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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1939
Page
7
A boy named Johnny defers his homework to hear a news bulletin. He explains he must learn the latest events to draw a map of Europe, leaving his father puzzled by the timing of his study.
A veteran actor and producer retires and his son inherits honors. An old family friend praises the son as a chip off the old block, but a critic quips that he resembles a slice of the old ham, eliciting groans.
Dialogue captures Mrs Crabshaw pressing husband about unbearable conduct and his anxious inquiry about when peace might return. The exchange hints at escalating tension and a hopeful but vague timetable.
A bride explores her mother’s attic finding junk to repurpose. A dresser becomes a chest of drawers with varnish remover, a mirror is added to a gold frame, and a fish bowl with pink branches adds color. Next week reveals the stool and mirror fate amid sewing book promotions from Ruth Wyeth Spears.
The 26 000 year clock by Lodewyk Zim mer of Lierre features 98 dials showing world time, celestial movements, tides at major ports, and earth sun moon positions. The fastest hand turns 100 times per second while the slowest completes a cycle in 26 000 years. It has been on exhibition in New York.
Learning without thought is labor lost and thought without learning is perilous a Confucius quote presented as a brief aphorism.
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