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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
8
The letter notes visits among local families including Arborville, Marquette and Blair households. It mentions Rev Waits preaching his first sermon, several travels to Marion, Benedict, Silver Creek and Omaha, and plans for a new store room. It reports Joe Cockle moving into a modern wigwam dwelling and a county judge Arthur G Wray marrying, with community good wishes.
Stromsburg and Osceola residents returned from travels in South Dakota and Missouri with plans to invest in Dakota land. Various families visited relatives in Holdrege Keith Exelsior Springs and Gresham while others moved or planned property improvements. Local names include Hedblooms Nelsons Johnsons Ericksons Lindblooms James Zentz Currens and Vanhoosens with visits to Osceola Geneva Hackberry and York areas.
A young man complains of poor soft boiled eggs in Havana for months. He details a trick used by a restaurant waiter to substitute fresh Cuban eggs with mud stains to deceive patrons, while showing how customers identify genuine eggs by their shells.
Osceola residents report Neva McCray replacing Nelson at the First National Bank. W E Newcomer’s new residence rises on recently bought lots of Joseph Locke. Visitors include Dr. and Mrs. Howard of Nevada Missouri and relatives of Mrs W H Myers. The Widow Perkins play drew crowds at the Auditorium. Hastings Bros plan to close Kinney implement stock business here.
A Vermont post office and a Canadian one share a single room on the international boundary. A letter between Beebe Plain Vermont and Beebe Plain Quebec travels 294 miles via multiple hubs including Newport White River Junction Lennoxville Stanstead Junction and the Grand Trunk before returning to the same building. The route crosses both countries and illustrates the long journey a local letter undertakes.
The Duchess of Bedford notes remarkable lifespans among her birds. A Barbary dove has lived 15 years in her care after a previous 15 years with an elderly owner. A Chinese goose has been with the family for 57 years. A pin-tailed drake bought 20 years ago remains alive. One bird was taken from a nest in 1852 and died in 1900 after 48 years chained in a small hutch.
Westminster Gazette cites Horace Walgale predicting in 1784 that after Blanchard's balloon ascent seaports would become dockyards for aerial weapons and roads would break up for tillage increasing land. The prophecy paired satire with a serious forecast later seen as fulfilled, labeling the speaker a madman, not a humorist.
Maryville correspondence of the San Francisco Call reports Thomas McDonald a mining man camping along the Salmon range in Trinity killed a legendary 1,000 pound grizzly after a lively tussle. The bear had haunted farmers miners and residents for years and was described as the finest specimen seen in the Trinity mountains.
The defendant, St Kaiser of Boston, told Judge Grover in the Dea pain court he traveled 10 363 miles by car since May 10 without being held up or arrested for overspeeding. He was found not guilty on the overspeeding charge after government’s doubt.
In the Defiance area and near Fort Wayne, old timers recount man made deformities in trees that functioned as Indian guide posts. The saplings were bent to mark paths in the Maumee alley when woods covered the region, growing slowly and remaining smaller yet presumed very old.
A Seattle man attending a moving picture show watched a reel titled San Francisco at Fleet Time and saw his wife with another man, though she was supposed to be visiting Spokane. Salt for divorce followed. The piece notes people must be prepared for death and snapshots alike.
A fragment from a column presents a riddle about halves and equality. The dialogue questions why a woman who avoids half her age would still choose crowding first and hints at social commentary in a playful, period voice.
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