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...Cooled. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest P. Medley begged police to reroute passenger planes that flew low over his house, complained that wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...
...favored needy sit, dull as cattle, while a coolie ladles their gruel out of a wooden bucket. Many are rheumy-eyed from malnutrition and blink and squint constantly as they slup their food. The sound is like the suction of noisy plumbing. When they are through, they wrap their bowls and chopsticks in cotton rags and go quietly away to wait for another meal...
...walk away cane" equipped with a suction cup to hold the stick vertical while the stroller walks away...
Sirs: Stephen Higgins & wife are slightly behind the times using a rubber suction plunger for digging clams. In July I went clamming with Frank Hall of Avondale, R.I., who has been using this useful article for the past ten years...
Stephen L. Higgins & wife of Sanford plopped calmly out on a Maine tidal flat, began blitzing the bivalves with a common rubber suction plunger (the kind used on a stuffed-up toilet). cIn the time it takes an uninitiated digger to gather several dozen clams, the Higgins had two bushels of them (current price: $4 a bushel...