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...brown Pennsylvania earth was stirring gently last week and the skunk cabbages were popping up by the brooksides, but the Amish Mennonite farmers of Lancaster County were not made happy by the first touch of spring. Plain-dressed, plain-thinking folk, they were faced with a vexing question before they could begin to cultivate their fields. Amishmen, unlike members of other Mennonite sects, do not sign contracts. An Amishman's word is as good as another's bond. Yet contracts were waiting for them to sign as part of AAA's crop-reduction program...
Sportsmen last night agreed that this achievement has the edge on last spring's skunk posse led by Colonel Apted. While certain biological features made the latter accomplishment more deadly to its perpetrators and spectators, the Colonel had to resort to two fearsome six-shooters before the partially defenceless animal dropped dead at sunset. Mr. Hoeing, on the other hand, might have been a caveman, for he encountered the late rat in truly primeval fashion...
Your magazine "stinks with all the flavors of a putrid skunk...
William Henry Dick of Memphis swept an expert eye up the mighty Mississippi, up all its northern tributaries, up the Wisconsin, the Minnesota, the Skunk, the Turkey, the Rum, the Black, the Zumbro, the Bad Axe, the Sauk. He saw streams swollen, lands saturated by heavy rains, abnormally early snows. If spring rains should be torrential...
Rhode Island, It is almost as unpleasant to be called a skunkhunter as to be called a skunk. By carrying Rhode Island, Democrats hoped to end the State's "rotten borough" system whereby the small towns (nominally Republican) control more seats in the State Senate than populous Providence. In his zeal for this reform one local Democratic candidate referred to the villagers as "skunkhunters." A cry of rage swept the State. Meetings were held to which the villagers came by thousands leading tame skunks, dressed like back woodsmen, intent on making "skunkhunting" a title of honor. Felix Hebert hoped...