Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voice of Oregon (Charles H. Martin...
...later. Colonel Elverson's daughter, an international belle, married French Ambassador Jules Paternõtre in the 1890's, inherited the Inquirer at her brother's death in 1929, sold it within a year to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis and his stepson-in-law John C. Martin for part cash, part credit...
Under the Curtis-Martin ownership the Inquirer started downhill to failure. Combining it with the famed old Public Ledger failed to slow its descent. In 1934 the Inquirer bounced back on the Paternõtres when the Curtis-Martin interests could no longer pay off their recurrent notes. Still carrying the old Ledger nameplate,* the Inquirer was administered for its absentee owners by Publisher Charles A. Tyler. Morning competition in Philadelphia was supplied by rambunctious New Dealer J. (for Julius) David Stern and his bustling Record (circulation: 221,927). When the Paternõtres sold...
Gilbert and Lana Martin found out what the War was going to mean when Indians led by Tories burnt their five-acre farm that represented two years of labor, killed the cow that represented all their wealth. Then when the Valley people were cooped up in the stockade at Little Stone Arabia, Lana's first child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became...
...enemy off, directed a six-hour battle despite a shattered leg, he lost his life when General Benedict Arnold sent an inexperienced doctor to amputate. Before the War was over Valley people were about as bitter about the Continental Congress as they had been about the Tories. When Gilbert Martin went to draw his militiaman's pay after a summer of fighting, he found that each battle had been calculated separately, that his hero's reward came...