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...fact that we, in North Dakota, who live West of the Mississippi River where some of our good neighbors in the East seem to think the climate unlivable, the 'wild jackasses run rampant,' where the buffaloes still eat our cabbages in our gardens and the Indians scalp our children on their way to school, nevertheless can raise high-class stock and grains of all kinds. . . . North Dakota is rapidly forging to the front as a highly diversified farming State...
...Berkshires by two puffing locomotives, fore and aft, Harvard's varsity football squad, with its full complement of variegated retainers and a score of Boston newspapermen, paused for ten minutes here late this evening, bound for Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the Crimson's first quest for a big ten scalp on the latter's own battleground...
...great City of Purity is working up. First it smote Dreiser, a contemporary, but for that reason not a sufficiently illustrious scalp. Hence it was found necessary to go back 170 years, to fasten upon an author who has indubitably stood the test of time. Shakespeare's turn is next, we see it coming! Daily Princetonian
...strong St. John's Preparatory baseball forces will invade Soldiers Field for the second time of the season this afternoon at 4 o'clock, and their aim will off a second Crimson scalp. On a former appearance they drubbed the 1932 outfit and today they will take on the seconds with every indication pointing towards a successful culmination to their endeavors...
...will. He reported that, as a child, he had varioloid measles, sore throat and "colds." When he was twelve he had struck his head upon a stone and gone unconscious for a short time. Then he walked home. Apparently there were no after results. But for years his scalp had felt tender. In adult life he had had typhoid, acute rheumatism, labyrinthine deafness, pneumonia five times, influenza, chronic laryngitis, chronic ulcer of nasal septum...