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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1919
Page
6
Advertises B A Thomas Hog Powder as essential from birth to marketing to keep hogs healthy and profitable. Claims the powder prevents cholera removes worms and cures thumps with a money back promise if it does not work. Sold for sale by A G Lindburg and W E Anderson.
Good stock and grain farm near Silver Creek Nebraska offers 720 acres with solid buildings and spring possession. Property well divided for ground and pasture, terms reasonable. Also notices about window screen replacement, bail insurance at the Bank of Polk, chick feed at A G Lindburg, farm trading via Polk Realty Co, and Lincoln Star eight months for 75 cents with Sunday edition.
Readers learn there is a cure for catarrh through constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is said to heal via the blood and mucous surfaces, building constitution, with a $100 reward for any failure to cure. Testimonials available by mail from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo. Sold by druggists.
Adam Breede recalls wartime England's food hardship as a steady diet of fish drove appetite to the limit. He and Kansas City Star correspondent C. P. Higgins sought meals in cafes, then crossed to France for variety, provided money held.
War correspondent Adam Breede recalls food shortages in England and Ireland, life with American and French troops, the cooties and scabies facing doughboys, and the menace of trench rats. He notes social etiquette differences among English Americans and French, plus wartime delousing measures and camp life.
Union Stock Yards South Omaha May 7 cattle offerings 5700 head price shifts slower on beef steers with some declines. Hogs mostly higher, bulk sales 20.49 to 20.63 with top loads 20.75. Sheep and lambs up about 25 to 35 cents, handy weight lambs at 20.00, heavy and clipped ewes varied to 16.00 and 12.75 respectively.
A humorous dialogue set at a club describes ladies' day attracting many crusty bachelors who linger nearby while drinks are served in the growlery.
General Rees arrives from Washington to supervise army education work. The Y M C A education commission drives rapid progress as textbooks arrive to meet soldiers demands. Past schools expand with ten new divisions each, and officers and men are being absorbed by French and British universities to capacity, per Prof John Jeakine of Columbia University.
Brig. Gen. J. P. O'Neil of the Ninetieth division lauds the Y M C A while noting a fool among employees who interacted with front line danger and Bowie shells. He says the work leaves a lasting impression on the division and urges continued effort.
A delayed cablegram to the YMCA national war work council offices reports the general commanding the American and Allied expedition in northern Russia recommended Howard B. Merrill of New York, a YMCA worker, for suitable recognition for his calm behavior during a surprise attack on the forces he served.
English universities prepare to welcome American officers and men assigned to collegiate special or post graduate courses under the army educational commission run by the United States Army and the American Y M C A.
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