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...arranged to have a trader's hired hand take her home with him. The hired hand was husky, hard-drinking Tom Lincoln. When the trader's wife objected to having an unmarried expectant mother under her roof, the trader gave Tom $15, a mare and a mule, to take Nancy away and marry her. After a brawl over the fee, the marriage was performed on June 12, 1806. Judge Alley is not positive of Abe's birthplace or the date. He strongly suspects the child saw the marriage ceremony...
Unbelievers who do not see the show may doubt that Heaven's closing sequence (Pastor Spence playing The Church's One Foundation on his new church's new carillon for the hymning townfolk in the street below) has the kick of a Missouri mule...
Travelling by car as far as the road went, then by a rickety mountain railroad, and finally by mule, Robert H. Bishop '38, Andrew J. Kauffman '43, and William F. Jenks '32 in company with three other non-Harvard friends reached the base of Huangoruncho and began a laborious climb up the southeast ridge...
...Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went through muddy, snake-infested jungle strips along the coast...
...Arkansas field was opened in 1906 by a guide named John Huddleston, who found a 2½-carat diamond washed out by rain from a volcanic crater which he had bought (giving a mule as down payment) for farming. Huddleston sold his land to Arkansas Diamond Corp. for $36,000, spent the money in a hurry, is now an old-age pensioner. At that he did better than his successors. Investors in Arkansas Diamond Corp.* and a small competitor that shares the field have sunk several hundred thousand dollars in equipment and operations. Out of the mines thus far have...