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...built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet ("Mary Had a Little Lamb") ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary's route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell ("To a Wild Rose"); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin...
...family of four. They awarded the grand prize ($2,500) in the first group to a drawing of a modern, flat-roofed home by Hays & Simpson of Cleveland, the grand prize in the second group to a California ranch-type house by Paul Schweikher and Theodore Warren Lamb of Chicago. General Electric plans to turn these drawings and ten other prize-winners over to real estate dealers to build 400 houses, for which G. E. will presumably supply electrical equipment...
...happy as a cuckoo bird. I'm the tiger of the underbrush!" cried he. "I'm terribly bad tempered with bad tempered persons, but a lamb with the lambs, and just with the just...
...takes Back Bay residents to think up peculiar meals, though. Country folks have faith in fresh air and quantity to keep their dogs healthy, but poodle owners in the city devise meals calling for proportions in ounces, with dishes like lamb hearts, "limited milk," haliveroil, and special oven dried crumbs to maintain the morale and health of their pets...
Last week their suspicions of scandal caused uproar in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin whence came Brooks's husbandless clients. Circuit Judge Frederick S. Lamb, sitting at Beulah as a one-man grand jury, summoned Brooks for questioning. Along went his adopted son Edward, a cripple who tended the herd of goats whose milk nourished the children. Along also went the wives of both men, and the orphan girl and two boys whom they were raising. Along, too, went Michigan welfare workers and State policemen who brought the accusations...