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...would not go to the trouble of breaking it with a spoon. So he consulted a machinist and worked out a process for drawing the cooked wheat into shreds, forming the shreds into loaves, and baking the loaves in coal ovens. After peddling his biscuits in baskets around Lincoln, Neb. and Denver, Col., Mr. Perky acquired some money, moved to Worcester, Mass., started a Shredded Wheat factory...
Died. Mrs. Mary E. Butler, sister who since the death of Mrs. Pershing and three daughters in a San Francisco fire (1915); has made a home for Gen. John Joseph Pershing in Lincoln, Neb., after a long illness; in Lincoln. General Pershing's only son, Warren, is a Yale sophomore...
...name. Last week, Coach Bearg and the Nebraska squad boarded a special train for West Point; on the squad were 34 men, though one of them, Willard Urban, who lost a coin toss to be the last man taken, had his fare paid by friends. The newspapers of Lincoln, Neb., printed advertisements saying "Beat the Army," Nebraska's Governor sent a telegram; a great parade of students moved through the streets; the noise of the train as it pulled out of Lincoln was not so loud as the noise made by those who watched it go; a day later...
That, at least, is where he put it last week when he slept at a hotel in Lincoln, Neb. In the morning, the pocketbook was still there but Senator Borah's money, some $400, was gone. Gone too was some $300 which Senator Borah's secretary Sam Jones, had left in the pockets of his clothes. A just man, Senator Borah said: "I want it understood that we attach no responsibility for the loss to the State of Nebraska nor to the welcoming committee...
...Omaha, Neb., Sept. 18 (speech...