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ROBERT STUCKENRATH Lewistown...
...said to have fostered these notions, it is Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, which first appeared in 1915. Masters, who died in 1950 at the age of 81, was a Chicago lawyer-turned-poet who had grown up in Petersburg and Lewistown, 111. In Masters' book, 244 small-town dead speak their autobiographical epitaphs in free verse. Spoon River Anthology was the logical forerunner of Winesburg, Ohio, Main Street, and Our Town, as well as such garbage as Peyton Place...
...trials, as well as during everyday dial twirling, is pure Venusian. but the hams call it "Q" signals. Examples: QXR for "stand by for a minute"; QTH for "where do you live?" Curiously enough, this kind of talk can bring romance. Typical is the case of Florence Majerus of Lewistown, Mont., who set up the first QSO (direct communication) between a YL (young lady) friend. Jean Bustard, and Max Stout, a radio officer in the merchant marine. Transmission was FB (fine business), and each was soon signing off with 88 (love and kisses). Eventually he proposed, and Jean became...
Beginner's Luck. In Lewistown, Pa., arrested for driving without a license, Hurley Treaster, 50, was sentenced to three to six months in jail after he proudly told police that he hadn't used one since...
...nearly 600 rodeos. In his 14-year career, Linderman has also collected some spectacular bruises, e.g., a fractured skull at Pueblo, Colo. (1943), a broken neck and back at Deadwood, S. Dak. (1946), not to mention a broken hand in New York City, and a broken leg at Lewistown, Mont...