Word: ashtabula
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...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...
...Ashtabula, Ohio, a telephone company truck splattered mud on Leo Potti. Enraged Leo Potti went about cutting, chopping, sawing, shooting at the company's transcontinental telephone wires whenever he could. He was captured when he fell from a pole...
...From Ashtabula to Cincinnati, from Toledo to Marietta good Democrats everywhere marched to the primary polls to pick delegates to cast Ohio's 52 pivotal votes in next month's national convention. No native son of theirs had ever got closer to the White House than James Middletn Cox in 1920, who missed it by seven million votes. But now there was a distinct chance that the "Mother of Presidents ? would not only give the Democratic party another nominee but also put him, the first of his kind, into the Presidency...