Word: piqua
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...Piqua, Ohio, knew about the Mills boys when they were ragamuffins drumming up trade for their father's barbershop. They had no money to buy instruments so they learned to ape them. The family moved to Bellefontaine, 30 miles away. John, the oldest, got a job in a greenhouse. Harry, the fattest, became a bootblack. Herbert, the slickest, turned hod-carrier. Young Don, 17 now, was lazy...
...souls. To their proposal Dr. Warren H. Denison of Dayton, executive secretary of the General Christian Convention, who attended the Congregational council as corresponding member, gave hearty approbation. Amid cheers, he expressed belief that the body he represented would approve the merger at its meeting in Piqua, Ohio, in October. If it is completed, the consolidation will be the first ever entered into in the U. S. between two distinct and previously unconnected sects...
Meteor. Most of the show's visitors halted their inspection tour at the exhibit of the Meteor Motor Car Co. of Piqua, Ohio, to look at the single Meteor model on exhibit. Persons acquainted with the Meteor Co., and with its president, Mau rice Wolfe, might have expected to see a hearse rather than a motor boat, for the Meteor Motor Car Co. is best known for its long production of medium-priced hearses, or, as they are known in mortuary circles, funeral cars...