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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beside the railroad yards in Superior. Long freight and ore trains trundled by constantly. President Coolidge threw in the first ball and the first battery knocked it out-of-the-lot.* Mrs. Coolidge munched chocolates and watched vivaciously. John Coolidge, though there were many hits, errors, wild throws, etc., looked badly bored. The President left after the third inning-his baseball custom...
...bulk to industrial concerns or to exploit them himself. He discussed the manufacture of alcohol from grain, potato, fruit residues; utilization of unfit lemons for making citric acid, working up steam waste into carbon, illuminating gas, acetic acid, furfural;* new methods of using lactose, casein, starch, sucrose, dextrose, etc. Old Foes. Molds have always been considered food destroyers, ruining bread, milk, fruit, everything on which their furry hairy mycelia develop. Dr. H. T. Herrick of the U. S. Department of Agriculture explained the disciplining of these molds to the service of man. Since Biblical days molds have been used...
Born. To Ann Harding (Mrs. Harry Bannister), actress (The Taming of the Shrew, The Trial of Mary Dugan, etc.), a nine-pound daughter; in Pittsburgh...
...Thomas Barlow Walker, 88, lumberman, art collector, philanthropist; of old age; in Minneapolis. Once a peddler of grindstones to farmers, he was recently said to have a fortune of $100,000,000, much of which he gave to the city of Minneapolis (The Walker Art Galleries, the Public Library, etc.) and to various charities...
Seeking explanations of this happy situation, steelmen considered: 1) new automobile models; 2) Ford Motor Co. expansion; 3) record farm implement business; 4) purchase of 65,000 tons of rails for Northern Pacific, Great Northern, etc.; 5) active building construction, particularly in New York...