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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1913
Page
7
A description of aeroblage, a four wheeled land craft with a sail and automobile steering, imported from France and England and set to be tried in the United States. It moves around a track in windy Wytime, requiring skill to avoid upset and promising popularity akin to ice yachting.
New York dealers foresee a retail rise of about 10 cents a ton due to Pennsylvania’s new tax on anthracite. Officials project $3 to $4 million for the state treasury but economists warn consumers will bear the tax. The levy at mines could add roughly 5 cents per ton for small coal and 8 to 10 cents for larger domestic sizes.
Mrs. John N. Booth of the Daughters of the American Revolution drove the first stake marking the old Missouri trail from St. Louis to Kansas City. The trail led pioneers overland to Independence where they joined caravans to Oregon and the Santa Fe trails. Stakes will be replaced with concrete markers in October across St Louis and surrounding sites.
Ten tons of playing cards, about 100,000 decks, were aboard the Japanese steamer Tamba Maru en route to Macao China. The cards were destined for the gambling hub near Hongkong, a port forty miles from the Pearl River delta, described as the Monte Carlo of the tropics.
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