discuss marriage amid gossipy rumors, Buster Crabbe now known as Larry Crabbe in The Arizona Raiders, and Warner Brothers tests child talent on radio broadcasts. Irene Dunne enjoys New York social rounds. Stokowski considered for a movie appearance. Edward G. Robinson in Bullets or Ballets. Robert Taylor hides his real name Spangler Arlington Brugh. Merle Oberon and David Niven seek marriage blocked by contracts. Kay Francis delays vacation for Mistress of Fashion. W C Fields improving. Haile Selassie linked to Hollywood project. Australia censors trim The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
Pattern 5547 offers a cross stitch transfer depicting seven Mammy figures for each day of the week with a bandana and apron. Includes instructions, stitch diagrams, and material needs. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept New York for the pattern.
A reader letter extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for clearing facial blemishes that caused redness swelling and sleepless nights. The writer claims two cakes of soap and one tin ointment restored her skin and notes the products combat pimples rashes ringworm eczema and other external blemishes. Adv and pricing follow.
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