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...stopping to explain where the spending money was to come from, Dr. Townsend sat down amid rapturous cheers, whistles, yells, and ringing of cow bells by his convinced disciples...
...ways," comes out striated with layers of green and white beneath the red. To approximate the colors with which pious artisans glorified God at Chartres and Poitiers, Artist Saint has cooked up messes of egg-yolk, hollyhock, calendula and portulaca. To get a certain yellow, Mr. Saint boiled a cow's hoof, as a medieval manuscript directed. So noisome was the process that Artist Saint had to yell for his sons to carry the bubbling hellbroth away...
...farm in Ohio. It's about 1.200 acres, and I have a number of tenants on it with nice homes and three acres apiece for farms and livestock. Nary a one has a cow, nary a one has a chicken, nary a one has a pig, and nary a one has a vegetable garden. But every danged one of 'em has an automobile. I reason that no man making $2 a day can afford to run an automobile. It just can't be done on a sound economic basis...
Beyond the Mexican capital, the Inter-American Highway is paved for 165 miles to Tehuacan, after which it gradually degenerates from gravel to dirt to cow tracks. At Chiapas, 185 miles from Guatemala, it halts completely in a maze of mountains. From the Guatemala border to Guatemala City there are 310 miles of road, of which 192 are impassable in wet weather. From Guatemala City there is a fine gravel road for some 200 miles to San Salvador. Beyond lie 87 miles of dry-weather road, which trickles into nothing but a track with occasional good patches as it cuts...
Born. To Carnation Ormsby Butter King, 9. world champion milk cow, who last year produced 38,000 Ib. of milk, 1,750 Ib. of butter (TIME, Feb. 24); and Sir Inka May; mixed twins, their third set; at Carnation Farm, near Seattle, Wash...