Motor Truck Development Tour Drives to Farm Field
A touring exhibit demonstrates 13 factories' trucks and support gear on a nationwide farm demonstration, led by A. R. Kroh and W. Scott. The mission shows motor trucks as efficient farm power, with pneumatic tires, service tracks, and a full mobile setup for lighting and motion pictures.
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Lire
Willson
Wey
Navy
Pat-Ameriens Uolon Br
Rommercis
South America
Bach
Kroh
Vores
America
United States
Europe
United States Department of Agriculture
Knox sets out on the Great Adventure
Lieutenant Knox aids Pete in a midnight plan to rescue Rene Beaucaire and her mother Delia from Kentucky law and Kirby’s clutches. They prepare a river escape via a mule cart and a secret path toward Amos Shrunk, a known abolitionist, to guide the fugitives toward Canada and safety.
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Knox
Fort Armatrong
Rock Island
St. Louis
Warrior
Judge Beaucare
Joe Kirby
Devil's Own
Beaucaire
Eloise
Rene
Kirby
Joe Carver
Beavcake
Carver
Hie
Pete
Hia
Benaveatre
Haines
Rene Beaueaire
Missus
Rene Beaucotre
Delia
Adelbert Beaucaire
de Ol’ Jedge
North
Della
Tex
Throckmorton
Rene Beaucaire
Hloise
Finlly
Delta
Carter
Elvise Geaucaire
New Orleans
Ure
Jess
Ohio
Bissours
Lees
Tam
Massa Knox
Missouri
Beaucaires
St. Leys
Les
Missi Knox
New England
Amos
Canida
Imnois Prairies
Trinola
Donse
Beanentre
Deéy
Flyer Bank
Union of Women in Spain Aims for Equality and Education
The Union of the Women of Spain forms to advance education for Spanish women, secure civil and political rights, and address issues of inheritance and child custody. It organizes branches, distributes literature, and plans educational courses while promoting pro propaganda through meetings and campaigns. The piece also notes U S corn production and crop conditions in 1917 with data on yields and marketability.
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Union of the
Waewwn
Spain
Selety
Spiniah Wom
Union of the Women of
Cor
The Suffra mist brawl misheard in Chicago resort incident
A chaotic Chicago resort squabble leads to an eye injury as Trishian is struck by a tick. The magistrate questions intent, while a Celt questions the motive. The dialogue features quirky exchanges about time, money, and mistaken identities in a fractured narrative.
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Aly
Missouri
Masta Knox
Massa Knox
Pete
Trishian
Tris
War Cross Presented by French General to American Officers
General Andrien presented the war cross to American officers of the Occupation Army. Miss Ely of Bryn Mawr and Miss Van Norden of New York City received a kiss from the general, a customary gesture after decorations. Maj. Ger. B of the Eighteenth Infantry helped conduct the ceremony with other officers present in the Young Men's Christian Association setting.
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Andrien
Miss Ely
Mies van Norden
Ger. B
Eighteenth Infantry
McGinehiin
Eny
Andries
McGinehii
Worth a Place in Memory and Miscellany Fragments
A roundup of poems, curiosities, and brief essays on memory art and language. It includes snippets on wandering verse, a Nebraska Lone Tree legend, a quip about an Indian Vedanta tale, Confucius cemetery notes, and a brief Origin of the Handkerchief inquiry.
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India
Stanwood Cobb
Avas
Election Expenses From a Defeated Georgia County Candidate
A Newark Leader dispatch from Atlanta details the sworn election statement of a Georgia county commissioner candidate who lost. The claimant lists odd expenditures such as hours of thinking, facial changes, donations to a county barbecue, and various trinkets including beef, shirts, dresses, cash, and baby rattles, presented in a humorous if unclear recounting.
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Newark
Atlanta
Oiling Machines and Lightning Light Value
A fragment discusses regular oiling saving one third effort, noting women maintain machines. It mentions Cash Value of Bott and a Dure Dean scientist calculating electricity value in a lightning flash lasting one-thousandth of a second as two cents.
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National Motor Truck Development
Fampers
Tittnote
Fows
Oud Dako
Minnesota
Wisconsia de Vorled
Minter Epulpmeet
Wericulture
Lemar Wood
Tor
Chicago
Milwac
Has
MT Scott
Vererag
A. R. Krob
Downa
Arrern
Pilaty
Pormere
Department of Agricaltnee
Randall Parrish
Ee Caine
Ara
Clari
Earda
de Landin
Leutenant
Fort Armstrong
Beau-entre
Benuealre
Beaucaire Toto
Ruby
Kirby Egeed
Mani
Union of Women In
United States of Agriculture
Eig
Kentucky
Marquesa del Ter
Mr. Cumrog
Henpecke
Alescues
Plato
Emerson
Los Angeles Times
Nebraska
New York
San Francisco
Eldorado
Pacific Coast
California
Great Plains
Union Pacific Railway
Caliifornia
Atten
Confucius
Tientsin-Pukow
China
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