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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1919
Page
9
Kodak advertisement offers 5c per roll developing and 8c per print at CAMERA JACK in University Place Nebraska. Box 6084 provides address for service inquiries.
For sale a pure bred Shorthorn bull aged fifteen months at a farm forty miles north of Bradshaw. Contact J. A. Shambaugh Rt. 2 Bradshaw Neb. Phone 25-11. Also notes on local visits: Oscar Strand in Clay Center, Mrs Strand and son and Miss Ang went to Lincoln, 607 Einstrom of Rochester MN visited B. M. Burke home, York residents Harry White, Arnold Crow and Charley Hahn in town for business. Progress columns invite selling any livestock or equipment, and Dr. G C Peterson offers dentistry services with parlor north of Dr. Westfall.
Polk county commissioners designate the week of Nov 24 for Clean-Up Week and urge farmers to remove weeds and brush along roadways. They warn snow drifts could hinder travel this winter if sites are not cleared, affecting rural carriers and doctors.
A survey notes England has set up a department of scientific and industrial research with a 5 million dollar fund to aid the empire, while Canada Australia Japan and Italy establish or expand national research efforts. The piece adds reflections on human differences and frictions in daily life and reports local notes about residents and visitors in the area.
The piece notes England may bar enemy aliens for an indefinite period and South American nations might follow. It argues German emigrants carry dual allegiance and risk betraying their host countries. A German burglar arrested in Chicago claims burglary is easier in the U S, which could lure others to seek America.
The text argues that socialists are persecuted in Germany for not matching a strict red shade and suggests U S agitators might learn from Germany. It notes a Philadelphia scientist attributes American "peps" to nervous irritability and hints at inducing causes similar to those in a melting palm.
A fragment suggests wrist watches priced at 1500 dollars and a jewelers convention claims funds once spent on liquor now go to jewelry. It hints at a potential field for profitable political profiteering.
The text contrasts undefined profiteering with moral judgment of gouging and shortchanging, notes English dislike of monocled Americans, and criticizes Hohenzollerns’ wealth and high prices. It ends with a critique of political rhetoric and shortages born of copyist errors rather than reverence.
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