Jackscrews and a Dying Prime Minister in a Mixed Column
A jumble of notes covers topics from Jackscrews borrowed by carpenters to Le Ci Ramsey MacDonald, the former British prime minister, dying aboard Reina del Pacifico. Also mentions a looming 1940 La Guardia bid, a Creighton University gift of 125 rare volumes, a church roof repair, and a Mexican delicacy called cabrito.
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Crackey
Ramsey MacDonald
Labor Party
Reina del Pacifico
South America
Creighton University
Genevieve
Rush Creigh
Omaha
Creighton
Letter From Thos Price on loss of Velma and future plans
Thomas and Virge Price write from Tucson in November 1937 about the death of Velma Oaks Price. They describe their grief and sense of purpose after her passing, mention Claude Moyer and Velma’s burial in Evergreen Cemetery, and discuss possible moves, housing, and staying in Tucson for the winter while considering Nebraska later.
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Letty Oaks
Claude Moyer
Claude
Tucson
Nebraska
Velma
Evergreen Cemetery
First Telephone Patents and Early Dial System
The text notes 1892 patenting of the dial telephone system and recalls Bell's 1876 patent for transmitting multiple telegraphic signals on a single wire. It references Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor associated with early telecommunication patents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Graham Bell
Illinois farmer uses head to spread limestone in two days
A farmer and a helper finished spreading 45 tons of limestone using a homemade loading platform and a 75 foot rope pulley system. The article also notes experiments with fertilizer lime and rock phosphate yielding hay per acre gains and a proposed chemical delousing rig for peas.
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Illinois
Kansas
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Diller Record
J. M
Martha B. Cavett
F. T. Pearce
Diller Nebr
Watil
Jackscrews
LaGuardia
Persident
New York
States
al Smith
Thos. Price
Mrs. Geo. Riddle
Harold
Thomas
Virge
Rice
St. Apt
Ucson, Ariz
Morton’s
Jay Hawk
O. A. Cooper Company
Ben Hall
Mer. Diller
Nebr
Dorothy Beauty Shop
Beatrice
Luther League
St. Pauls
Priscilla Wayne
Wayne Sprague
Dinler Opera House
Betty Stephens
Gracie Stephens
Stephens
Johnny Stephens
Mr. Bates
Roger McClain
Sister McClain
Ralph Johnson
Johnson
Merlyn Lottman
Mary Wenz
Anne Wenz
Edward Behrends
Robert Glathar
Clarence Hullman
Harold Lottman
Leona Roseman
Harold Saathoff
Mildred Roseman
Johnny
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