Avon greenhouse owner builds a toy locomotive for granddaughters
Avon Leonard Piazza of Piazza Greenhouse on Rt 254 Avon turns ideas into projects for granddaughters Cheryl and Judy Glenn. His latest creation is a gasoline powered train locomotive, 9 feet long and 3 feet wide, seating the girls at 3 mph. He plans more builds including a miniature Model T next winter.
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Avon
Leonard Piazza
Piazza
Rt. 254
Cheryl
Judy Glenn
C & J Railroad
C & J Pony Ranch
Piazza Greenhouse
Charles
South Bend
Ind
Ohio
Robert Glenn
Detroit Rd
Don Millers Scene About Town Lake Laughter Road Trip Tale
Don Millers Scene about town recalls a zany fishing trip with a friend Joe across the Tennessee Kentucky lakes and a Mississippi basin. They survive with a dash fund hoarded in the car and a string of misadventures from a leaky boat and a rifle-toting angling guide to Hot Springs pinball and near-drownings, ending with nine pennies left for fuel and a hopeful memory of another trip.
Water truck driver Mrs Naylor reports dry summer demand
Loretta Naylor of Brighton Township drives a large water truck delivering about 1500 gallons to rural homes dependent on cisterns. She notes April to June were unusually dry with tripled calls, and expects up to 40 loads daily in August as the dry season returns. The Naylors buy water from Wellington Municipal Utilities and manage long days with husband Richard, who works at a Ford plant.
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Wellington
Richard Naylor
Naylors
Ford
Baumhart Road
Brighton
Arghlem
John Fazio
They had a dream By REASONS AND PATRICK
A Los Angeles Times piece from 1971 recalls Tom Bass a Black horse trainer famed for Columbus and Belle Beach. It chronicles his career from slave birth in 1859 Boone County to trainer of world class mounts. Bass declined Queen Victoria invitation and rode before U.S. presidents, earning a Mexico funeral.
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Buffalo Bill Cody
Columbus
Cody
Tom Bass
Bass
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circus
Belle Beach
America
Grover Cleveland
Chicago
Queen Marie of
Romania
Miss Rex
London
Calvin Coolidge
Theodore Roosevelt
McKinney
Taft
William Jennings Bryan
Boone County
Mexico
Little
Dixie
Kansas City
Will Rogers
Pam Bass
Old St. Peter
Tom
Los Angeles Times
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By Nancy Schwarzwalder
Toonerville City
Columbia Road
North Olmsted
Cheryl Ann Glenn
Judith Ann Glenn
Tennessee-Kentucky
Cumberland and
Dale Hollow
Lakes
Mississippi River
Annie Oakley
Joe
Hot Springs
Don Miller
Mountain Home
Western Union
Indiana
the Chronicle Telegram
Norma Jones
Patrick
Main Street
Columbia
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