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Surprising Tales of Frontier Hospitality and Lipton’s Early Venture
Fragmentary reminiscences describe homesteaders sharing shelter and food with strangers despite poverty, plus an account of Sir Thomas Lipton’s first business venture in Glasgow. The piece mixes frontier life anecdotes with a Detroit News note on phosphates and potash produced from electric furnaces.
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Jamilea
Viola I
Paradise
Beribner’s
Buster
I. Victrola Ang
Upton
E Firet
Business Ventura
J. E. Ostrander
Thomas Lipton
Lipton
Ventrre
Glasgow
Detroit News
Wartme