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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1909
Page
4
Fragments show advertising rate terms for local notices wedding presents and entertainment notices. Mentions per line per insertion and display rates, church notices, and deadline language. The text references Polk area and generic notice timing but lacks clear events or names.
Reported by the lighthouse board to the Mariners Number 27 Fenwick Island Shoal lightship is to be moved inland to a peach orchard 49 miles from the coast. Mariners misread the lat long, prompting questions and a correction that the longitude should be 74 degrees west, not 75.
Professor Boni reports discovery of 12 small galleries near the north stair of Caesar where grooves and vertical poles suggest a system of movable platforms. He believes these rooms housed devices to raise gladiators and wild beasts for games, indicating elevators were used in the Republic era and not in Imperial buildings.
The piece reflects on the gum drop as a childhood delicacy once popular in past decades. It notes its slow consumption, position in old shop displays, and the way pennies and nickels framed the choices, praising the gumdrop as a simple American candy that aided discovery.
A Harper's Weekly piece by Marshall White recounts a boy eleven or twelve suffering a broken leg as Dr M. rips up trousers to apply a bandage. The chaos of pain and shrieks accompanies the emergency as attendants rush the patient toward care. The fragmentary text shows the boy protesting, crying for his new pants as the procedure unfolds.
A Parper’s Weekly writer notes that paper money did not originate with the Moguls or modern times. It traces early forms in Venice, China, Persia, and Mogul notes called djaw, linked to the Chinese shaio. The piece mentions 1739 suppression of paper money in China and earlier notes in 1264, plus 119 B C skin-based value tokens used in China with deer skin units valued at about 65 dollars.
A man in a nearby city bought a mongrel dog for his wife and child a year ago for a dollar. The dog’s loyalty saved the family when a fire broke out after they slept, waking the owners as the dog whined at the door. Despite offers, the penniless owner keeps the four footed savior.
Two German scientists tested whether hens have memory by guming 20 grains of rice to cardboard and placing ten grains of loose corn beside them. The hens soon ignored the rice that was glued down, showing memory. longer intervals between trials improved learning, with spaced trials reducing the number of attempts needed.
Senator Scott recalls a backwoods tale about a delegate who refuses to run for office. He plans to move to Charleston to lobby the lobster game for coin, humorously confusing lobster with lobbyist and implying the lure of money in politics.
A garbled excerpt describes Beeken Street and Worcester journey with broken dialogue. Mentions Dorr Chester and Cleveland with unclear place names and stray quotes. Tangled phrasing hints at an old reminiscence about noise and quiet in a city street, but details are obscured.
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