Famous North Dakota Farm Tour Delights World Visitors
Foreign commissioners visiting the World’s Fair joined a tour of North Dakota bonanza farms led by H. Larimore. They witnessed Deering binders at work, heard praise for William Deering, and toured large wheat fields near Larimore, Alton, and Fargo before returning to Chicago.
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North Dakota
Larimore
Chicago
St. Paul
Minnesota
Great Northern Railroad
Larimere
H. Phillies
Shortridge
N. WU
William Deering
Deering Company
Alton
Dalrymple
Dalrymples
Fargo
Elk Valley
Carpet Tack in Soup Stuns St Louis Diner Patron
A man in a St Louis restaurant ordered soup and found a carpet tack baked into it. After attempts to chew and crush the object failed, he complained to the waiter who replied to discard the tack on the floor. The incident ends with the patron leaving the scene.
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St Louis
McGreogan Declares Debt and Suspender Style Clash
In a terse exchange a white customer pressures a colored laundress over owing money and her husband’s attire. He jokes that with initials McG he cannot bear a pink X on his shoulder, prompting the request the husband discard red suspenders.
Deering binder and mower show low draft in tests
Phillips and Mr. C. H. Olmstead oversee tests of the Deering Pony binder and Deering Ideal mower with bicycle bearings. Draft averages range from 260 to 93 pounds under various conditions, about half of typical machines. The Pony binder cuts an acre in 224 minutes using Deering paper twine. officials wrap with a prairie dinner and speeches from Gov. Shortridge and others.
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Deering
William Deering & Co
Larimore
Toasta
Shortridge
Phillipa
J. H. Keeley
Sao
D. M. Deperalta
Costa Rica
Grinevsky
Don Alberto Gomez Ruano
Uruguay
Harry Vincent
Atwater
Appleby
John F. Appleby
Woman Afraid of Electricity Boards Boston Car
A young pretty woman aboard a Boston horse car hesitates as an electric car sits behind it. The conductor, and then a policeman, assist her aboard after she frets she is terrified of electricity. She mutters she cannot help being scared and remains wary of the trolley.
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Boston
Sumner Replies to Macaulay at London Dinner
Mr GC K Tuckerman records Sumner evading a quiet rebuke by Macaulay at a London dinner. When asked where Washington’s body lay, Sumner replied that his ashes repose on the Potomac. Macaulay pressed, asking if the body had burned. Sumner answered no, noting it was buried like the hamlet’s forefathers, in ashes.
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GC. K. Tuckerman
Charles Sumner
Macaulay
London
Washington
Sumner
The
Potomac
Phonograph Captures Bell Toll of Westminster
A writer recalls the first introduction of the phonograph to a large bell in Britain and describes how a cylinder reproduced the bell’s tolling tones with astonishing fidelity as the clock struck twelve. The writer notes the experiment was tried here as well.
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Westminster
Great Britain
Bell-arm Drove Philadelphia Cable Conductor to Hospital
A Philadelphia cable car conductor was sent to a hospital to treat a habit termed bell-arm. While riding the front car of a three-car train, he instinctively lifts his arm toward an imaginary bell cord after hearing a bell. The condition is a learned, involuntary action where the arm acts before thought.
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Philadelphia
Rocks Rent by Growing Trees Near Bethlehem Cottage
A Garfield cottage one mile from Bethlehem New Hampshire features an enormous eight ton boulder split by a live white birch. The tree grew from a tiny cleft, sending roots into earth until the split widened and part of the rock moved. In the yard four smaller trees show cracks in their rocky homes.
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Garfield Cottage
Bethlehem
N.H
Bowlder
Love and defiant suitor in old town tale
A young woman tells her father of her love for George, whose bold defense of their marriage unsettles the father. The father curses the couple to keep apart, but the girl asserts George’s strength and their commitment, while the scene shifts to other curious snippets and notices.
The Earnest Youth and a Humble Mine Venture
A young man returns from South Africa and tells his father he bought a silver mine for 5000 but formed a company and sold half the stock for 6500 to a London investor. The father suspects a swindle, while the son remains cool and confident in his home. The dialogue also includes a brief social moment about calling on the daughter and a reminder to turn out the gas at 10.
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South Africa
Why Not Move to Nebraska for Cheap Farm Land
Promotes Nebraska as a farming relocation option with cheap land prices in neighboring states. Encourages readers to request free pamphlets from Francis, general agent of the Burlington Route in Omaha, to compare soil, climate, and investment potential, noting land values of 60-70 an acre in Iowa Illinois Missouri versus 10-15 an acre in Nebraska.
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Nebraska
Iowa
Illinoia
Missouri
Francis
Gene Aiger
Burlington
Omaha
Neb
Coceere
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Sams
Charles Smith
Sparta
U. S
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Br. Shoop
Marty
Ram
Bor W
Racines
Hall
Oaer
F. J. Cureny & Co
Prop's
Toledo, C
Williamson
Henderson
G. Clark Conference
Seattle
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Great Northern Railways
North Pacific Vomst
George H. Heafford
Aera Ackson
G Barbreck
St. Landry Parish
ST. Jacobs
Bridget
Mas Winacow
Muggy
Shiron St
Pacina
Lesotiios
Wares, Pa
Latover Seston
Mass
W. Baker & CO
Baker &Co
Dorchester
Washington, D.C
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