Auto Built in Iowa and Ford Rebate Fund Mailout
A long extract recounts early toylike auto innovation in Holstein Iowa by Mr Schnechloth a German craftsman and notes Ford Motor Company distributing checks totaling about 16 million dollars to 808 218 U S owners as part of a rebate program with plans to mail all checks by month end. It details signing methods and post office distribution with figures on brass copper wiring and the vast scale of the rebate and material costs.
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Iowa
United
Schnechloth
Turner
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Michigan
Ford Auto
Ford Company
United States
Highland Park State Bank
Ford
Poultry House
Ruthven Auto Accident Leads to Legal Action
A Ruthven man is charged with neglecting to stop after a Sunday crash on Dickens road near Olson farm. Mrs Brownell and a neighbor girl escaped injury when a buggy tipping horse sent them into a ditch. A driver from near Ruthven bonded in Spencer after the marshal and county attorney located him. The car driver must notify the nearest peace officer of accidents.
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N. R. Brownell
Dickens
Olson Farm
Ruthven
Spencer
Ideal Poultry House With Scratching Shed Design
William A. Radford discusses a combined poultry house featuring a scratching shed and a broad room, with a hatching and brooder layout. The article emphasizes cleanable interiors, removable furniture, disinfection, concrete foundations, vented openings, and practical room flow for poultry care and incubation.
Turning Smoke Into Steam At New York Central
The New York Central Railroad at Hazelwood Illinois installed a smoke consumer. Asbestos conduits carry smoke to a tank of hot water where it becomes steam. Residue resembles black lard and contains 80 percent carbon. Nine barrels are collected daily. potential use in paint manufacture suggested.
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New York Central Railroad
Haglewood
Ill
New Use for Cocoanut Oil Sparks Dairy Claims
A coconut oil based condensed milk is described as chemically indistinguishable from cow milk with a predicted market for a coconut cheese. The text notes coconut oil is valued by Mohammedans whose faith forbids pork products.
A Painful Memory
A fragmentary dialogue depicts a housewife and a trap working through a breakfast request and a crude reply about labor and offerings. The rough, dialectal exchange hints at a rural or historical setting and a brief, coarse humor.
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the Hawkeye
Erved
Schurmann
William A. Radford
William A. Hadford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Aly
Leading Railroad
Society Brand Clothes
Florsheim Shoes
Weber Shoes
Arrow
Monarch
Heid
Estherville
NAU Brothers
Alfred Skow
Prop
C.R. Shavhr
Graettinger Iowa
THE
Royal Lumber Company
OH. Green
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