Oakland man builds and exhibits a steam engine
Wendell Turner of Oakland built a wood patterned steam engine modeled after an old Case. He finished it between November 1948 and March 1949 at about 400 to 500 dollars in material costs. Turner exhibited the engine at local carnivals and Mt. Pleasant Threshers reunions and also built a mobile home and vehicles.
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Wendell Turner
Oakland
Fece
Turner
Mt. Pleasant
Old Threshers
Germany
Circle
Alaska
John L. Thomas Keeps Farming Past Nineties in Kansas
John L. Thomas, 98, a lifelong Kansas farmer born in Wales who arrived in 1909, has worked farming for nearly 60 straight years. He tended a small herd of yearlings last winter, hauled cattle feed from Verdon, Nebraska, 17 miles away, and painted his farm home before spring planting.
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Kas
John L. Thomas
Verdon
Neb
Wales
Thomas
Kansas
Joliet Woman First Female Agricultural Journalism Major at SIU
Joan Shepiey of Joliet is allergic to hay and becomes the first woman at Southern Illinois University to major in agricultural journalism, marking a notable academic milestone.
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Carbondale, Tr
Joan Shepiey
Joliet
Southern Illinois University
Tractor used to battle blaze saves bedrooms
Gerald VanLast, his wife and three children were awakened by a fire that engulfed their ranch house in Effingham. He looped a logging chain around the burning section and pulled it away from the untouched wing, saving the bedrooms.
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Effingham, Sr
Gerald VanLast
VanLast
Ins Tructor
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Philco G Co
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Moise
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