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Government officials told Mrs. Morton there were two ways she could "own" White Rock: 1) Go to it, "enter" it, make a "habitable home" on it, live on it for three years, thus acquire title to it under the homestead...
...Editor Long tells us he received from the hands of Mr. Coolidge was composed by the President-hats off to Editor Long. 2) Calvin Coolidge is a native of Vermont, and migrated to Massachusetts. I was born in Massachusetts, and migrated to Vermont. But Mr. Coolidge now owns the homestead at Plymouth, he accepts the name Vermonter-so I feel that we are fellow Vermonters. 3) My occupation during more than 30 years has been editing (daily newspapers), publishing, and printing. With these premises and qualifyings, may I comment on the "Great Mystery" (TIME, March 18). You tell your subscribers...
...construction of what is known as the Gray beam. In 1904, one Henry Gray took out patents on this beam, which is rolled from one piece of steel instead of being made from several pieces riveted together. In 1926, U. S. Steel began the construction of a plant in Homestead, Pa., for the making of beams similar to the Gray beams. Thereupon Eugene Gifford Grace, Bethlehem president, announced that the Gray patents were still in force and that the making of Gray beams by a Bethlehem competitor constituted a patent infringement. Ensued a Bethlehem-U. S.Steel controversy which the courts...
...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...