Potatoes for sale and local news from Boyden area
Local notices report potatoes for sale at $1.25 per bushel and various farm sales. Reports list residents visiting Sioux Center and Sioux City, threshing trips to North Dakota, travel to Missouri Valley, and theater of community events. Family news includes visitors, car purchases, and hospital updates.
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Balster
G. K. Dickevers
Michigan
Frank Willert
Leo Meyn
North Dakota
A. Dekker
Ralph Vander Pol
Josie Mieras
Little Esther Landhuis
Sioux Center
Chester
Jake van Diepen, Sr
Boyden
Mary Rehal
Freida Rizk
Sioux City
Joe Steven
A. Steenhoven
Gilbert Grooters
Walter D. Velder
Harley James
Vande Hoef
Louis Bouma
Chicago
Ill
Benj. de Jong
Nettleton Commercial College
Sioux Falls
Anna de Valois
George Gosselink
Ford
Grooters Tire
Gerrit Scholten
Yellowstone National Park
South Dakota
Willert
Fred Boerhave
Hubert Maris
Maris
Hull
Rare Poe first edition sold for twenty five thousand
A Boston book dealer sold a perfect copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tamerlane for $25,000 on commission for a sixty year old woman who had never ridden in a taxi. The sale highlights the book’s extreme rarity and high auction value.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Boston
The Skill and Risk of Cutting Faceted Diamonds
The article explains diamond faceting from rough to finished gem. It describes grinding, setting in lead tin composition, lathe polishing at 2800 RPM, and the iterative facet process. Facet counts vary by stone size from 18 to 58, with larger gems demanding more facets.
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London Daily Express
Mole's Food Supply and Storing Habits
The mole stores large quantities of food to sustain itself, consuming about its own weight every 48 hours. It often caches worms in its run, seemingly deprived of mobility but still alive. This near at hand store aids dry weather feeding when its preferred diet is scarce.
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Spray Motor Co
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Scooter
Kelloggs
Stegemanns
Omaha
Hotel Conant
Harry Stientjes
Myers
Sheldon
Jake Brouwer
Montana
Jake
M. J. Brouwer
Hein Hofstra
Edgerton
Minn
Andrew
Netherlands
A. Vanden Brink
George Tott
S. H. DeVries
Harry Rensink
Vanden Brink
van Roekel
John Horn
Co-Operative
Albert Kooy
Hazel Spencer
Rudolf Henning
Henry van Houte
Carl Hirt
Henry Korte Kamp
Bickmore
Hilton Bros. Drug CO
Des & i Pn
Becker & Scott's Drug Store
H.R. Cochran
Iowa
P. V. Lynch Jeweler
E. A. James
Optometrist
U.S
Pat Off
F. W. Nelson
Wilson Meat Market
Jake van Leeuwen
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