Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rain, into the life of Shep Tideboy, came Phoebe Dibble & her father, Hooker Dibble, purveyor of herbs. During the night old Hooker passed on, was buried by a solemn little processional. Phoebe stayed on at the Louisiana homestead of the Tideboys until Shep's guardian, Cesar Honfleur, persuaded Shep to acquire an education, respectability. Shep & Phoebe were married. In an incredibly short time Shep mastered Latin, went to the University of Texas, won a fellowship. But Phoebe, tiring of trying to learn out of books, fearful lest she retard the progress of Shep, returned to the road, stayed several...
...lights turned on. Then, Ada, youngest and adopted Greene daughter, was shot in the back, but did not die. Then, Chester Greene was killed; then- but that would spoil the story. Anyway, all the Greenes hated each other like poison; they were forced to live together in the old homestead with their irascible mother, by the will of their father...
...Sinclair waved aside the stock certificate for his third of the "Tres Rios Club," telling Everhart to put it away for him at Tres Rios, b) that the "Tres Rios Club" never materialized. All that happened was that Father-in-law Fall paid off some debts on the old homestead. Commenting last week on his son-in-law's so belated testimony, Father-in-law Fall said: "It was an open business deal. .... There is nothing to conceal...
...mechanical engineers of middle age, Mr. Schwab's doctrines had a further significance. Those men could recall the bloody Homestead Strike of 1892 when Mr. Schwab, then one of the late Andrew Carnegie's "young men" and a superintendent of the Carnegie Steel Co., was obliged to proceed violently against the steel employes. The company had ordered wages reduced. The workmen refused to work for less money and took possession of the steel 'works. The company hired Pinkerton detectives who, armed with Winchester rifles, came up the Ohio River on two barges. The workmen threw up barricades...
Ludlow, Vt., home of U. S. Attorney John Garibaldi Sargent, eleven miles from Montpelier, was completely submerged. Mrs. Sargent escaped injury. The Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt., was not reached by the waters but not far away, Pauline Hall, an invalid, was caught by the cloudburst and marooned in an automobile. She died...