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...enormous crowds, set them wild with denunciation of Messrs. Moody and Sterling. Newspapers were given libel law waivers by Candidate Sterling to print anything Stumpster Ferguson said against him, but Mrs. Ferguson would not grant the Press the reciprocal privilege. Her husband, appealing to the "common folks at the fork of the creek," mocked and jibed at Candidate Sterling's handsome Bay Shore house, declared it had no less than 27 bathrooms.* accused his wife's opponent of "having lost the common touch." Boldly he admitted he would run the state government over Mrs. Ferguson's shoulder...
...means confined to rakes, hoes, pitchforks and such other humble tools is American Fork & Hoe Co. with plants in Ashtabula, Ohio, Wallingford, Vt., Fort Madison, Iowa, Harriman, Tenn., and many another rural centre. About 5% of its-gross comes from golf shafts, fishing rods, snowshoes, skis; another 5% from railway appliances like joint shims and rail anchors. Yet its chief income is from farm tools, in which it handles 60% of the U. S. trade. Last week this business was expanded when a merger with Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of Charleston, W. Va., and Skelton Shovel Co. of Dunkirk...
...Brooklyn, Samuel Kennison, 20, and Anthony Retmanski, 18, were playing baseball on opposite sides. When an argument started, Ballplayer Kennison ran to a hotdog stand, seized a fork, returned, stuck it in Ballplayer Retmanski's ear. Then, pursued by Retmanski's teammates, he jumped into the East River, remained there until a detective promised him immunity from the crowd if he would emerge and be arrested...
...wears civilized clothes (on occasions, and for effect, a fez, a flowing gown), uses the right fork, is bursting with humor...
...automatic in his hand shook nervously as he asked the passengers to "fork over." "I've got a wife and two kids at home and the railroad won't give me a job," he apologized to his victims...