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...From an unpainted shack near Tampa came J. Andrew Tatro, displaying a "biscuit" of "rubber" produced (said he) in jig-time from a mysterious hybrid of two latex-bearing plants, suitable for Florida cultivation. Only J. Andrew and his son Andrew Orvill know the secret...
Year later the straits of his family called him back to Cedar Rapids where, in a 10-by-16-ft. shack built with his own hands, they weathered a winter of near starvation. For seven years, following a spell as a soldier in World War I, he taught art in Iowa public schools, saving his pennies for a trip to Paris, where all U.S. artists thought they...
...city we live in as a kind of demonstration laboratory for elementary economics, civics, science and architecture." In Tulsa, students started and helped carry through a revamping of the city's park system. One Tulsa junior high-school class took over as their own "problem house" a shack on the outskirts of town (just bought by a pair of newlyweds) and helped the couple rebuild, furnish, landscape and budget their home. One of the most Progressive school systems in the study, Tulsa also built two model Progressive high schools, named one for Will Rogers...
Sadakichi Hartmann, onetime "King of Greenwich Village," announced from his desert-edge shack in California that he was writing "what likely will be my last opus." Son of a German father and Japanese mother, hard-playing Eccentric Hartmann was once a crony of Walt Whitman, spent most of his life writing art brochures and unplayable plays. Now 72, he described his final opus: "Theme: 1,000 happy moments in a lifetime-where can they be found-four New World Orders analyzed-which one is your choice...
Prices hit moderate boom levels: $3.50 a night for a bathless room in Kodiak's lone hotel; $20 a month for a tar-paper shack; $65 a month for an unfurnished, one-room, kitchenette and bath apartment in Fairbanks; 10? for laundering a handkerchief; 50? for a bottle of milk in Nome, where there was one lone cow for the entire populace...