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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
7
Official forecasters say the sunspot parade, though impressive, does not reliably predict ordinary weather. The current sunspot maximum, recurring about every eleven years, is passing without settled outcomes.
Dr Charles F Marvin head of the weather bureau says no verified study proves sunspots affect weather. He notes terrestrial magnetic and auroral events align with sunspots while many weather conditions occur globally and earth sun rotation complicates any linkage. The 1749 onward sunspot record shows eleven year cycles with months of up to 250 spots and stretches with none.
A diamond heated intensely in a vacuum swells and becomes black charcoal while in air it vanishes as carbonic acid gas. This suggests diamonds form from carbon under extreme heat and pressure inside the earth.
A brief literary note lists a work titled Knowing His Ashes credited to Thomas Arkle Clark, reflecting a reference to the author and title in a compact catalog-like entry.
In a small town, Thompson hires an ashes man to cart away the winter accumulation of ashes during a routine basement cleanup. The wife assists by tidying the space above ground as the basement work unfolds.
Lorado Taft sculpted monument in White Hall Illinois honors Annie Louise Keller a schoolteacher who died protecting her students during the April 19 1927 central Illinois tornado. Keller perished shielding children as the school collapsed. all twenty two pupils survived.
Marysville Kansas men Everett Kraemer and Emil Peeks explored a limestone cavern seven miles south of town seeking legendary gold but found only fuel remains. The expedition revealed a long cave system with multiple chambers and a final reach over 50 feet underground. The piece also notes a remark about the 1911 Manchu dynasty era China with 400 million uneducated people.
Period fluctuations in sunspot patterns are proposed to correlate with Venus Mercury and Earth's movements. Other scientists consider meteors striking the sun as a possible cause for sunspot activity.
Captain Anderson and the Northwestern grid squad are rapidly rounding into shape and will be in fine trim to meet other teams soon.
A three brother Columbus police family rises from Old Pembrokeshire roots to the city’s first family police trio. Leo, John, and Otto Phillips hold patrolman, plainclothes vice, and detective roles with the Columbus department. Their father and uncle preceded them in security work across Canada and Britain. Leo once chased baseball dreams before choosing policing.
A Los Angeles mother praises California Fig Syrup for improving her son Leroy Young’s health after long constipation and biliousness. The ad claims the product has aided four million bottles yearly, is vegetable, and endorsed by leading physicians, with a note to seek the genuine “California” label.
Mrs Apa Bessz of Fairhaven Massachusetts praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for nervousness and fatigue during the change of life. She says it helps her sleep better and restores energy with adherence to directions. Her husband brings a bottle when she feels run down.
Dr. Caldwell gained fame in the 1880s for a syrup he developed to relieve constipation symptoms. By 1888 his Syrup Pepsin was mass produced and available at drugstores, helping people with coated tongue, bad breath, headaches, gas, and low energy.
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