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Peter Patterer once put his barnstorming plane down in a Michigan peat bog, was intrigued by its softness, became Peter Patterer the Peatman. Richard Whitney the Broker, intrigued by peat's possibilities, once put his barnstorming cash into a Florida peat company. Most newsworthy of present peat mossers are Charles Silber, a Newark, N. J. attorney, and Giles Price Wetherill, a Philadelphia socialite.* Last week in Cherryneld. Maine, they declared their newly formed American Peat Co. ready to dig for the $16,000,000-per-year U. S. peat trade now monopolized by importers from Sweden and Germany...
...Peat is compressed, decayed vegetation found in bogs. Processed peat is used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
...summer of 1845, on an Irish air long heavy with the smell of dung heaps, peat bogs and the personal reek of an ill-kempt and poverty-ridden citizenry, a new and more awful odor arose. Sulphurous, acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were...
...Senator Burton K. Wheeler over Republican George M. Bourquin, a onetime Federal judge who once remarked: "This court may be in error but it is never in doubt''; in Montana. Republican Senator Warren R. Austin over Democrat Fred C. Martin, after a desperate Administration attempt to re peat the Pennsylvania victory in the land of milk and marble; in Vermont. Senator Robert Marion La Follette, running for the first time as a real Progressive, over Republican and Democratic nonentities; in Wisconsin...
...Wisconsin to New Mexico, from Illinois to Montana. Up soared thermometers in Bartlesville, Okla. (101°), Bismarck. N. Dak. (102°), Manhattan, Kans. (103°), St. Joseph, Mo. (104º St. Paul, Minn. (105°), Huron, S. Dak. (106°), Morris, Ill. (107°), Sac City, Ia. (108°). Peat bog fires ate their way into the city limits of Milwaukee, while townsfolk panted in an all-time high temperature of 103°. At 102°, Chicago missed by less than a degree its all-time top torridity. Flushed and groggy, schoolchildren were sent home in Des Moines and Minneapolis...