Word: steamboated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Founder of the Megiddos was a bearded, astute man named L. (for nothing) T. (for nothing) Nichols, who examined many a religion in his youth, found none that he liked. In 1880 he started one for himself, and preached it through the Midwest. In 1901 he launched the steamboat Megiddo, with 95 followers plied up & down the Mississippi and Ohio making new converts. Later he sold the boat, settled his mission at Rochester, N. Y. Founder Nichols died in 1912. Present pastor of the Megiddo Mission is his sister, 83-year-old Ella Maria Skeels...
...chair, combination stool and walking stick), Jefferson read every application that came in. First patent went to one Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for "making pot and pearl ashes." In those days a patent cost about $4. (Now it is $60 plus legal fees.) John Fitch paid $4.39 for his steamboat patent. The part-time clerk pocketed the fees...