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...authentic Americana, detailing what led to or what followed some 30 purchases j of articles in them. A thin thread of narrative holds the episodes of Catalogue together, but most of the book is given over to candid, unlovely but often grimly humorous portraits of the natives-Spike, the mean taxidriver; Shannon, the old postmaster, who is almost the only humane figure in the lot; the unfaithful bride, whose lover is in terror of her husband's shotgun; old Double S. Winston, the banker, who puts down extravagant plans for a sewer system; a rich Indian named Eagle Catoosa...
When the catalogs arrived, the local merchants organized a purchase-at-home-jubilee, soon found they had a different kind of celebration than they had planned. Spike's new baby had died, and he was in a bad, quarrelsome mood. When an unoffending Negro drove his car into Spike's taxi, Spike thrashed him. Eagle Catoosa, in one of his involved courtships, hired Spike to take him to see his girl. The girl was being escorted by Red Currie, who had just received his new Sizzle Pants and thought he was making a good impression. When the girl...
...Worth church to pay the necessary $250 fee, armed himself with a badge reading "Messenger" and for the first time in years was an active member of a Southern Baptist Convention. Full of talk about Socialism and Communism, Messenger Norris was loudest in announcing that he was going to spike plans to have a Fellowship Meeting addressed by Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, No. 1 Japanese Christian (TIME, Dec. 30 et seq.) whom Dr. Norris attempted to bait in Rochester, N. Y. last month. The Southern Baptists easily squelched the Texan. As a demonstration of Baptist solidarity - though neither convention discussed merging...
...epic of U. S. railroad building ended with a mild clink in 1931. In that year Arthur Curtiss James tamped a golden spike into a convenient tie near Bieber, Calif., formally completing 200 miles of new track connecting Great Northern R. R. with his Western Pacific. After that, paralysis descended on what had once bean the lustiest field of U. S. business pioneering. Total mileage of new track laid by all U. S. railroads plummeted from 748 in 1931 to 163 in 1932, collapsed to 24 miles in 1933. In 1934, 76 miles of new track were laid, last year...
...headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete's fatal wound, explained to the foreman that the animal had just dropped dead of natural causes...