Word: barns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hamlets of Athens, Tenn., and Gilmer, West Va., got into the nation's news last week, because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
...flood destruction had been repaired. They stayed a night at Calvin Coolidge's 275-acre farm at Plymouth Notch. Housekeeper Aurora Pearce was ready for them with a fried chicken dinner and Presidential applesauce. Calvin Coolidge inspected his house from cellar to roof tree; also the barn, the hay rick, the new silo...
...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke...
...contrivance was steel framed, nine feet in diameter, with a sealed hole in the top and a ballast to make it stay upright. After completing it, Jean Lussier had been forced to hide his ball in a barn lest the Canadian Government take it away and prevent his stunt. No less than 100,000 people gathered on the river bank, most of them hoping that the ball would break on the rocks under the 155 foot water-drop...
...Albania, a model school was set up, and a farm carried on. Schneider reported that cheering and enrourage a barn before. In this atmosphere the Albania livestock had greatly disintegrated, so that any one of the cows brought from America gives as much milk as any live of the Albanian cows, according to Schneider...