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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1948
Page
2
A column blends sensational bits about Mse Koch the Nazi figure with Hollywood quips and brief gossip. It cites legal twists, Hoover’s health, and a jailed figure Vajta, ending with a tainted hush in Washington over a controversial Vajta warrant.
The article portrays President Truman as a solitary figure who keeps two anthologies of poems by his bedside and often rises at 5 a.m. He calculates his pay as president, notes a 1948 tax cut increasing his net income, and says he wishes to write the history of his own administration but is hampered by work. He quotes Shelley Keats and Alice in Wonderland and references Drew Pearson and the Alsop brothers.
A columnist skewers the American Association of Motor Vehicle Commissioners for lax enforcement and calls for stricter chemical tests to prove drunkenness. He mocks court hurdles and political influence while noting drivers in accidents, then blames auto makers for faulty designs and costly repairs.
Brooks Atkinson and Robert Coleman offer mixed opinions on Amsterdam noting personality and a mediocre ag handling. Henry Wallace blames North for a provocative action. The fragment signals tense debate and a looming confrontation around the figure.
A homemaker explains the family enjoys meat and vegetable dishes but craves varied desserts. She notes the challenge of keeping enough easy to make options on hand to satisfy the hunger patterns that emerge during meals.
A home chef guide offers simple yet impressive desserts to finish meals. It suggests light gelatin or fruit options when the main course is rich, plus a rich baked roll cake and a molded rice pudding with apricots and pineapple.
Joseph O Bry an Huntville Kansas breeder raises about 3000 hogs yearly and reports higher profits from a fall 1947 program of better sow care and feeding. The plan uses a detailed gestation and nursing ration, pre farrowing sanitation, clean pens, early creep feeding, and progressive diet shifts to produce stronger pigs, faster gains and lower mortality.
Practical kitchen instructions for cherry cream pudding and orange gelatin desserts mingle with agricultural advice on soil health. Recipes cover meringue, orange whip, and Spanish cream while expert R. C. Thomas explains how organic matter boosts beneficial soil bacteria and reduces disease-causing ones.
President Truman complains to aides that Senator Ferguson of Michigan has turned the former war investigating committee into a garbage company, saying he built the panel into one of the finest on the bill before Ferguson took over.
George Allen, ex White House jester and Republic Steel director, supposedly blocked the Cleveland blast furnace sale to Henry Kaiser by influencing backstage politics. Joe Jacobs named new U S ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Fred McLaughlin hired to survey border states. CIO factions forecast split forming an all-left-wing labor movement by 1948.
A field anecdote shows General Omar Bradley pitching in to help an enlisted sergeant move belongings to Bradley’s new quarters. Bradley made eight trips while the sergeant made seven, illustrating hands-on leadership. President Truman reportedly told intimates that if re-elected, Secretary of the Army Royal would not remain long in office.
Serve hot breads with sweetened spreads to add calories to slender meals. Ham broccoli and cheese baked in ramekins makes a tasty cold weather main dish. A cream sauce binds ingredients together. Adding chopped eggs to dressings for salads boosts daily protein intake.
Stinking smut remains a major wheat disease despite knowledge of control. Plant scientists urge resistant varieties and seed treatment with fungicide. Growers should avoid planting when soil temperatures favor soil-borne smut development.
Ad offers easy shuttle tatting edgings with one stitch. Create five edgings using step by step illustrations and precise directions. Send 20 cents plus name and address to receive pattern instructions.
A Hollywood makeup man claims mascara is the earliest manufactured beauty aid traced to Egypt around 4000 B C. Wall paintings in recently unearthed tombs show ancient Egyptian glamorists applying mascara heavily, suggesting modern comparison in style.
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