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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1920
Page
5
Seven room house with new garage and out buildings plus two good lots on South Main Street. Call on or address A. W. Shafer for details.
Two pure bred bulls one red and one roan aged thirteen and fourteen months for sale. Contact J. A. Shambaugh Route 2 Bradshaw Nebraska phone 35 11. Miss Rae Merriman returns home from Lincoln to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs E H Merriman.
An advertisement pitches twenty acres of oil land in Wyoming with low prices and high fortune potential. It urges buyers to act on rigs already in operation and promises full information via AW Richards Box 704 Lincoln Nebraska, claiming Alliance Nebraska readers can profit from the experience. The notice asserts the claim as true and mocks false facts with a folk saying about white blackbirds.
County records list extensive expenses by department and board members for election booths and canvassing, with items from Polk County Farm Bureau to Orphans Home care and a long list of road, bridge, and public works disbursements. The annual village treasurer report shows balances and bond payments for Street, Water, Lighting funds and related accounts ending April 30 1920.
An eighty acre property offering 40 acres of farm land 32 acres of pasture and fair improvements is up for quick sale. Prospective buyers are urged to call 7812 for further information.
Parties order Rhode Island Reds for setting and better places as demand for eggs grows unexpectedly.
A Omaha World-Herald item notes defective mail service alone does not explain undelivered mail. several postcards lacked proper addresses or were misdirected. The column also promotes local ads, a closing sale, and a coal savings pitch while mentioning William J. Bryan’s travel to the San Francisco convention.
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