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...been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway to an Eskimo." It is a land where cotton is king, and the king is dead...
Last week the bandy legs of James Takpuc, Eskimo runner, trit-trotted over the 100 miles of trail from Beechy Point, Alaska, to Point Barrow. Tired but articulate, he grunted out good news, delivered a written despatch...
Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome...
...packages of brick ice cream and bars of chocolate. Thus came the idea of a chocolate bar filled with ice cream, that is, a stick of brick ice cream coated with chocolate. Russell Stover, Omaha ice cream maker, said that he could make the confection. He invented the name Eskimo...
Bold advertising of this pert name made their Eskimo Pie popular immediately. The U. S. licked at cold chocolate bars and ice cream makers throughout the U. S. sought license to manufacture Eskimo Pie. For every dozen of these pies they made-and at the height of Eskimo Pie popularity 2,000,000 were sold daily-they paid Russell Stover and Christian K. Nelson a nickel. These men grew rich-income $1,000,000 yearly. Then the U. S. Foil Co. which manufactures wrappings for can- dies and small articles, bought control of their company and they became contented security...