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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
3
A chaotic collage of OCR like snippets includes a transparent object example, jokes about jurors and opinions, eye care ads, a petty crime punchline about a fly killer, and a patent medicine pitch for NR tablets. It also features a father and suitor rehearsal about marriage and a chip in together quip from Pick-Me-Up.
Readers are urged to examine Castoria bottles for the original signature and warning. A humorous exchange about frankness is quoted from Puck and Booth Tarkington, followed by a witty boat of a child misnaming colors in a bridge drive anecdote.
The Nebraska State Board of Assessment raised railroad property value by 1 161 392, unchanged elsewhere. Union Pacific branches share the increase while total railroad value reaches 273 893 217. Governor absent, meeting adjourned with unanimous vote. Burlington line added lincoln to Denton at 25 000 per mile, boosting total value.
Executive committee members met at the Lincoln hotel and expressed that the next convention will be held in Omaha, with this year's gathering planned for Lincoln.
American Express filed with state railway commissions to apply the Sibley rate to shipments between Nebraska points routed via Julesburg. Pacific Express, formerly Union Pacific Express, refused the reduced rate claiming through Julesburg, Colorado, shipments are interstate. This contention deprived far western Nebraskans of act benefits.
A citywide order opens Lincoln bars May 9 with delivery of beer to any home for those holding price. A large Blaine County petition supports James R. Dean as Democratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth District.
The census is a confidential operation with a $1,000 fine or up to five years in prison for divulging information. Enumerators face strict rules and must not guess final figures. Officials expect official reports from Washington by July.
April state treasurer report shows cash on hand 628 403 43 after month end. Receipts totaled 169 819 77 while disbursements reached 226 305 62. Permanent funds total 8 578 684 08 with allocations for school and university endowments and a normal endowment. Grigware the Train Robber is rumored in Lincoln, while escaped fugitive Axel Johnson is captured in Twin Falls and to be tried in Lincoln. Omaha debaters lose to Lincoln in high school contest over unions’ benefits.
The committee of fifty reports receipts of 3158.63 and expenditures of 3142.89 for the dry campaign. A mandamus to oust or install in Dakota County was granted to compel Mary V. Quinn to deliver the office to Wilfred E. Voss, citing Voss's expired first grade certificate at election and subsequent exam in Thurston County on October 16.
The park board will submit a 50000 dollar proposition for park purposes and the school board will locate the high school on the Davenport eight acre tract, after months of wrangling. Some objected the site was too low, delaying the decision.
Smithsonian representatives recount Colonel Roosevelts expedition used roasted hippopotamus fat as payment to 20 Swahili porters. Major Mearns notes nightly hippo skinning, taxidermy work, and Roosevelt’s economical approach. Mearns also boasts over 2,000 miles of walking and minimal fever during duty.
Rochester Democrat James S. Havens, already elected to Congress from the Thirty second district, is mentioned as a potential governor. A prominent lawyer and old line Democrat, he partnered with the late James Perkins for five years and supported Grover Cleveland in campaigns. He would not back Bryan or Hearst for president or governor.
A reader scrap cites old cures for bruises and felons, noting raw beefsteak and bacon remedies were once advised. The snippet mocks wasteful treatments while a Oklahoma City woman praises electric electropodes that cured her rheumatism and helped her sleep, with a promotional offer from Western Electropode Co.
A fragmentary dialog has Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup referenced as a teething remedy. The text pokes at a prospective tenant who brags about being good, then hints at distrust and a humorous remark about disguising suspicion with spices.
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