Two Tractors Crush Local Man to Death in Farm Accident
Arthur Monson about 50 was killed Friday on a Swede Home area farm when he was crushed between two tractors while attempting to start one with the other. His brother Joe Monson and Mrs Joe Monson found him after hearing the machinery. The incident occurred near Swede Home and was reported in local notices.
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Arthur Monson
Joe
Arthur
Joe Monson
Sevila Webb
Central City
Gerald
Bob
Branting
Polk Progress Delivers Local News and Social Notes
Community items from Polk Nebraska cover obituaries engagements births and church events. Highlights include anniversaries at the Arborville Church renovations plans for a park walkway and Bean Days festival details plus residents traveling to Chicago and military assignments for local youths.
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Burdette Flodman
Citizens State Bank
Riverside
Golf
John
Scott
Was
Tunnér
Arborville
Lindley
Cook
Fred
Stanford Ang
Lanny
Chicago
Eustis
Stanford
Max.Sanderland
MG. ‘Lindburg
Walter.Fisher
St. Joseph’s. Hospital
Omaha
Prophesied Doomsayers and New York Horse Waste Odyssey
A reader essay contrasts centuries of doom prophecies with a 1820s New York horse era forecast. It recalls 1882 court cases predicting 1973 urban stress and waste, arguing modern threats echo past alarms yet resilience persists despite dire forecasts.
Shadows from the Big Woods and the techno future
Edward Abbey-Something offers a critique of modern industrialism and technocratic control. He argues memory is fractured by progress, the past betrayed, and origins murdered as society pursues a global village and robotic efficiency. The essay ends hinting at deeper ecological life beyond a mechanistic view. Continued on Page 3
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Edward Abbey
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