Word: muskingum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl J. Jones, a drum-chested, muscular, aggressive man, turned up in Zanesville, Ohio.* Without much visible financial backing, he went into the coal-mining business, presently owned several mines, including one of the most modern, all-mechanical excavations in the U. S. To transport his coal along the Muskingum River he bought a barge company...
...Zanesville News plant was modern and complete, cost $250,000. With latest photographic and engraving equipment and brand-new unit tubular twin-12 presses, it was capable of printing the News in color throughout. Trucks were ready to deliver it daily and Sunday to every home in Muskingum County. And thorough Earl Jones was prepared to spend money to put it over...
...great diamond-shaped area that begins around Marietta, at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers and which, spreading westward, reaches north to around Red Wing, Minn., south to the Republican River in Kansas and west to the foothills of the Wild Cat Mountains in western Nebraska-throughout this region corn stood from eight to twelve feet high, and the estimate stood at 2,523,092,000 bushels-53% of the world's total...
Died. Fred S. Wallace, 61, editor-publisher of the Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune; by his own hand or the act of an unknown assailant; near Coshocton. He had been missing for three days when campers found his body in the Muskingum River, with baling wire wrapped about the ankles and shoulders, a 4-lb. plowpoint and a small hammer inside the coat, type slugs in the pockets, bruises about the head...