Honest Men and the Great Western Mica Company
Three men Moses Ikestein Jim Greene and Dick Grahame scheme to profit from a fake mica mine. They lure a gullible investor with promised high dividends and land deals, using a fake company to tempt the public. A year later the fraud collapses as the sucker exits with losses and the men confront the consequences of their deceit.
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Lebla
Mr. Ikestelo
Mr. Greene
Great Western Mice Company
Greene
Mr. Ikestein
Grahame
Mr. Grahame
Servings Bank
Enautomobilea
Savings Bank
Arctic Peach Company
Velocity of a Shot Through a Revolving Drum Device
Marvin Holton explains a drum apparatus that measures muzzle velocity by spinning a cylindrical drum at 2000 RPM while a fired bullet creates a timing gap in its moving edge. By recording the bullet’s passage at known drum positions the muzzle velocity at various ranges is computed, with notes on windage and shotgun pellet behavior at forty yards.
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Fowler
Marvin Holton
Chicago Tribune
Wheat and livestock market roundup across Chicago and Midwest
Chicago wheat futures drifted lower amid larger world shipments and mixed supports. Cattle, hogs, and sheep at St Louis Kansas City and Omaha markets showed lower opens and varied demand with heavy receipts. Chicago produce and cash wheat and corn prices listed. New York stocks mixed with several major firms posting gains.
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Chicago
The Other National Game Mrs Galery Arrival Home Joke
The fragment presents a comic exchange about arriving home at 6 a.m. with a punchline about daylight. A quoted Buddha line on ending hatred by love appears, framing a brief, reflective aside within a humorous scene.
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Galery
Galey
Puck
Potatoes Prices Fall Across Regions In Chicago Market
Chicago reports show a sharp drop in potato prices with Wisconsin becoming the bulk supply and selling at 65 to 70 cents by the car. Minnesota and Ohio shipments moderate while Maine stocks hold at 80 to 85 cents. Demand locally dull but out‑of-town orders rise. further declines expected as earlier stock ages. Butter steady though oleo margins shrink. Taft to visit and cut a world’s largest cheese weighs 12,000 pounds. Cantaloupes and grapes see varied demand with price pressures and improved wine buyer activity. Apples abundant with mixed value. markets report heavy receipts and regional price shifts.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Trea
Manitoba
Turkey
Italy
Northwestern
Elgin Butter Board
Taft
International Daily Show
Grand Junction
Michigan
York State
Prices on the Public Markets
Clammy morning weather thinning wagon crowds at local markets. About forty teams with produce reported. watermelons musk melons walnuts and butternuts sold. Independence butter at 28 cents LaPorte at 29 cents. Saturday butter sales reached 960 pounds. daily average around 40 pounds.
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Black Hawk Creek
Independence
LaPorte
Endeavorer protest marks Iowa Christian session
At Oskaloosa Iowa the Iowa Christian Endeavor union held a strenuous annual session with a sensational tone. A telegram to President Taft urged him to oppose Secretary Wilson attending the Chicago Brewers convention. Fifteen young people pledged to missionary work, and Grinnell won the bid for the 1912 convention against Cedar Rapids and Des Moines. Officers were reelected. H H Van Horn of Des Moines as president and William Hardcastle of Iowa Falls as vice president, with a full slate of officers named for various roles.
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Oskaloosa
Iowa Christian Endeavor Union
William H. Taft
St. Louis
Iowa
Wilson
Chicago
H. E. van Horn
Zerelda Black
Set'y
Moon Grinnell
Cedar Rapids
Des Mothes
H. H. van Horn
Des Moines
William Hardcastle
Iowa Falls
H. W. Kruger
Lake Park
J. M. Rich
Hubbard
E. L. Condon
the Grande
Laura D. Garst
Belie Powers
New Hampton
Iowa Christian Endeavor Bulletin
Hardcastie
Large crowd tours opening of First Western Bank building
A large turnout attended the bank opening reception with many visitors who could not attend earlier. Employees guided guests through the handsome quarters while Louis Alberti performed harp music and American Beauty roses enhanced the decor.
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First W National Bbank
Louis Alberti
New Comet Visible In Northwest Sky Tonight
The new comet appears as a good sized, blurry star in the northwest each clear evening. It forms the head of the Dragon constellation or can be located by imagining a triangle from the North Star to the Big Dipper’s lower pointer, visible without a telescope.
How to Make Genuine Mayonnaise by French Method
The article explains genuine mayonnaise as made with olive oil egg yolk and vinegar in a non cooked method. It gives a precise drop by drop technique, proportions, and steps to emulsify, chill readiness, beat constantly, and add vinegar slowly for a smooth dressing.
French policemen and a parade of brief items
A collage of vignettes on policing in France praised for restraint and courtesy, contrasted with a bank clerk in Oakland who plays in a band, a simple antidote to poison using household honey, and quick quips from papers about marriage plans and parrots. The Chicago Record-Herald notes baseball in a fleeting line.
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Oakland
Joe
Benny
San Francisco Chronicle
London Family Herald
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