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...answered. "Gravel . . . taken about eight feet deep...
...nimble Ohio farm boy named Henry M. Barnhart was operating a balky steam shovel, grubbing gravel from the Kenton, Ohio, pits for the roadbed of the new Chicago & Atlantic Railroad (now Erie). Irritated by repeated breakdowns of his crude machine, he built a model of a better one, showed it to farm machinery maker Edward Huber. Practical Mechanic Huber knew a good thing when he saw it. He got together with Inventor Barnhart and Hayman George W. King, founded the Marion Steam Shovel Co., began turning out the "Barnhart shovel...
...Tenderfoot Scouts, Dan and his gang were running the Union pickets, ducking Minie balls in No Man's Land along the Licking River outside Covington, sneaking into Union trenches, sniping at a Rebel gang across the river with rocks, scrap iron, shotguns loaded with nails and gravel...
Expenditures: Nails, 70? ; postage, 39?; work on street and bridge, $10.75; lumber, $10.10; election, $3.00; gravel, $39.40; hauling, $1.25; pump repair, $1.00; tax collector's commissions, $19.23; cash on hand, $129.30. Total...
...Dyke) for assorted skulduggeries including payroll padding, coercing employes for political contributions, conspiracy to control the bonding of highway contracts. Among the 13: Governor Earle's Secretary of the Commonwealth David Lawrence, Democratic State Chairman who is out on bail on a previous indictment in connection with a gravel scandal; his Secretary of Labor & Industry, Ralph M. Bashore; his Secretary of Highways, Roy E. Brownmiller...