Word: barns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm went to ruin and unrepair. The harness fell apart. Inventor Everest, always of a studious, enquiring drift of mind, tried some of Mr. John. D. Rockefeller's newfangled Pennsylvania fluid called petroleum on the harness. It softened, unstiffened. Manufacturer Everest built a small still near his barn, made harness dressing, sold it, prospered a little, but was utterly ruined by a patent suit establishing that somebody else had previously made harness dressing in the same kind of still...
Litigant Everest turned to his abandoned harness-oil still. He thought of trying petroleum for mechanical lubrication. Only wax and vegetable oils were then in use. Modern lubrication science was born at the barn. The Rochester oil business soon became too vast for Hiram Everest. Responsibility of management told on him. The Standard Oil Company bought him out at a small price, throwing in a job with a small salary, a nominal job as President of the Vacuum† Oil Co. with nothing much to do. President Everest continued to raise apples on his farm outside Rochester...
Anyone who knows of a barn capable of holding this Thespian collection should notify the Dramatic Club's office in Ridgeley Annex...
...want of a horse, the barn was lost, and for want of a barn, the Dramatic Club may be lost...
...weeks he pardoned 148 convicts, sitting up long past midnight to dictate his reasons as required by law.* Law does not compel Kentucky's Governor to prove his reasons but last week, Mr. Fields busied himself defending the innocence of convicted-&-pardoned murderers, manslaughterers, robbers forgers, embezzlers, housebreakers, barn burners...