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Harry Hines Woodring of Topeka, Kans. is a man who loves nice things. As a private citizen, he likes tatting, antiques, and the view from his front porch, with its pleasant shrubbery and small lake. As a politician, he doesn't care to associate with the hoarse, beefy men of the smoke-filled hotel rooms...
Last week a deed was filed in Topeka, giving title to a piece of land 454 ft. wide and 180 ft. deep. The property ran almost up to the Woodring front porch and bisected the small lake. The buyer: Charles Rooney...
Rooney announced that he would build a row of "cheap but durable" houses on the land. The Woodring porch would command a view of their back yards, and little else...
Though Cambridge, Mass, was the home town of three famous colleges (Harvard, Radcliffe, M.I.T.), its public schools were backward. In protest, Harvard's famed Philosopher William Ernest Hocking pulled his children out of them. On the sun porch of his home, in 1914, he and a Harvard colleague founded a school of their own. They and their wives taught and ran it themselves for a few years; but Shady Hill School grew too fast for them. It was then that Philosopher Hocking & Co. went looking for somebody to take over, and found a golden-haired schoolmarm named Katharine Taylor...
Higgledy-Piggledy. In New Castle, Pa., Ray Walker's hen lays an egg on his porch every morning at 8:30, pecks at the door until he comes to pick...