Auto Racing at State Fair Grounds Set for September
The State Fair grounds host real automobile races on September 10 and 11 with the world's best drivers. Tickets range from fifty cents general admission and thirty five to seventy five cents for reserved seats. bleachers are twenty five cents. Other big features accompany the racing events, offering value beyond admission.
The Smooth Guy and the Lesson of Industry
A narrator recalls a classmate nicknamed the smooth guy who avoided work, stole exams, and eventually landed in the penitentiary. The tale warns that clever evasion fails and emphasizes the value of effort, honesty, and steady labor over luck or shortcutting.
Electrical farming gains from direct control of energy supply
The article explains how a farm powered by electricity, whether from a public service or a private plant, can reduce costs and maintenance with low voltage tungsten lamps and better engineering. The farmer maintains direct control over the entire energy supply at all times, highlighting efficiency and cost benefits of electric operation.
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Lycon
WSCA
Live Stock Prices at South Omaha
Live stock prices at South Omaha show a steady market with fat cattle holding above prior levels. Cattle traded up to 19.10 per head, with hogs very heavy at around 6.70 to 7.00 and sheep and lambs moving at steady to firm prices with bulk lambs at 7.75.
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Union
South Omaha
Gian
Wyoming
Ewes
Indian Stratagem Hero Tommy Saves Fort R From Siege
A kidnapped Indian boy named Tommy, held at Fort R, devises a daring escape plan. Bound to a fast horse with a gun at his belt he lures pursuers away, sabotages the siege, and carries a vital message to cavalry. He leads a relief column back to Fort R and earns a government pension in old age.
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Custer
Modoc
Canby
Missouri
Pacific
Atlantic
Fort. R
Fort R
MacRae
Major MacRae
Tommy
Indiana
Nen
Frohman and Belasco Stage Courageous Curtain Call
In a joint production of A Celebrated Case Frohman and Belasco sat in the audience first night. After the third act the audience urged them to take the call. Frohman balked and Belasco insisted they both go before the curtain. Frohman claimed theater ownership and urged mutual courage.
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Frohman
David Belasco
Charles Frohman
Belasco
Doing Her Best Remark Sparks Worldly Contrast
Mrs. Lambert says the evening paper reveals how the other half lives while her husband dismisses it as unbelievable. The exchange captures a sharp social contrast in a library setting in New York Times fiction.
A Ludicrous Experiment and a Long English Lawsuit
A fragment describes Holmes under chloroform writing an unclear note about a turpentine smell. It contrasts with a record of England’s longest lawsuit between the heirs of Viscount Lisle and Lord Berkeley over lands near Wootton under Edge, lasting about 120 years.
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America
England
Beatrice Express
Holmes
Thomas Talbot
Viscount Lisle
Lord Berkeley
Wootton
Edge
Gloucester
Edward I
James II
London
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