Word: burlaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Mr. Kearns entered the burlap business in '88, succeeding with his brother the firm of J. P. Kearns & Co. dealing in burlaps, a pioneer in that line. Instead of doing business from dilapidated hand carts he bought and sold in carload lots, until his retirement from business in 1922. . . . When he retired from business he continued to invest his money and was known along La Salle Street as a shrewd bond buyer. He never dealt in old rags, junk or bottles and was never known as "Bill...
...their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders, blood oozing from their undressed wounds. The wife of the mule barn boss had crawled to safety in the cold boiler. The besieged had had no food for two days; they sipped dirty water from the boiler pipes. At any second they expected to be rushed...
Item. Footprints, large enough to be a man's but muffled by burlap or moccasins, traceable toward the main road which bounds the eastern edge of the 350-acre estate. Other footprints, small enough to be a woman's, joined them a short distance from the house...
During the construction of the Memorial Chapel and the new portion of Adams House, an unusual kind of material is being used in the windows until the glass can be put in. Instead of the customary cheese-cloth, a material made of cellophane reinforced with burlap is in use to keep out the rain and snow, and make the buildings canier to heat during the process of construction. It is similar to the material used in shipping coffee from South American ports...
...followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist glued the tanned skin, sewed up seams, inserted made-to-order glass eyes. After a little further grooming Ador Tipp Topp stood last week as big and alert as ever he looked at a kennel show...