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...Thompson of Barberton, Ohio owns a blue alarm clock. One day last month his wife noticed that a spider, which she described as a "tiny black dot," had somehow got between the face and the glass. From minute hand to hour hand the insect stretched and tethered its silky strands. The hands moved on, tore them asunder. Next hour the spider tried again; again the hands revolved, destroyed. The spider was still trying when the alarm sounded next morning. Friends & neighbors came to watch as day by day the hands grew fusty with gossamer. Each night C. C. Thompson wound...
Indirectly a unit of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. is the $60,000,000 Northern Ohio Power & Light Co. Its primary business is furnishing power but, as does many another power company, it also runs trolleys and busses. Last week the Akron, Kenmore & Barberton Bus Lines filed a $1,000,000 damage suit against Northern Ohio Power & Light, charging acts that would be most unusual in a company of Northern Ohio's size and prestige. The base of the suit was the charge that the power company conspired to have an employe work for the bus lines, that this person "maliciously...
...Barberton, Ohio, Louis Goudy, 14, of Decatur, Ind., stepped off his bike and arched two harassed insteps. Barberton is 213 miles distant from Decatur. Said Louis: "I heard grandmother was ill and I thought she might need me, so I came." Grandma was pleased...