Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leader Farms, and Leader Angus cattle have been Grand Champions in the last four Reading fairs. Like most Yorkmen, Guy Leader learned his trade early. "It became my job to assist my mother with her flock of chickens,'' he recalls, "caring for setting hens, making coops from store boxes for the cluck and her little brood when the chicks were hatched, seeing that they were fed and watered and that their heads were greased to kill the head lice when they appeared. At times, I assisted my mother in her efforts to remove tapeworms from their throats...
...Nashville's Cokesbury bookstore started a drive to swap Bible story cartoon books for commercial comics. For every comic book a child brings in, Miss Lilyan Doss, manager of the store, will trade, without charge, any one of the following: Jesus in Jerusalem, The Story of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, John the Baptist and Jesus in Galilee...
Immovable Object. In Santa Monica, Calif., Store Picket Albert H. Yalowitz, 49, was jailed on charges of slugging Customer Michael Adams, 15, despite his plea that Adams "ran into my fist...
Empathy. In North Hollywood, Liquor Store Owner Sidney Ravid reported to police that when he asked a holdup man to be lenient because he was just starting in business, the bandit replied, "I'm just starting in business too," took...
Coated Pill. In Wisconsin Dells, Wis., Charles Van Wie attached flowerpots and clinging vines to the parking meters in front of his curio store, explained that he wanted to make his customers happier as they put their nickels...