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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1948
Page
7
The questions refer to a long forgotten body of land, radar exploration, and historical curiosities. Answers touch on a vanished territory, Mayflower descendants, high forfeit scores in ball games, Lincoln’s birthplace trivia, and a bird’s body temperature.
The notes mention Atlantis as a legendary continent and cite about 61 million in relation to some figure. Baseball is referenced with a forfeited game scoring 9 to 0. Names listed include Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield, Arthur, and Harding. Temperature range stated is 104 to 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Agnes learns jelly making from grapes grown in a back arbor and repeatedly misjudges the boil test. Her efforts produce a sticky, glue like jelly that confounds her husband Greg but finally yields a surprising, celebratory batch called Great Grape Glues.
The clay tablet poem dated about 1750 B C describes a congress in Erech during Gilgamesh’s rule to decide war or peace. Dr Samuel Noah Kramer, expert in Assyriology, translates the six tablets and fragments from the University of Pennsylvania museum. Sumer lies in what is now southern Iraq.
Sewing Circle Patterns offers patterns 1787 and 1823 with multiple sizes and yardage for 39 inch fabric. Fall and Winter Fashion provides sewing tips and free pattern inside the book for 25 cents.
The article traces bicycle history from Joseph Niepce’s 1816 celeripede to the velocipede and boneshaker, through the 1870s and 1880s innovations by Lawson and Pope, pneumatic tires in 1889, and the 1890s tandem boom, noting global use now exceeds 60 million with 12 million in the United States.
The article contrasts the French Riviera from Marseilles past Cannes Nice Cap d Antibe and Juan Les Pins to Monte Carlo with the Italian Riviera which is described as much less expensive than its French neighbor.
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