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...jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...
...Obscene words deleted.-ED. *It has been re-christened Old Orchard Country Club...
...John F. McGill suggested his Napa valley estate, airmailed his invitation and a folio showing panoramic views of the estate, interiors of his residence. Inducements: Six master's bedrooms, five baths, cherry orchard, model farm, $200,000 home, sunken gardens, terraced lawns, fountains of imported marble, 17 rooms, 2,000 acres. Location: Napa Valley, northern California...
Senator James Couzens of Michigan: "My 1,000-acre, $100,000 Wabeek Farms near Orchard Lake, Mich., have always shown a deficit. Whether this is because I, frankly, am 'no farmer' or because U. S. farming is fundamentally unprofitable, I do not know. To decide this point, I turned over Wabeek Farms last week for a five-year term, rent and tax free, to Mark N. Williamson, Michigan 'dirt' farmer, and his brother, Frank H., bookish graduate of Michigan State College and post-graduate of the University of Minnesota. Frank Williamson's statement that...
...peddled Medford rum or flour with the equally clear conscience of the times. Regretfully we leave him at 80, a ruddy-cheeked old man, on a little farm of his own; "the wind has got around to the south," as he returns from a visit to the young orchard...