Sugar Beets Outshine Autos in Michigan's Prosperity
A Detroit hotel discussion contrasts the booming sugar beet industry with auto manufacturing. The speaker cites 1915 Michigan sugar production of 260 million pounds from 122000 acres, worth 18.2 million dollars at seven cents a pound, noting rising land values and the broader agricultural benefits from beet culture.
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Michigan
Detroit
Aladdin
Ford
Chalmers
Coffin
Willys
Jules Verne
Bay City
Noo
Wanted Ambitious Men or Women to Open Cleaning Shop
Advertisement seeks ambitious men and women to start a cleaning dyeing and pressing shop in any neighborhood. No capital or experience required. Teaches how. Contact CHAS H JAY CO Box 835 Toledo Ohio.
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Chas
H, Jay CO
Toledo
Ohio
Household Hints and Frugal Recipes from the Era
A mix of household repair tips for sewing machines and thrifty cooking ideas. Instructions cover cleaning with kerosene, lubing with oil, and softening lint, plus several simple recipes including haddock rarebit, peas and salmon bake, carrot croquettes, eggless fruit cake, cherry pie filling, baked corn with oysters, and a fruit and nut salad with pineapple and maraschino.
Sugar business praised as Michigan’s greatest economy
A speaker extols sugar as the state’s most far reaching and beneficial industry, promising farmer prosperity and urban growth, while another notes the automobile sector is the most spectacular and noisy.
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Michigan
Tabor
New U S Coins Introduce July Designs at Mint
New coin styles to take effect at U S mints in July feature on silver pieces changes since 1891 with Liberty on the half dollar and quarter. The dime shows Liberty with a winged cap. reverse bears a bundle of rods and a battle-axe.
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United States
America
Liberty
United States of America
Referendum in Far North West Vote on Prohibition and Woman Suffrage
British Columbia voters will go to the polls next September to decide on prohibition and woman suffrage. The article merges political notes with scattered, unclear details about local science and exhibits, mentioning George Th Sherer and fruit seedstock from 1811, amid fragmented phrases.
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British Columbia
Inventor touts hybrid stove for heating and washing
The article describes a new "frily stove" by inventor A W Onleout geet de what he terms a utility stove that uses gas and charcoal to boil clothes and heat irons. It claims faster ignition, safety advantages, and less fuel waste compared with traditional charcoal ovens, which burn long and consume fuel without work when left unattended.
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Ita
Invents new railroad spike at Utica to stop rail spread
A new railroad spike with three curved spurs attached to the head clamps into the wood to prevent water from seeping between the spike and the plank. The design aims to keep rail ties tight, reduce rail spreading and be cheap to manufacture.
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St Utica
Unique plant and product on boat near Oregon City
A resident of Oregon City operates a novel plant on a boat to extract commercial oil from eels and produce chicken food from eel meat. The venture, though new, proved profitable with twenty barrels of oil about 900 gallons yielding around 1000 dollars, while the chicken food sales reached several tons at 3.30 per hundred pounds.
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Oregon City
Ore
New Automatic Flour Mill Weighing and Sack Filler
A perfected automatic weighing and sack filling device for flour is patented. The machine feeds flour from a bin into a pail by gravity, stopping at a set weight, dropping flour into a sack, then returning to start. By adjusting weights it can weigh 25, 50, or 100 pounds.
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Manrue
Inventor’s three way burglar alarm clock puzzle
A Wirrentown inventor creates a three way combination double burglar alarm clock. The device rings when a key is inserted, triggers from movement of the combination, or lights the building or calls by telephone. The mechanism can be adapted for window use.
Warns Against Radium Fertilizer Use
University experiments show radium fertilizer is too expensive for farm use. Five inch soil layer contains about one milligram of radium per acre, and scaling up to double availability would cost thousands per acre with minimal or no crop benefit. The Pathfinder warns against overhyped ads for antiunt fertilizers.
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University of Tilinoly
Scwatista
Scare Bird Invention in Washington Exhibition
A green metal box device designed to frighten birds is shown by Washington’s biological curvey. It hides a wound mechanism connected to nygmna cells that discharge noise volleys at set intervals to deter birds. Time gauge fixes alarm to break of day for fruit trees.
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Biological
Curvey
Washington
Millions from Strawberries Crop Worth Estimated at Twenty Thousand
The eastern States strawberry harvest is valued at 20000 dollars this year. A metal Radliwin with a white metallic Juater is described, isolated only once or twice, seen by few people.
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France
Lxousehold Hinta
Europe
E — —‘Buss
Kathleen Burke
Mise
England
Miss Burke
U.S
Far Northwest
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Shell
Bax
George Th Sherer
Man Mchael
New Orleans
Illin
O18
University of Minds
Milick
Y .M. C. A. Automobile School Room
Mich
3. W. Greene CO
Jefferson Avenue
Toledo, Ohio
Buckeye Engraving Company
Engravera
Daisy Fly Killer
Beckmann
Optical Authorities
Adams Street
Trinity Church of Pathe
Buckeye Paint & Varnish Company
Vescorcrion
B. J. Vetteler & Son
Arcade Music Store
Arcade
Cleveland, Ohio
Ohio State University
Westfield
Adans St
Wm. H. Broer
Geo. Kapp Co
Summit St
Broer-Kapp CO
Tiedkies
Losser Bicycle
The
Toledo Sporting Goods Co
Erie Street
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