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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
4
Notice states it was entered as second class matter on March 21 1907 at the Polk Nebraska post office under the act of Congress of March 3 1875.
Local rates listed per line for display inserts including wedding presents and society notices. Obituary poetry and card of thanks offered at half regular rates. notices of entertainment with money involved priced per line. Copy for all display ads must be handed in by Tuesday noon for publication and run until further order.
A. C. Hammond reports the Gran province tribes in Formosa offer to submit to the government under conditions. They must surrender skulls kept from defeated tribes and hand over arms. While some accept the skull condition, many resist and government troops reinforce guard lines around Aiyu.
A travel across nerves shows fatigue in smell and heat nerves while hearing sight and heart nerves prove tireless. A Sankey anecdote about sacred music boxes reveals a shopkeeper calling Moody and Sankey hymns half way sacred as a profitable European fad. A Frenchman bequeaths fortune for masses for joy rider victims noting their deadly sin of causing harm.
The remark attributed to Edwin Markham about laughing and reaching for the stars draws attention as readers note a claimed price tag of ten million dollars. Circulation of the quotation prompts discussion on value and aspiration.
Germany maintains pressure on England causing a cautious mood among Britons who question if their country remains the world’s leading power amid ongoing tensions and doubts.
A Boston professor announces a balloon voyage over the Atlantic aiming for a high altitude crossing. He secures supplies including a sandwich and life-preserving accessories for the perilous journey.
Col J H Thomson outlines numerous ways enlisted men, including Philippine soldiers, can earn side income. Opportunities include tailoring, barbering, music, laundry ventures, tutoring, and loaning canteen checks. Alaska and overseas service add pay boosts and retirement credits.
Grace church plans a small garden at the corner of Tenth and Broadway to provide a resting green space for the public. The rector wardens and vestry view the project as an imaginative, community blessing that offers shrubs flowers and the smell of earth amid Broadway’s bustle.
Elinor Glyn describes American interiors as excessively luxurious and impersonal. She notes immense bedrooms with rococo furnishings, superb bathrooms, and velvet draperies lacking homey warmth. The piece satirizes social climbing and Duveen influenced taste in early 20th century America.
A fragment discusses Dutch painters valuing honest seeing and honest doing with realism and skilled brushwork. It notes their focus on life they knew best and their straightforward, sincere representation of subjects. The latter sentence oddly references an Oregon man and a murder as unrelated inhibition.
The piece surveys a mixed bag of topics from holiday timing and airship doom to a Pittsburg painter’s examination by alienists, marital estrangements, and remarks on Cuba annexation. It mentions a Michigan woman’s suicide after her husband’s departure, social attitudes toward critics and painters, and a nostalgic line about childhood remedies.
Sergt Sharp of Germantown visits Tioga county and notes farmers adopting autos. He recalls past horse barns giving way to garages, and locals discussing new motor cars with a lighthearted, old-fashioned tone.
The article notes many U S women lawyers earn comfortable incomes outside traditional practice. They work analyzing and classifying court decisions from the past decade, with law publishers offering high salaries. Corporate offices also increasingly hire women to prepare briefs.
A man with the bulging brow laments Squigley’s collapse on wheat while noting his generous low profile. The bulbous-nosed man adds that Squigley’s large buy-in precipitated the financial downfall.
A pun contrasts paternal shingle and sun burn cure with Pupny noting one tans the hide while the other hides the tan.
Patrons of the Polk Pro-Good and the Hin e Hammono Land Us are notified that the “Progress” will be under the management of A C Hammond. He has traced the half interest of J E Dil and the Real Estate business will be conducted exclusively by Mr Hull nisdate on Hil Hammond.
Classified notice promotes Steven's Livery for team or single driver hire and automobile rides. Sundberg harnesses offered with emphasis on first class quality and guaranteed straps.
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