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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
3
Apples add crispness to salads. Use potato water for stock gravy and bread dough. Wrap cheese in muslin with vinegar water and store cool in a paper bag. Wilted greens refreshed by vinegar water soak. A cracked egg boils with vinegar in water or salt rubbed on crack. A greased paper on cake during baking keeps the top from burning.
Village gossip notes Katie Hepburn expecting a marriage proposal from Garson Kamin famed for directing The Great Man Votes and A Man to Remember. Kamin reportedly travels east to seek kinfolk consent as Willkie campaign chatter and New York figures mingle with nightlife chatter.
Virginia Vale reports CSALIND RUSSELL is signed to star in Columbia’s This Thing Called Love, a six months’ trial marriage comedy with Melvyn Douglas as a mining engineer. The piece notes Russell’s prior Columbia triumphs and mentions other industry tidbits including Betty Brewer’s singing, radio production quirks, and DeMille’s Manhattan Melodrama microphone fix.
Doris Davenport receives Hollywood Studio Club’s Most Inspirational Extra of the Year for her rise from extra ranks to the feminine lead in The Westerner. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. vacations at his Virginia farm. Susanna Foster halts Nebraska trip after her dog Rex is hit by a car. she stays home to nurse the pet.
A man under promotion stress develops blue mood symptoms due to tense mind affecting the stomach liver and gall bladder. Doctors find delayed gall bladder emptying and poor liver detox. A regimen of gentle bending exercises multiple small meals and weekly enemas restores liver function and eases fear of duty.
An article explains that arthritis follows exposure to cold or injury not as a direct cause but as a trigger for an existing infection in the body. It notes infections may have persisted for years and recommends locating and removing infection, plus rest heat and diet adjustments to protect joints.
A head cold can block the eustachian tube, affecting air flow to the middle ear. Whitfield's ointment is not a proprietary medicine. it is a prescription from a British skin specialist.
The article describes a single girl's study nook in soft yellow and green tones using on hand items. A wall box becomes a hanging shelf, a repurposed chair becomes part of the desk, and an old table is repainted green. The piece notes many such homemaking articles by Mrs. Spears across five booklets.
A concise line or two capturing the idea that an image can convey meaning without words. The note imagines poetry visual rather than textual, implying silent interpretation and the value of imagery.
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