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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1909
Page
7
Columbus Ohio reports that the five key ingredients of Peruna, a leading household remedy, have been disclosed to the public. The list includes golden seal cedron seed cubebs stone root and the tonic is promoted for catarrh nerves and mucous membranes.
A citizen voices relief in Billville recalling a creditor freed, sheriff turned brother-in-law sparing crop levies, a town doctor gifting guidance, and the head undertaker offering to arrange a final peace. The speaker credits multiple blessings and vows to hold on despite hardship.
A fairy offers to make a woman young with a wave of a wand but she declines unless youth arrives at her current age. Miss LillMan Russell, at a New York dinner, quips that aging shows when a woman starts getting out of a motor car backwards.
A historical advertisement from a New York Children's Home promoting Mother Gray's Sweet Powder for children. It claims to cure Summer Complaint feverishness headache stomach troubles and worm destruction, offered at 25 cents with sample by mail from Allen Olmsted Le Roy New York. Also a brief note about a book title inquiry mentioning Penryn's coming novel A Scrap Book with a married life angle.
The ad text touts Perry Davis Painkiller as a universal remedy for rheumatism stiffness and neuralgia with bottle sizes 2c 5c and 50c. It also contrasts Lewin's Single Binder cigars with 10c brands and promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for stomach liver and bowels. It ends with a quip about procrastination.
Delegates at the twenty ninth AFL convention in Toronto indicate plans to carry the Buck Stove case and contempt proceedings to the U S Supreme Court. They back President Samuel Gompers Vice President John Mitchell and Frank Morrison and note the federation's treasury at 165303 dollars as gains are reported.
The Harmony club organized by Edward H. Fallows aims to harmonize individuals and society through happiness. It plans to publish, run schools, camps, hotels, shops, and health facilities while selling a club manual for 25 cents a year, with headquarters at 30 Church Street under Helen M. Folger.
New York ministers from the Reformed Church visit the Martha Washington hotel after invitations promising smoking in the house. A women’s policy blocks men above the first floor, prompting blushes and a quick retreat from strolls through the hotel.
London reports the new dreadnought Lion and her sister ship have contracts let and will boast a formidable tonnage of 20 360 tons and top speed of 28 knots.
A violent clash between police and a crowd in Lima Peru at the Bulli Ring left several people dead and many injured as authorities attempted to disperse the gathering on Monday.
The Wyoming Wool Growers Association executive committee met in Cheyenne and approved officers work in prosecuting Ten Steen raiders who killed Allemand Emge and Lazier. They planned greater assistance and possibly more detectives to collect evidence against raiders across the state for crimes years old.
A bulldog named Sport and an Angora cat fought from three roofs to the Mutual Alliance bank building in Harlem. Spectators watched as Sport attacked the cat, the cat countered, and both animals died after tumbling to the sidewalk. John Pearl owned Sport. Policeman Marron led witnesses.
A whimsical tale recalls how a cat brigade released on the New York market floor drives mice from the produce exchange. Traders recount piles of grain and cheese spilled, cats prowling, and mice relocating or facing a resigned end to their daily foraging.
The article explains block signaling on railways, where lines are divided into blocks controlled by electric signals. It covers double and single track systems, distant and home signals, and how signals prevent collisions, with night lights and interlocking at grade crossings. It notes about 11,000 miles use the system, mainly Northwestern, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific lines.
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