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...Farmer George Jones and his family in their homestead three miles out of Goodwin, the nightly passing of The Southerner was "a comfort," a thing to set watches by. That night, about 7:30 p. m. Farmer Jones and two other men heard the roar of the twin Cyclone engines much nearer than usual, spied the airliner streaking past only 100 ft. above the trees. Suddenly, just after it passed from sight, the smooth drone of the engines ceased in a mighty crash like two claps of thunder. Mounting a horse Farmer Jones galloped to Goodwin, gave the alarm...
...built about 1740. It was the original Van Wagner homestead. They were one of the earliest settlers of the town. This shows that blood will tell." Said Supervisor-elect Van Wagner: "Gee, if I don't make good it's just...
...bought while convalescing at Warm Springs in 1925 (TIME, Dec. 10). Manager Moore, father of five, reported the best crops in years, said the farm's two white and five Negro tenant families looked forward to a reasonably comfortable winter. The farm, which directly adjoins a New Deal homestead project, has never paid its own way, but this year Manager Moore thought that it might even show a profit. Most of the farm's crops go to feed its 130 cattle, he explained, so he could not tell for sure about profits until next spring's stock...
...studied medicine in Zurich, quarreled with his father, left for the U. S. to make his fortune. In Nebraska he married only to leave his wife because she "refused to build the morning fires, to run through the frosty grass to catch up his team." Locating his homestead at a time when cattlemen were driving off settlers with guns, when mail was held up at the nearest post office for as long as six months, Jules fought with his neighbors, his three succeeding wives, with the law, with fellow-countrymen and friends in his determination to defend his property. While...
...struggles with nature and with his enemies were all directed to that end. He was mean, shrewd, impulsive, attractive only in his devotion to his land and the orchards he eventually established. In a life that had been stripped to the bone his qualities were essential, or the homestead and his ambitions would have been lost to the cattlemen, the landgrabbers, or the sands that swept across the country in times of drought...