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...when things are looking brightest for Mammy's big family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
Plight. The White House seemed a long way from John Farmer's withered little acres but he was hopeful. His corn was gone. His well was dry. His pasture was a tinder box. His cows were hungry. His vegetable patch was a mass of brown weeds. His supply of cash was dangerously low. He already owed the county bank more than he could pay this year or next. Typhoid fever had broken out nearby. John Farmer faced a bad winter...
...ashen remnants of what seemed likely to be the fabulous and diabolical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were unearthed last week near the Dead Sea by the expedition of the Rome Pontifical and Biblical Institute. This startling rumor, tinder to adepts in yellow journalism, was disposed of by the sedate, scrupulous New York Times in three brief paragraphs on an inside page. The headline...
This sunspot may have something to do with the drought which the past fortnight has afflicted U. S. farmers, restricted the water supplies of many communities (TIME, Aug 12), made tinder for forest fires. Sunspots become active in regular 11-year cycles. Although the present cycle was at its top in 1928, its 1929 decline has been little, according to measurements at the special solar observatories in southern California, Chile, South Africa. But although the earth is now getting more sun heat than normal, that is probably not the whole cause of the 1929 drought. More direct causes were...
...have returned gentlemen, from the blackest spot on the continent of America. In that prison colony just sufficient food is served to keep the men strong enough to work tinder the tropical...