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Newspaper

Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Mar 31, 1910

Page

7

Doans Kidney Pills Cited By Tex Baptists For Cure

A message attributes recovery from back injury and urinary disorders to Doan s Kidney Pills. Rev Abram Weaver of Georgetown Texas, former Baptist Herald editor, shares a report from a Jackson Texas Baptist conference about kidney trouble and relief after using the product. Foster Milburn Co. sells Doan s in Buffalo New York for 50 cents a box.

Dean Abram ‘Weaver Georgetown Tex Baptist Herald Jackson Doan

Cure of Severe Child Eczema with Cuticura Ointment

A Chicago mother reports her five year old son endured a raging skin eruption unresponsive to three doctors and other treatments. After applying Cuticura Ointment several times the sores dried, skin peeled, and the child recovered fully twelve years later.

Robert Wattam Forty-eighth St Chicago Ill

Marriage as a game of chance and privilege

A quip recounts marriage as a game where the man leads at first but often trails after the wedding altar. Rules are confusing and fair play hinges on perceptions of robbery versus diplomacy. The joke notes wives gain privileges, unlike other outlaws, in life’s social game.

Absolute Necessity in a Light Domestic Exchange

A dialog opens with a wife urging a strict budget of absolute necessities and avoiding luxuries. The husband defends a late taxi cab ride as an absolute necessity, marking a humorous domestic debate over frugality and discretion.

Distemper Cure Promises Safe Treatment for Horses and Dogs

Spahn's Distemper Cure is advertised as a guaranteed remedy for all age groups of horses and dogs, claiming to prevent and cure distemper. Over 500,000 bottles sold last year with options at 50 cents or 1.00. Agents wanted and a free book offered. Spohn Med Co Goshen Ind. Also a humorous note about doctors and vanity.

Spahn Spohn. Med. Co Epec Goshen, Ind

Tempest Burns Letters as Lucy Aids His Poems

Basil Tempest, famed poet novelist, secludes at Craven England. Lucy Carew arrives to study him and his new poems. Tempest, angry at interruptions, dictates his manuscript to Lucy and asks her to stay. He confronts Lady Ormond and burns her picture and letters as their work continues.

Basil Tempest Craven Lucy Carew England Tempest Sue Lucy London Tuey Lady Ormond

Tempest Draws Lucy Carew Toward Hidden Longings

Lucy Carew weighs her freedom and folly as she fixates on Mr Tempest. He shifts from forbidding to charming, drawing her into a private reverie about his distant life and their imagined bond. She fears happiness yet trails him through a tense mental chase and a road toward an uncertain end.

Tempest Eue Craven Mr. Tempest Lucy Carew Miss Carew Anthony Penthuen Bromgham Motor Elizabeth Shire

Penthuen Castle Encounter Cast in a Sunset

Tempest and Miss Carew explore Penthuen Castle, a historic fortress, where their tense romance unfolds amid shifting glances. Basil Tempest confronts Letty Ormond’s advances and reveals a forbidden attachment as the sun sets over the castle courtyards.

The Hopping Prince and the Ambassador’s Lesson

Senator Tilman recalls an American host who entertained the shahzada in Afghanistan. The guest and his staff hopped across the carpet to rose positions, explaining green with pink roses is sacred, making the journey tiring but good exercise.

Tilman Washington Afghanistan Shahzada

New Uses of Cement In Europe and Germany

European engineers praise cement grouting for repairing defective masonry lining wells and making tunnel roofs watertight. In Germany a polluted well was restored by lowering a sheet iron drum, filling the space with Portland cement, then removing the drum after setting. Damaged tunnel masonry was repaired by injecting liquid cement under 78 psi pressure.

Germany

Parental Loyalty In Wedding Question Reveals Disposition

Brief exchange highlights a father's charge about his daughter’s virtue as the wedding plans unfold. A guest quotes the father noting the bride’s angelic disposition, while the groom responds with a witty retort.

Tickets Vanished on Express Car Dee Light Ruse

An elderly, well groomed first vice president searches an express train parlor car for his missing tickets. The conductor, knowing rules, lets it pass when the executive presents his business card, sparing a formal reprimand and preserving harmony aboard.

Ginger

The Wise Magazine Editor and the Proofreaders Joke

A humorous exchange reveals a magazine editor correcting a reader mishap with a pun about times. The caller complains a proofreader mangled the text and the editor quips about readers being left in the dark as they chase am and pm.

Pendleton King Tam

Mind Reading Objection Sparks Droll Exchange

A humorous exchange unfolds as a suitor objects to a partner’s plan for lessons in mind reading. He quips about the cost and method, and she counters with a sly test of his own mind reading abilities. The dialogue showcases wit and light domestic theater tone.

Inward Conviction Over Empty Plate in Harper’s Taste

Tommy sits with an empty plate after three helpings of sausages and doughnuts. Aunt Sarah asks if he will have more doughnuts. He declines, saying he does not want them he has now.

Tommy Sarah Harper’s Magazine

Constipation Ad Claims NR Tablets Cure Many Ailments

An advertisement urges readers to use NATURE'S REMEDY NR tablets for constipation and autotoxemia. It claims the remedy clears the entire digestive system and kidneys, cures dyspepsia and rheumatism, and promises relief by morning after a single dose. Available as a 25¢ box from All Druggists, A. H. Lewis Medicine Co., St. Louis.

All Druggista The A. H. Lewis Medicine Co St. Louis

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