Eating An Ox Is A Lot More Than Weekend Job
A columnist surveys odd facts from 1880 experiments to modern curiosities. Questions about appetite, travel, and daily life span topics from a German attempting to eat a roast ox in 42 days to counts of distress calls, parking in space, and peculiar statistics about women landowners and ostrich eggs.
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New York
Johann Ketzler
Kings College
Wilkes- Barre
America
Robert Frost
Britisher Made Citizen Of Liberal In Blizzard Ceremony
Sir Frank Markham, a British MP and Conservative, was made an honorary citizen of Liberal Eas. in a blizzard delayed ceremony at the U. S. Embassy in London. Ambassador John Hay Whitney presented the certificate as part of a cross Atlantic pancake skillet race between Olney, Buckinghamshire, and Liberal. Sandra Sibley of Olney, 18, held the best time this year. Rev Ronald Collins helped with the Olney portion of the race.
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London
Liberal
Eas
U. S
Britain
John Hay Whitney
Frank Markham
Frank
Macmillan
Conservative
Sir Frank
Dodge City
Whitney
Olney
Buckinghamshire
Ronald Collins
St. Peter's
St. Paul’s
Collins
Farmer Collects Old Pabst Check From 1914
Anton Haas of Wallace County Kansas received a $2.16 check dated August 21 1914 from the Kansas City branch of the Pabst Brewery after returning a case of 24 empty bottles. Haas now 79 found the check while sorting papers. The brewery closed in 1923 and bank records later surfaced showing a related $66.91 credit. Haas collected the $2.16.
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Kansas City
Anton Haas
Wallace County
Kas
Pabst
Haas
First National Bank
Colon Rehydration and Bulk to Restore Bowel Urge
The guidance describes restoring bowel function by remoistening dry compacted stool and adding bulk to the colon to stretch and stimulate a normal urge to defecate.
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Ottawa Lumber Co
S. Main Ph
Pomona Lumber Co., Pomona
Albright Sewing Circle
Ottawa
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Colonaid
Colonam
Ransom
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Standard
R. V
Bob" Hamilton
Motor
Polarine
W. J
Jim" Richardson
N. Main and
Tecumseh
The
Ottawa Herald
Standard Oil
Standard Service
S. Main
Floyd
Coca-Cola
Jacob Standard
Standard Research
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