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No less eye-catching than these marvels were some of the new postwar gardening tools and gadgets which were finally being produced in quantity. The fanciest was a four-wheeled, gasoline-driven lawn mower with a unique rotary blade-it worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up...
"An idea what to do to get along without a cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a...
Ed sells almost continually, for the love of it. Last year he traveled some 75,000 miles, calling on stations and sponsors. He made speeches at every other Rotary luncheon he saw (he does a lallapaloosa about a salesman, propped with a worn-out pair of shoes and a doorknob...
Died. Paul Percy Harris, 78, Chicago lawyer who, in 1905, founded the first Rotary Club as a balm for his own loneliness; in Chicago. Harris became the first national, first international, president of Rotary (so named because early meetings were held in rotation at each member's office), lived...
Solid Methodists like their preacher to be a good mixer, but careful where he mixes. While 62.4% want him to be "a popular speaker at the Chamber of Commerce and service clubs, such as Rotary," only half as many approve his making "occasional addresses at labor union meetings," and 22.3...