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...House of Gurney, of Yankton, operating 500 filling stations over five western States, has pioneered with a. 2 ½% alcohol, 97 % gasoline blend, selling at the same price as the ordinary gas. . . . I have used it entirely since February, without any carburetor adjustments. It gives a sweet running motor. The alcohol has splendid antiknock properties. By keeping the engine carbon free it permits the use of third run gasoline, hence giving greater mileage...
...apparently never occurred to Isaac, sexagenarian son of Abraham, that Rebekah, big with twins after 20 years' barrenness, might have half betrayed him when she conceived shaggy, ruddy Esau and sleek, swarthy Jacob. Wiser in rustic folkways, Ewald Peddie, Yankton. S. Dak. farmer, taxed his wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally...
Last week Judge A. B. Tripp sitting at Yankton gave Peddie a divorce on the grounds of infidelity. The man asked and got custody of the twin who looked like him. Mrs. Peddie was left with the twin who looked like the neighbor...
Born: at Ticonic, Iowa, May 10. 1877. Start ; life: newsboy in Sioux City, Iowa. Career: While selling papers he attended Sioux City public and high schools, went to Beloit College, Wis. (1899). In 1901 he moved to Yankton, S. Dak., became and remained small-town banker. In 1902 he married Harriet R. Reustle, whom he met at Beloit (children: William Henry Jr., Dorothy). Moderately wealthy, he turned to politics, got into the Legislature in 1911. He became State senator (1913-17), lieutenant-governor (1917-21), governor...
...Churchman, liberal Episcopalian weekly, wrote its Yankton, S. Dak., correspondent last week to eulogize the late, romanticized Deadwood Dick, currently revived for the U. S. masses by William Randolph Hearst's New York American (TIME, May 19, June...