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* If you haven't noticed, the "insurance company" pages have been slowly improving, with new information and images scanned from my archives.  For your consideration: [[Pioneer_Mutual_Life_Insurance_Company|Pioneer Mutual Life]], [[Lincoln_Mutual_Life_and_Casualty_Insurance_Company|Lincoln Mutual Life]], and the [[Ancient_Order_Of_United_Workmen|Ancient Order of United Workmen]].
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* One day, on a [[:Category:Walkabout|walkabout]], we ran across a classy steel shed that looked like it was built out of recycled tin ceiling tiles.  The construction was so fine, including neat finials, that we figured it must've been a kit garage.  A little research, and we discover we met a [[The_Rusk_Auto-House|Rusk Auto-House]], manufactured right here in [[:Category:Fargophilla|Fargo]]. (''article in progress'')
  
 
*[[Image:Everyday Science and Mechanics, November 1934 - Cover.jpg|right|80px]][[:Category:Everyday_Science_and_Mechanics%2C_November_1934|Everyday Science and Mechanics, November 1934]]:  one of those excellent magazines that mix sci-fi with hard science.  Modern magazines avoid this, but back in the day it seemed like nothing was going to keep us from our flying cars. <br/>[ [[:Image:Everyday_Science_and_Mechanics%2C_November_1934_-_Cover.jpg|Start of slideshow]] ] - [ [[:Image:Everyday_Science_and_Mechanics%2C_November_1934_-_007.jpg|Most Recent]] ]<br style="clear: right;">
 
*[[Image:Everyday Science and Mechanics, November 1934 - Cover.jpg|right|80px]][[:Category:Everyday_Science_and_Mechanics%2C_November_1934|Everyday Science and Mechanics, November 1934]]:  one of those excellent magazines that mix sci-fi with hard science.  Modern magazines avoid this, but back in the day it seemed like nothing was going to keep us from our flying cars. <br/>[ [[:Image:Everyday_Science_and_Mechanics%2C_November_1934_-_Cover.jpg|Start of slideshow]] ] - [ [[:Image:Everyday_Science_and_Mechanics%2C_November_1934_-_007.jpg|Most Recent]] ]<br style="clear: right;">

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  • One day, on a walkabout, we ran across a classy steel shed that looked like it was built out of recycled tin ceiling tiles. The construction was so fine, including neat finials, that we figured it must've been a kit garage. A little research, and we discover we met a Rusk Auto-House, manufactured right here in Fargo. (article in progress)
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    John Till, the Somerset Doctor arrived in my life as a crushed-corner postcard bought at a Wisconsin antique shoppe. Who was this doctor, famous enough to get a postcard? To have extraordinary P.R. you need to do extraordinary things, and Till promised such magic.
  • Has a well-wishing friend forwarded you a warning about unsolicited parking-lot perfume sales? Most of them mention Fargo at the very top -- here's why.
  • Do you know Ole Sageng? Schoolteacher, farmer, and representative of his neighbors in the Minnesota state senate; he tried for US Senate twice, but failed.
  • A place I didn't know existed, even though I probably passed it a million times when I was a kid: The New Palace Hotel. Like oh-so-many 'second floor' flophouse hotels that existed in Fargo through the 1970s and 1980s, it lived hidden-away above retail storefronts. in 1990, it burned down; arson is the prime suspect. I found a number of clippings about it in a box of ephemera from The Rage, one of the stores destroyed in the fire.
  • A new category, given the number of such objects I'm interested in scanning: Maps. Most are extremely large 300-dpi files, so that their information can remain useful.
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