This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1929
Page
8
New York Arg. Smith announces he will head a company to direct the largest building in the world, an 80 story skyscraper on the site of the Waldorf Astoria. The Empire State Building will rise nearly 1000 feet, about 200 feet taller than any Manhattan structure, to be completed in 18 months at an estimated cost of 60 million dollars, housing sixty thousand people at once.
Arborville residents recount visits by Richard Youngland and relatives from Chicago to G Youngland and then to Loup City. Stouffers attend Missouri Valley reunion and visit Shenandoah and Beaver Crossing area. Floyd Quick and G Lantz travel to Wyoming for flax harvest. Sophia Beed visits Bradshaw friends and Vanderburg in Iowa. Van Housen hosts several visitors.
Farmers in Nebraska lose over a million dollars yearly due to smut in seed wheat and reduced yields. Treating all seed with copper carbonate dust formaldehyde or mercuric chloride is inexpensive and effective. Extension Circular No. 132 from the University of Nebraska provides complete instructions. The report notes high smut rates in Omaha wheat shipments from 1925 to 1928 and urges a community-wide treatment effort to prevent losses.
W A Sheaffer of St Madison Iowa built fountain pens in a back room years ago. Today he employs about a thousand people and operates on several acres of land. He is a regular advertiser in the Saturday Evening Post and other high class publications signaling that advertising helps sell.
Weekend accidents including motor and drowning mishaps suggest a safer Sunday spent at home and attending church services.
Henry Mahnken attended the state fair with companions while C V Lind and family visited Lincoln and Osceo Polk area residents spent Sunday evening with friends Elmer Peterson and family shared Sunday dinner at Ear Wagoner’s Stromsburg home The Hastings writer Will Maupin seeks preserved copies of his Nebraska song and offers five dollars for the first. A Swedish colony in Saunders county features Lars Larson who settled, worked at Louisville quarries and left a cottonwood tree near his homestead now called grandfather's tree by Maupin.
Swede Plain M E Church announces Pastor John W. Ekwall leads Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship and Evening Service conducted in English. Choir rehearsals on Thursday nights at 8 o'clock.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.