Word: elmer
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...Wallace Russell Harper197 *Gardner Lothrop Lewis Jr. 148 *Bernard Barnes 107 Howard Theodore Wenner 106 Arthur Lithgow Devens Jr. 105 Lawrence Witherspoon Dickey 85 James Elmer Barrett 84 Morris Ruggles Brownell Jr. 75 William Potter Lage 53 William Wallace Ryan 43 Edward Carl Dieckerhoff 35 Carl Schurz Petrasch Jr. 30 Total votes cast 1068 Total ballots 373 Valid ballots 356 Unsigned ballots 17 *Elected
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
...Nebblepredders it is reasonable to suppose that the incurably curious, a considerable group, would have patronized pasteboard peddlers.. But the reigning dynasty thought otherwise and just called it any old thing, spelled as above. The Nebblepredders were the family concerned?Pop Nebblepredder, Ma Nebblepredder, Herbie Nebblepredder, Eva Nebblepredder, Elmer Nebblepredder, Josie Nebblepredder?all Nebblepredders. A Nebblepredder, that is to say these Nebblepredders, were poor Nebblepredders. Their hope and true salvation was Elmer Nebblepredder, who earned $20 a week. Other Nebblepredders nibbled at his salary ceaselessly, particularly Ma Nebblepredder, whose false teeth took a $200 nibble and then wouldn...
Many a hapless pilot has crashed, died in flames ; many a plane burst afire in midair. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, famed inventor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., believes the fire menace mastered. His company has developed a Diesel airplane engine. Fuel oil for Diesel engines is non-inflammable...
With Upton Sinclair announcing a new novel called "Boston", in which one assumes that the foundations of the city will be rocked and shattered, with Elmer Davis asking in Harper's "What Has Happened to Boston?", with the memory not yet obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in the pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel...