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Rumours of a radio tower stop Lowell House were laid to rest yesterday when Cecil Roberts of the Maintainance Department said that the workmen were merely repainting and regilding the dome and weather vane...
...scaffolding, which caused the speculations, will be taken down when the job is finished in two or three weeks, he said. The weather vane and the small yellow painted cupola will be gilded while the tower dome will get another coat of blue paint...
...month, artists spared no pains to reproduce the intricate, scaly silhouette of an Indian archer weather vane, the plump tarnished elegance of a cigar store squaw, or the streamlined rush of the rooster carved by a Vermont cabinetmaker for a horse-drawn carrousel at a St. Johnsbury fair...
...early April, at evening feeding, the Kuesters begin to sidle up to these elite pigs and delicately strip their swelling teats. If a drop of milk shows, the sow will probably farrow during the night. So she is rushed into the farrowing barn, which, jauntily topped by a weather vane in the form of a pig, has pens for 16 expectant gilts and sows...
...morning & night, the Kuesters put in an hour or two doing chores-feeding the hogs, feeding, watering and bedding the horses, feeding and watering the 20-odd beef cattle, feeding, watering, bedding and milking the three cows. The farm day is not done until Gus ties back the vane of the windmill, pulls off his overshoes and sets them neatly in a little casement near the back steps, washes (after pumping water in a basin at the kitchen sink), and sits down at the kitchen table to one of his wife's suppers-a county byword for good cooking...