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...prosperity by carrying to market what the community produces. So in 1912 the citizens of Forgan, at the entrance of the wheat-rich Oklahoma Panhandle, were glad when the Wichita Falls & Northwestern (now part of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas) chose their town for a terminus.- And the folk of Beaver, the county seat seven miles to the south, were chagrined because railroadless Beaver was outdone. They pooled their wheat receipts, hired a teamster at $4 a day, graded the land by eye, started a railroad to Forgan. Before half of the seven miles was finished they found their capital gone...
...Skunk or beaver secretions, for amenorrhea...
...that he contemplates disguising his myrmidons in such a way that the score-keeper will be foiled in his frenzied attempt to keep track of the errors committed. It has even been suggested that they report in human guise, since they are familiar to the public only in the beaver hats and sideburns in which they make their regular appearance in the metropolitan tabloids...
...lineage of Uncle Sam, benign personification of the nation, was again raised last week. Was this lean Yankee character in beaver hat and striped trousers who reflects the emotions of 123,000,000 people, the bastard offspring of some japester's lively imagination or was he the scion of flesh-and-blood...
...Smith, headmaster of the Beaver Country Day in Chestnut Hill, will discuss "Private Secondary Education in a Democracy". In the Inglis Lecture for 1930 Professor Thomas H. Briggs launched an attack on the private schools as selfish and having no place in the educational system. Dr. Briggs will speak on the subject from the standpoint of one associated with progressive education in the private-school field...