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...early period, Kokomo followed the frontier tradition. There were shootings, barn-burnings, tar-&-featherings. Somebody stole the elaborate metal hitching rack from the courthouse. Somebody else burned down the courthouse. The railroad came to town in 1854 and 32 years later Kokomo had its industrial revolution with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also...
...their money on automobiles, zipper jackets, silk dresses. At a Winston-Salem warehouse, where the average price has been well over $30 per cwt., Farmer R.C. Johnson, patting his wallet, explained: "We paid our debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around to the house and painted that." Another farmer walked into a bookshop with a wad of bills, demanded five copies of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty...
Francis Lederer and Joan Bennett by the leading bundlers in this intelligent sparkling comedy that pokes fun at No England's blue laws of Revolutionary days. Leaderer, a violin-playing Hessics soldier deserts the English forces and turns up in Miss Bennett's barn milking a cow. He is taken a prisoner of war, but this hinders him very little first gazing soulfully into Jean's eyes or from playing the piano and singing romantic songs to her, or indeed from leaving the confinement one wintry night and bundling with her in the parlor...
...Moral," by Ludwig Thoma, the comedy presented Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, and Tuesday to Friday of next week, by the Ford Hall Players at The Barn at 36 Joy Street, is a biting satire on the "double standard" as it exists in the German middle class. The play deals with a Society for the Suppression of Vice, all of whose members find their reputations threatened when the police raid the disorderly house kept by Madame Ninon de Hautville, a "lady of leisure," whose establishment is recommended by the most fashionable gentlemen...
...Month by Rev. Fred Earl Dean, chaplain of the State Grange, in Rochester. Excerpt: "Jesus taught that human life is holy. Since milk means life to the human race, milk is also holy. Yes, I know how it smells and sticks, and how your shoes look around a dairy barn. I know the smart of a cow's tail swished in your eye on a hot summer night, and the sound of greedy hogs in a trough of sour milk. . . . I know the unholy feel of the business at the bottom. Still, we must insist that anything as essential...