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Newspaper

Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Sep 08, 1938

Page

8

Live stock prices at South Omaha September 7 1988

Receipts of cattle at Omaha Tuesday totaled 4500 head with slow arrivals delaying trades. Prices held steady on cornfed and western cattle as cows and feeders remained in demand. stock cattle and feeding steers showed active movement with quotas. Hog prices rose with firm to higher tone, light weights 8.50 to 8.85, medium 8.00 to 8.50, heavies 6.75 to 7.75 for a strong market.

Union Stock Yards Omaha

Fat Lambs Hold Steady at Omaha Sheep Sale

Receipts of 3000 head in Omaha Tuesday show broad demand and steady prices for fat lambs from $7.50 to $8.00. Feeder lambs remain in good demand around $7.00 to $7.65, with aged sheep and other grades quoted in the sale notes. Government of the period reflects typical market activity for sheep and lambs.

Omaha Mahannwal LAMBS Rangers Lambs Rangers

Osceola News Highlights Local Visits and Events

Osceola residents and visiting families fill the week with travel to Columbus and Lincoln for weddings fairs and college plans. Joe Nuquist earns a university teaching post in South Dakota after Nebraska studies. The Jolly Cookers 4-H mark achievements. Osceola plays Staplehurst and previews a double header with Dawse's Bulldogs and Lone Tree.

C. Gail Perry Alma Colo D. W. Adair Santa Barbara California Perry Lee Ela Jerry Dobson Denver Dobson Ruby Shore Lester Shore Delmar MacFadden Mary Columbus George Moseman Lyons Homer Brigham Shelby C E Brigham Osceola McFadden Merle Timm Leon Ray Iowa Mr Timm Merle Peterson Omaha Peterson Lloyd Cole Frahm C. M. Humphrey Joe Nuquist A. F. Nuquist University of South Dakota Sioux Falls Joe Osceola High School University of Nebraska Fnt Jolly Cookers Mary McFadden Edgar Wisely Wisely Axel Fredrickson Dorothy Waldo Holm Wahoo Walter Luther College L. M. Shaw David City Marion Shaw Thomas H. Pratt Houston Texas Lincoln Ern Howland Herman Hendrickson John Bessmer George McCleary Michigan Portland Oregon Hendrickson Alice Richards Elsie Pierson Albert Pierson J. A. Oberg Einar Allan Stanton John Oberg

Medical Facts on Cancer and the Microscope Through History

Sponsored by the Polk County Medical Society this piece traces cancer from ancient references to its modern study with the microscope. It notes early accounts from 1550 BC, Greek naming, and the pivotal role of Galileo era lenses, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, and early Dutch contributors in revealing cancer’s cellular structure.

The Polk County Medical Society Galileo Whollanders Hang Zacharias Jennsen Aother Dutchman Anton van Leeuwenhoek British Royal Society Paris Academy of Sciences

Nations Are Strong As They Are Free

In several utterances advocates of totalitarianism claim strength through control. The text argues tyranny weakens a nation as people cede rights, and that courage and self reliance rooted in American heritage sustain liberty and self government against external threats and internal pressure.

Europe

Wiped Out by Indians in Ohio Settlement Era

The first English speaking settlement in Ohio at the mouth of Laramie creek on the Great Miami river in Shelby county was established in 1749 and destroyed by French and Indians three years later, marking a violent turn in early colonial frontier clashes.

Ohio Laramie Creek Great Miami River Shelby County

Egypts Lighthouses in Early History

The earliest lighthouses known to history were towers built by Libyans and Cushites in lower Egypt. Beacons were maintained in some by priests.

Egypt’s Lower Egypt

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