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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1940
Page
3
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A 40 volume Chinese dictionary project plans to define each word in all compound forms and usage types. It notes the word yi has 11 000 listings and relies on a four volume index for reference. The piece also mentions natural colored items like diamonds gold honey icebergs ivory jade and more.
Dr Barton explains hunger drives irritability and fatigue and that meals should be divided into five to prevent crankiness. Citing The Five Meal Plan by Haggard and Greenberg, he notes more work from workers when food is spread across five meals rather than three.
The piece recalls on location work in the San Bernardino mountains where four year old Varita Campbell, though limited by state law to eight a.m., earned two extra hours of sleep for her six week shoot on Shepherd of the Hills. It also covers Deanna Durbin's Spring Parade and stories of actors before fame, including Nelson Eddy and Robert Taylor, plus Grover Jones adopting a child and the value of Crosley ratings and broadcast tickets.
Reprint from wartime newspaper features a dialogue among Mussolini, Hitler's envoy, and Von Ribbentrop, railing at Britain and France while boasting of destiny and power. The piece mixes jingoistic rhetoric with quips about Spain, Gibraltar, and 50 50 outcomes, followed by a satirical panel on new war weapons and a bow to changing maps in New York schools.
Chicago physician dentist Dr Earl H. Thomas warns that the dentist’s primary objective should be patient mouth health since abscessed teeth can quietly lower overall resistance and trigger rheumatism heart disease high blood pressure kidney inflammation ulcers and early death in some cases.
Duodenal ulcers are more common than stomach ulcers. Stomach ulcers are more likely to become cancerous than duodenal ulcers. Gas in the stomach cannot cause heart disease but can press against the chest floor and crowd the heart.
The new curtains create a lavish effect with a dash of glamour. A diagonal dart adds fullness to the front, while tie backs and valance use rose and plum chintz. Instructions for a lamp shade and spool table are noted with book references for sewing projects.
1. Senate members total 100. 2. Georgia in the United States has a region called Georgia. 3. White elephants are not sacred in India today. 4. Monkeys do hunt insects while foraging. 5. British House of Commons has 650 members. 6. In a bear market stocks generally fall. 7. An elegy is a mournful poem or hymn of lament. 8. Ring out old shapes of foul disease is from Alfred Lord Tennyson. 9. The body of water between Haiti and Cuba is the Windward Passage. 10. Andrew Johnson was married to Julia Dent.
The ninety sixth member is Mrs Hattie Caraway of Arkansas.
The dialogue covers whether individuals automatically become royal property upon birth in Russia, with speculative reasoning about status and authority. It references search for a salty substance exuding from skin pores and mentions various posed items including a mournful poem and a Windward passage.
Collier's notes that animals in film receive fan mail and trophies including Charmaine the donkey from The Fighting Sixty-Ninth and Skippy the dog known for The Thin Man role. The piece highlights celebrity animal laurels and autograph requests alongside Oscars.
The saying notes a compensation between fortunes and misfortune through the force of good will and the inherent equality of moral balance. It suggests that benevolence can offset negative outcomes across life.
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