Word: ashtabula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because an Ashtabula bowler was kept at home by his wife's illness last week, one Mike Blazek of nearby Conneaut, Ohio, was recruited to substitute for him in the American Bowling Congress tournament, which was last week entering its seventh and final week in Chicago's huge Coliseum (TIME, April...
...factory worker who bowls thrice a week and averages 200, Mike Blazek was no blazing ball of fire on the Ashtabula team. In the five-man event, he bowled a creditable enough 610 (for three games), in the doubles he posted 614. In the singles, he started out even worse with discouraging scores of 171 and 145 for his first two games. But suddenly in his third game, Mike Blazek began to hear again & again the hallowed sound that is music to a bowler's ears-the clean, choral crash that means a strike. Eight, nine, ten times...
...transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo and Sandusky they returned, carrying coal from the bituminous fields of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, to the industries of Detroit, Milwaukee, Duluth and the Northwest. From Duluth and from the gigantic grain elevators of Fort William...
Cleveland, O.: John H. Koren '39, Ashtabula, O.; James G. Miller '37, Lake wood...
...Barter blossomed. In Ashtabula a newspaper offered to print free advertisements of goods for swapping. Two commodity exchanges in Milwaukee found long lines of would-be customers waiting on their doorsteps the morning after the Wisconsin holiday went into effect. A wrestler signed a contract for a match with any opponent accepting as payment a can of tomatoes and a peck of potatoes. In Manhattan, admission to a Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament could be had for cigars, combs, soap, chisels, groceries, kettles-anything worth 50?, plus 5? cash for taxes...