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Newspaper

Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Mar 23, 1939

Page

2

Europe Watches Tiny Ruthenia Amid German March

In a column by Joseph W. La Bine the piece traces Czechoslovakia’s collapse and the Munich pact’s impact on Ruthenia and Slovakia. It outlines German aims, British and French appeasement, and the looming threat to Ukraine and Soviet relations. The analysis cites Stalin, Kiev, and Moscow’s stance as global tensions rise.

Europe Ruthenia Joseph W. la Bine Czechoslovakia Adolf Hitler Berlin Vienna Pittsburgh Thomas G. Masaryk George Washington Austria Hungary Masaryk Slovakia Prague U. S Poland Rumania Czech Munich London Paris Sudetenland Britain France Carpatho-Ukraine Romania Bismarck Bohemia Germany Bohemia and Moravia Chamberlain Samuel Hoare Italy Mediterranean der Fuehrer Russia Hitler Ukraine Joseph Stalin Moscow Stalin Ukraines

Maglione Named Papal Secretary of State

Luigi Cardinal Maglione, aged 62, becomes the papal secretary of state following a career in the Vatican diplomatic service. A lifelong friend and former classmate of Eugenio Pacelli, he has served in Switzerland, Palestine, and France, earning a Legion of Honor and advancing to cardinal in 1935.

Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli Pius XII Italy Cardinal Maglione Vatican Switzerland Palestine Caesaria France Rome Congregation of the Council Papal

Harvester Hero in Canada Threshing Rig Narrow Escape

Howard C. Flanders of Rutland Vermont recounts a 1924 incident in western Canada where a threshing rig blade nearly claimed his life. While freeing a wheat bundle, he was dragged toward rapidly moving knives before leaping onto the wagon and escaping. A fellow worker's improvised action slowed the machine, saving him.

Ello Canada Howard C. Flanders Rutland Vermont New York Journal Howard Sherbrooke Quebec East Great Britain Harvesters Calgary Alberta Granger Carbon

Musk the famed scent from Himalayan musk deer

An authority in the Philadelphia Record describes musk as the strongest smelling perfume base derived from the musk deer of the Himalayas. The male deer, small with tusk-like teeth, carries a musk sack under its stomach from which the prized substance is dried and traded across Asia. Musk blends with other ingredients and remains perceptible for centuries, with historical notes including its use to scent the Tower of London during Mary I’s reign.

Congress Virginia Clifton Woodrum House Roosevelt U. S Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr Treasury Reconstruction Finance Corporation White House Himalayas Philadelphia Asia Mary of England Cecily Cholmondeley Tower of London Tower

Pattern crochet for baby carriage figures from Mother Goose

Filet crochet pattern 6071 offers a Bo Peep and lambs design for a baby carriage with a plain mesh background and ribbon beading. Includes instructions charts materials needed and illustration. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept 259 West 14th Street New York NY with name address and pattern number.

Sewing Household Arts Department West 14Th Street New York, N. Y

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