The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 28, 1906
All Students Eligible
High Schools Students Will Not be Barred From Athletics.
According to a section of the Principal’s Rules under which the Fort Dodge High School plays, all those, who are not up in three studies in the currliculum (sic) of the school, shall be barred from participating in athletic events. Principal Thomas said yesterday that this will not effect any of the students this quarter but that unless those who wish to enter athletics have passed in at least three studies, they will not be allowed to represent the school next quarter. There are many of the members of the school who are thinking of entering for the basket ball team which is talked of as a possibility. There are many good players in this game and Fort Dodge could have a strong team.
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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 28, 1906
New Auto on the Market
International Harvest Co. Making and Selling Autos
The International Harvest Company has entered the automobile field and is now making a very low priced automobile. The design of the machine is very unusual for an automobile but it is said to be good looking. It has the appearance of an ordinary one seated buggy with wooden wheels and hard rubber tires with the motor under the seat and the radiator in front of the dashboard. The engine is rated at eight horse power and has been found to go thru mud which others autos could not go thru. The price has been fixed at between two and three hundred and dollars and a strong sale is already being felt. One has been ordered by a local party while a Sac City businessman has ordered one. It is expected that later the company will start to manufacture surreys. This vehicle will be very popular with the farmers, many of whom are now using gasoline engines on their farms.
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The Fort Dodge Messenger: Sept. 28, 1906
A Lost Pair of Pajamas
Fort Dodge Man Loses Pajamas in Sleeper; Notifies Compnay (sic).
Not a very long time ago, one of the railroad offices of this city received a letter from a prominent official in a certain establishment of this city asking for the return of a pair of pajamas which he lost in a sleeper while on his way to Chicago.He asked that they be sent to him. The railroad company sent on the letter to the Pullman company who sent back a reply which has caused a good joke. Their letter regretted to say that the pair of pajamas which were left in the berth had not been located but replied by saying that a pair of ladies hose was found in the same berth and requested the Fort Dodge gentleman to put in a claim for them if they belonged to him. This letter the railroad company sent to him. While lying on a desk in the office of the establishment of which the man is a local head, the letter was placed in the mail sent to the headquarters of the establishment in Grand Rapids. At first the young lady who opened the missent letter was shocked but soon she recovered her equilibruim (sic) and showed it to the other twelve stenographers who are employed in the office. It was then returned to the man here. All of his friends who are in on the joke are giving him the horse laugh, notwithstanding his strenuous efforts to keep the affair a secret. It is too good to keep.
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