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...stir it in the back yard though. There was a house built over the spring on my father's farm in Pennsylvania. Downstairs was where the springwater ran through a big trough, and there was kept the milk "crocks," butter jars, etc. In that room, we churned the butter in a good old dasher churn. Don't you remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...churn my dear Grandmother had Was made of cedar wood, And many a good old fashioned rub Of soap and sand had stood. The hoops that bound it were of brass, And shone like burnished gold. Five gallons too of cream or milk, That good old churn would hold. Ker Chunk, Ker Chunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Have Four Apples) has written a 307-page novel revolving around Luth's employes who are all on the run, and whose panic presumably inspires their employer's bad dreams. The office force of River, Mead & Luth, after seven years of hard times, has begun to churn with dissatisfaction; the young people want higher wages, the old hands want a raise, Luth believes he has done a great deal for his employes by merely keeping them at work. When young, excitable Gregory Marsh proposes a union and draws up a contract, the force splits, the young people supporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hounded People | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Home | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...electrocuter of bedbugs; eyeglasses for chickens to keep them from being pecked by other chickens; small round-pointed drill to produce dimples; egg-marker to be attached to the hen; automatic hat-tipper, to work which the user needs only to bow his head; combined rocking-chair and churn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Patent No. 2,000,000 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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