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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1936
Page
4
A collection of pithy lines on manners, honesty, patience, and human foibles. Surprising bits note blushing, friendships, and aging while mentioning monte of life truths and a nod to a gangster era motto.
A Tit Bits Magazine piece on how meals affect voice pitch notes Hollywood engineers tested film stars and found post meal voices vary greatly from pre meal speech. Some listeners heard two speakers when a single person spoke, and variation grows the longer since the last meal.
A 4000-year-old tomb in Asia Minor yielded a flittite bull statue seven inches high inlaid with gold. The silversmith's work appears strikingly modern, suggesting a cultured people rather than primitive. European archaeologists are excited as little was known of the Ilittites beyond rock carvings and pottery.
The passage explains futurity race rules where entrants precede birth and foals race as two-year-olds. It lists three major U S futurities Pimlico Westchester Breeders Futurity and notes a beekeeper in Whitton New South Wales branding bees with a numbered metal disc on the queen’s thorax to prove his claim.
A tongue in cheek remark from Stray Stories Magazine about Peggy described as small minded yet generous, sparking a humorous note on character and sharing. The quote contrasts pettiness with generosity in a compact social vignette.
Everett vows to leave school unless the principal retracts. He recalls the principal telling him to leave school and asserts Venezuela is the world’s second largest oil source. Everett names petroleum fields NE of Lake Maracaibo and near the Orinoco delta and San Juan river mouth.
Dialogue records a traveler anxious over a friend's welfare after a motor trip. One letter arrives from a police station and another from a hospital, signaling serious concerns about his condition.
Mrs Milo Ellison of Bradshaw visited sister Mrs Irvin Paben near Hardville on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs George Otte visited parents Mr and Mrs W J Newton at Goenner on Friday. Arthur Gustafson and family spent Friday with Sterling Nelson at Stromsburg.
Sealed bids will be received for sodium chloride to eradicate bindweed in Polk County. Deliver at designated points in Polk County. Bids due in the County Clerk's Office by September 15, 1936 at 2 00 o clock P M. (Seal) John I. Anderson County Clerk.
County announces weed cutting along road sides as required by statute. All weeds must be cut on or before September 1, 1950. Board of County Commissioners seal.
A collection of social happenings from the area lists Hazel Nelson visiting Lincoln for ten days, a Milred Menssen-Rhodes shower in Hampton, the Danielson Olson wedding in Stromsburg, and other gatherings. Lincoln visits, fairs, and family milestones are noted along with a baby girl born to Ansel Lindquist at St Elizabeth hospital Grand Island.
Mr and Mrs Wallas Anderson of Omaha and Mrs Milton Johnson and baby were dinner guests at the Arthur Adelson home one day.
A public notice from F. A. Hannis, York's optometrist, urges cautious upbringing and suggests poor vision makes a child disagreeable and irritable. It recommends having children’s eyes examined without delay to prevent unhappy associations and maintain well being.
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