Weathered Ride to Cypress Hills Cemetery
A driver offers a soaked stranger a lift to Cypress Hills, where the man explains his wife is buried, sharing a quiet, eerie meditation on life and fate amid a thunderstorm and rain. He recalls Martha's long effort to lift him up from the start of their marriage to his modest life as a mill book keeper.
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Cypress Hills
Martha
John J. Gannon
Firestone Champion
Firestone
NBC
Firestone Tire & Rubber
The Build Up by Rube Goldberg
A man prepares to deliver his first speech at a town dinner honoring the mill. Amidst wedding-like nerves and a lively reception, he is not called on to speak, leaving his wife Martha to savor the dramatic build up and the town’s celebration.
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Rube Goldberg
Cilmen
Martha
Clifton Hotel
Longyear
Bank
Charlie Simmons
Clawson
Simmons
Mister Clawson
Jenny Lind Concert Tour Created Greatest Furor
Collier's notes Jenny Lind 1850 to 1852 tour sparked America's furor. The New York Historical Society Lindiana collection shows her name and portrait used as a trade mark on bonnets beds whiskies wallpapers and more across thousands of items.
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America
Jenny Lind
Collier's
New York Historical Society
Painting Rubber Base Floors Steps and Precautions
Rubber base paints resist alkali on cement floors common in cellars. Remove old paint with a remover, wash residue with turpentine, and dry the floor. Etch with muriatic acid diluted one pint per gallon, rinse, and dry before painting. Apply two coats, allow first to dry before second.
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Che Fiction
Tillie
Cloverdale
Jed Miley
Mr. Clawson
Mill
the Coun
Kellogg's
Adam
Augusta
French . Com
Tielr Uy
PALMI
William P. Gannon
Valeria
Iowa
Gannons
Gannon
Shelia Ann Gannon
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
Akron, O
Firestone Champion Ground
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