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CONTENTS: Editorial; They Say; Fear, Dr James J Walsh; Safe Props for Skyscrapers; Making Gavels Is His Hobby; Rube Goldberg Talks on Inventions; Science Traces Our Monkey Ancestry - #4, 'The Story of Man + His World,' E E Free + William K Gregory; New Auto Refrigerator; Diving Sled to Salvage Treasures; Man's Losing War With Insects; Paddle Tennis, Newest Game; Leaf-Shaped Spruce for Loudspeaker; Corners of US Unexplored; Compressed Air Feeds Corn to Hogs; Models Show US Industries; Poison - We All Eat It; Triple Hoist Lifts Limber Loads; Will Radium Restore Youth?; Science Duplicates Costly Gems; Secrets of Baseball, by Col T L Huston; How Science Identifies Babies; Streetcars Haul Truck Trailers; Housewives Can Save Gas in Cooking; Happiness in Hobbies; Keep Fit! Exercise!; How Much Do You Know?; World's Smallest Typewriter; Movies Stage Most Vivid Storm; Speeding Up Parcel Post; Hollywood Has Egyptian Film Temple; Singing to Cure Deafness; Automatic Copyholder; Oil from Shale Mined by Steam; Models Substituted for Blueprints; A New Wide Ditch Cutter; Fragile Moth Is World Wanderer; Leather Armor Protects Sand Blaster; Reading Printed Words in Charred Paper; How Numerals Were Evolved; Rotary Telephone Book Finds Numbers; Electric Scrubber Polishes Desks; Burglar Alarm Under Door; Automatic Bowling Pin Boy; Fountain Pens + Pencil in One; Midget Engine Pulls Seven; New Tool Trues Crankpin; Rural Districts Mapped by Clock; Harnessing a Geyser's Steam; Mirrors Guard Vault; Exhaust Operates Auto Air Brakes; New Snake Tread Conquers Bumps; World's Largest Lump of Coal; Nation-Wide War on Diphtheria; Fireproof Gasoline Truck; Typewriter Built in Units; Rotor Winding of Single Copper Sheet; Machine Fumigates Books; Where Dust Comes From; Yucatan - Egypt's Rival; Bank Has Armored Limousine; Solderless Faucet for Oilcan; Tar Paper 'Nailed' by Vulcanizer; Hand Tool Tests Hardness of Metal; Homespun Astronomy, and 23 more articles I cannot squeeze into this space. ... Read more

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In 1985 I found myself in a Fort Worth hospital after an insecticide accident. Although Homesteaders and Sheepherders is seventh in ten novels of La Plata County Series,this was the first written. Son Wilkerson grew up on a sheep ranch much like the one I started out on in La Plata County, Colorado. A descendant of sea captain James Butler, Son has no idea of his famous ancestor until he starts writing after an accident in the Korean War. This story of a young boy will tug at your heart. Son Wilkerson is the son of D.H. Wilkerson, son of Mississippi Woman, who brought his sick brother to La Plata County Colorado to cure him of tuberculosis.
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