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Will Hogan and his wife and two boys were driving to Dickson, Tenn. a pair of young mules; the mules became frightened at the train and ran away with the wagon; Mr. Hogan and his good wife were both thrown out and one of the boys got his head stuck in a ten-gallon can of lard before the mules stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1935 | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Sparkless Sal, first motorized piece of apparatus of the Cambridge fire department, has been retired after 13 years of faithful duty, tominated a month age by a fairly substantial crash with a garbage wagon following a skid on the icy streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sparkless Sal, Victim of Garbage Truck Crash Forced Out by New Scientific Aerial Wonder | 3/8/1935 | See Source »

...with having exposed 54 Nazi spies who have been caught in foreign countries. That the Baron had been exchanged or would soon be exchanged for some of these Nazi spies, few doubted. According to the Warsaw correspondent of London's Daily Express, Baron Sosnowski stepped off a wagon-lit in Warsaw last week, was greeted with caresses by a Polish blonde three days after his German stoogettes were beheaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stoogettes & Neuter | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...table talk was entirely devoted to law and politics. Southwest Missouri was, and is yet in those parts in which the automobile road has not penetrated, a backwoods country with a characteristic backwoods culture. Turkey shoots, country school hoedowns, hunting (possum, squirrel, quail and other small game) and hay wagon parties were sports with which I was familiar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U. S. Scene | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

Studebaker Corp. was not the first motor casualty of Depression but it was by far the biggest. The venerable South Bend, Ind. concern which Clem and Harry Studebaker founded as a wagon works in 1852, was brought low not by the usual affliction of reduced sales, but by a legal snarl over a mid-Depression effort to expand. In 1932 Studebaker purchased White Motor Co. (trucks) only to have the deal blocked by minority White stockholders. Upshot was a receivership. Last week it looked as if Studebaker would be both the first motor maker to shuffle off its financial troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Studebaker Up & Out | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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