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Chamberlain, S. Dak. is a prairie town, pop. 1,300, with a grain elevator and lumberyard. The C. M. St. P. & P. Ry. crosses the muddy Missouri River there. The tiny town contains an Indian School, a hospital, four doctors...
Yehudi (A Jew) Menuhin was nine months old when the family moved to San Francisco and his father started working as a day-laborer in a lumberyard until he proved himself sufficiently well-educated to get a job teaching in a Hebrew school. Moshe Menuhin and his wife liked to go to symphony concerts but there was no one to leave the baby with. One day they decided to take him with them and strangely enough young Yehudi stayed perfectly quiet. Thereafter he attended the concerts regularly, developed a great interest in Louis Persinger who sat in the first violin...
...forehead and big eyes. As a youth he was a harum-scarum, liked to drink whiskey and would sell his shoes for a drop of it. Then one day he agreed to take the pledge-for three months. It lasted for the rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow. At 2 a. m. he would arise, pray until 5 a. m., then go to Dublin...
...Harry Trotter, who had a good job as foreman in Pape's lumberyard, was determined everybody should understand he loved his wife. . . . Coming home from the yard at half past five o'clock Harry smelled a stew cooking as he climbed the stair of the duplex house, a dish he liked, and Vera cooked it with small round new potatoes, oodles of onions, peppers, spices...