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Show w INVESTS $30,000 IN NORTH POLE ICE SCOOP Smooth Grafters Find it Easy to Separate Foolish People and Government Bonds. Minneapolis. Kan. Gallileo Grab, head of the Aurora Borealis Ice Company, Com-pany, is on his way to the north Pole to fasten a scoop on Dr. Cook's new discovery. He took with him $,'i0,000 invested by Homer Hogarth, a farmer here, in the Aurora Borealis Ice Co., according to Hogarth, who asked for a warrant. One blazing hot day last July Gallileo, Gal-lileo, tall, dark, and excitable, and wearing an impressive black beard, appeared on Hogarth's farm with a surveyor's instrument, pointing it towards to-wards the skies. He seemel pre-oc-cupied for hours, as if calculating an abstruse problem in mathematics, Hogarth Ho-garth was watching him. Finally he exclaimed excxitedly, "This is the spot, the very spot." According to Hogarth, Galhleo tried to buy his farm, offering him a fabulous fab-ulous sum, but after a fourth visit, revealed that his calculations proved Hogarth's farm to be the point where an unending flow of ice would fall were a scoop attached to the North Pole, which Gallileo described as a sti'el girder projecting from the center cen-ter of the earth. Gallileo said he had seen it, as he had been with Peary. He then told Hogarth his plan for the Aurora Borealis Ice Company, taking $:i0,000 from Hogarth as a partnership fee the farmer says, leav-:ng leav-:ng Hogarth on the farm to take care of the ice while he made a second trip ! to the pole to attach the scoop. His theory was that scoop attachced to the pole would tear loose billions of tons of ice as the earth revolved, and I would gradually trip, Hinging Its content con-tent on Hogarth's farm. Cyrai Stronghead, whose farm adjoins ad-joins Hogarth'e, went to the bank on i hearing of his neighbor's loss to see . if his Liberty Bonda row still there. They w, re go were ln War BOVingS Stamp-;. |