History of the Great Northern Railroad in Harrington - Part 3

Great Northern Railroad - Part 1, submitted by Marjorie Womach, was published on July 10 and Part 2 on July 17.

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In 1921 it was said that in order for the Harrington Harvester to sell its machines at distant towns, they used two small white mules that pulled and scratched their way up the old City Hall hill pulling one of their machines. They wrote that the belly of the mules drug against the ground as they forced their way up the hill. Those were...