Twenty Five Years Ago September 9 1920 Local notes Rochester
Mrs F P Anderson seeks medical care in Rochester Minnesota. Sam McConnel and wife relocate to Peterson house after Hartmans depart. Auto crashes rise with paved Polk streets as D N Mills and Lawrence Sundberg collide near F O Johnson corner and again near Progress residence. Irvin Fossburg and Claude Colby collide in a Ford causing damage. Mrs Colby injured but no lives lost. Citizens State Bank staff move to their new brick building to serve customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. P. Anderson
Rochester
Minn
Sam McConnel
Peterson
Henry Hartman
Polk
D N Mills
Lawrence Sundberg
F O Johnson
Progress
Irvin Fossburg
Claude Colby
Pretty wedding unites Miss Eleanora Joseph and Martin D Marohn
A Tuesday ceremony at Emanuel Lutheran Church united Miss Eleanora Joseph and Martin D. Marohn of Schuyler with Rev. Wm Butzke officiating. Earl Cole, recently discharged from Lincoln Orthopedic Hospital, returned to Polk to resume school duties.
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Eleanora Joseph
Martin D. Marohn
Schuyler
Emanuel Lutheran Church
Wm Butzke
Earl Cole
Lincoln
Polk
Polk County News Highlights From 1923 1930 and 1935
A Polk County recap notes births and marriages in 1923 including a Blase baby and a marriage of Maxine Eastman and Col. Wm Harry. It also lists farm prices and local art exhibits with premiums. Fifteen years earlier two weddings and school enrollments are reported alongside a motor company move. Ten years ago the local pastor Hedblom resigned and planned a move to Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Blase
Ronzo Steele
Lincoln
Teo Larson
Polk County Fair
Rozella Brauer
Polk
Maxine Eastman
Col
Wm. Harry
Grand Island
Margaret A Peterson
C. A. Peterson
Forrest F. Berggren
W. Berggren
Stromsburg
Rev True
Central City
Victor Blase
Lutheran Hospital
York
Polk High School
E A Sodergren
Progress
R H Thesing
Main Street
Sodvergren Motor Company
Carl Lind
Evangeline
L. P Jones
Jonannus Erickson
Little Brown
Nashua
Town
Kent
Rev . L. Hedbloom
Baptist
Englewood
Colorado
Small son wins second in State Fair Baby Contest rural division
Dale Fredrickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Fredrickson, earned second place in the rural division of the State Fair Baby Contest in Lincoln. Mrs. Hoerth remains gravely ill after hospital treatment in York. Adolph Kroger and Walter Stach plan a new livestock commission barn in Schuyler. Chas Stettner and Wm Garling do improvements at the H G Brauer home. Cora Lindburg sold Leonard Ave residence to Carl Dose, a Polk County property likely to be a fine family home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Fredrickson
Ansel Fredrickson
Lincoln
Helen Sherwood
Wren Sherwood
John Meisner
York
Miss . Sherwood
August Swanson
Adolph Kroger
Walter Stach
Livestock Commission
Cepeda McFadden Marriage Listed in Osceola Area
The wedding of Technical Sergeant Frederick W. McFadden and Carmen Leonor Cepeda occurred at the home of Chief Petty Officer Francis Klein in Miami on September 1 1945 with a civil ceremony. A religious ceremony followed September 8 in York at the Methodist Church. McFadden has served abroad in Corsica Italy Panama Salinas and Ecuador and enlisted in 1939. The bride taught in Guayaquil and has been associated with the American School there. They plan to return to Miami and Tampa after a brief Osceola visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. T Savery
United Brothern Church of York
F W. Schumann
D W McFadden
Richard E. Swearingen
Tech
McFadden
Corsica
Italy
Panama
Salinas
Ecuador
Army
Osceola High School
Institute For Teachers
Guayaquil
Flor
American School of
Natural Drugs Sparked Chemists Study Of Their Active Ingredients
The text traces the chemists pursuit of natural drug potency from the South American leaf that reduced hunger and increased endurance to isolating cocaine in 1860 and its use as a local anesthetic by 1879. It notes structure features like a carboxyl and methyl amino group leading to simpler compounds, Einhorn’s 1905 novocaine synthesis, and ongoing variants. It also mentions veronal and luminal as early hypnotics still valued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Einhorn
Novocaine
Sound Planning For A Productive Garden
Sound planning is the first step to efficient garden work. Draft a proportional plan noting crop types and quantities, locations, spacing, varieties, planting dates, and succession crops. Arrange rows north to south, place tall crops to avoid shading, and keep perennials to the side for easy seasonal prep. Plan diverse vegetables for balanced meals and winter canning.
The Lens and Its Vast Reach Across Life
Dr. J Edward Tufft editor of Optical World praises the lens as a fundamental tool extending vision from the infinitely large to the infinitesimally small. He notes its role in revealing solar system order, cellular life, disease germs, aviation guidance, and military targeting, likening it to the lever and wheel in its immense benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Edward Tufft
Optical World
Tufft
Forest Timber Resources in the United States
A historical analysis notes 630 million forest acres in the United States of which 168 million are unsuitable for timber, 77 million largely unproductive due to cutting and fire, and most others already harvested. It compares 1909 to 1938 declines, war-driven logging, and annual growth of 11 billion cubic feet with 17 billion cut in 1943, highlighting ongoing timber abundance yet heavy drains on sawtimber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Sawtimber
Aerial Gunnery Training Bucks Shotshell Use
The army air forces report that during gunnery training students fire about 750 shotshells to learn shooting and skeet. An aerial gunner fires 10 training shots for every combat shot, with weekly RAF use averaging 2,100,000 shotshells and consuming 147,000 pounds of lead and 22,500 pounds of smokeless powder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces
RAF
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Howard W. Herbes Reiter
Polt, Nebraska
Congress
Polk Territory
Reel
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Wilmer Rodine
Polk, Nebraska
America
Edwin
Clarks, Nebr
Omaha World-Herald
Lincoln State Journal
Lincoln Star
Wes Specials
Ee Rubbers di Atlas
van Camp’s
Jackson
Zoe
Stromberg
Oden Rooms
Manet Oderate
Wane
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co
Nebraska
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