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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1939
Page
4
The dialogue features a boy accusing his father of bigamy after learning his mother has remarried. A teacher named Willie defines heredity with an example that if a grandfather had no children then the father would have none and the boy would have none as well.
Ak-Sar-Ben Live Stock and Horse Show in Omaha unveils lower admission prices and fresh features for 1938 including Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan at every performance. The event runs October 22 to 28 with 4-H Baby Beef Show expansions, Midwest Band championships, a Flower and Garden Show, and Willie Weeker’s Doberman pinschers. Advance tickets drop prices by about one third. arena seats from 25 cents. autos free. rail rates cut for the week.
Archive notes recount Polk Nebraska history with Robert Rinehart family new pipe organ valued at $2000 plus baby girl born to Frank Rinehart. Excavations for Citizens State Bank Pure Food Grocery and Monson stores as well as bank building on south Main Street. Fred Johnson sells property to Sjoblom. A K Crow family travels to Loup City. Ed Schultz vacates home to George Mitchell.
The records note two marriages at the First Baptist parsonage as Abner I Myrberg's bride and Grace Lindberg with plans for brief honeymoons and future home in Polk. An October birth is recorded at Lutheran hospital in York. Probate notices announce hearings for Andrew Ang and Joseph A Binford estates with appointed administrators and dates in November 1939.
Several local churches list service times and events. Methodists announce district conference at Harvard on Tue, Oct 17. Swede Plain and Lutheran churches note morning worship and sacraments. First Baptist details Sunday School and services plus BYPU and prayer. Free Methodist and Evangelical Free Mission share sermon times, midweek prayer, and upcoming concerts and Bible study.
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