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Farmer Charles Lewis was proud of his thoroughbred Jersey bull, sire of all the calves born on the Lewis farm at Burlington, N. J. Farmer Lewis' children were just as proud of a pet monkey their father had given them. All winter the monkey lived in the Lewis barn, playing simian pranks on Farmer Lewis' kine. Wary it avoided the bull-until one day last week...
...head and charged, the monkey leaped into the air, landed on a shelf above the bulls reach. There it amused itself bv tearing open a bag of green powder scattering the contents on the bull's hay The bull began eating the hay. When Farmer Lewis entered the barn he found his bull poisoned, dying. The monkey was still chattering while it licked Paris green from s paws. Grim Farmer Lewis said nothing. Soon the monkey stopped chattering curled up, died...
Like many a successful manufacturing company, Perfect Circle had a hard time finding itself at first, which was towards the close of last century when Charles Teetor and a brother John began to make things in their Hagerstown barn. They made a hand car for railroads and in 1895 organized Railway Cycle Manufacturing Co. Later they began to make internal combustion engines and in 1914 the company became Teetor-Hartley Motor Co. Four years later they decided to specialize in piston rings and until 1928, when the present name was assumed, the company was Indiana Piston Ring...
...Bailey Combined Shows, which no longer needs to bill itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth." For John Ringling, sole survivor of Barnum & Bailey and the seven brothers Rüngeling of Baraboo, Wis., it was his 54th season of showmanship, which began with a pin-show in an Iowa barn and now undisputedly monopolizes U. S. circus entertainment. The monopoly consists of six big tent shows, four of which this year will carry Circus into all profitable corners of the land...
...commencement reunion 600 alumni voted to build a house for the principal. But they could not wait! They ran off to the barn, hauled out plows, climbed a high hill and began to dig at once . . . that was in 1912, at Mount Hermon School for Boys...