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National Geographic : 1936 Sep
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INDIANA JOURNEY Mill, restored by the State. With a low rumble that shakes the whole mill, a big wheel gives power to grind corn and saw lumber. An apothe cary's shop, set with the same old bottles, books, scales, and furni ture used a cen tury ago; the old tavern, with crane and ket tles; the general store-all are here. In the mill are shown primi tive, home-made things, from bear traps and ox yokes to wooden dishes and crude farm imple ments. One hour here is a graphic lesson in pioneer Hoosier culture. North we rode, into a scarified and mournful land-between Bedford and Bloomington from whence comes nearly all our cut building stone (page 297). Fly over, and you look down upon a wounded world of deep, rectangular holes, from which oolitic limestone is cut. rnotograpn oy w llaraK. Luiver GEORGE ADE, BELOVED HOOSIER AUTHOR AND PLAYWRIGHT, WITH HIS BOSTON TERRIER, "SPRY" About 35 years ago, Ade's first "Fables in Slang" gained such popularity as to influence the speech of college students all over America. Editors everywhere were swamped with offerings from young writers trying to imitate his style. In the long list of Ade's books and plays, none are better known than "The Sultan of Sulu," "The County Chairman," "The College Widow," and "Father and the Boys." Here he is at work in his home at Hazelden Farm, near Brook, Indiana. Over the tumbled land are scattered blocks and broken stones, as if archeologists had dug up buried cities, or ancient workers had cut rocks for pyra mids and Chinese walls. In scores of structures in the United States, from the Empire State Building in New York to the Capitol of North Dakota, this stone has been used. It also has been employed in construction of many frater- nity houses in Bloomington and in the newer State University buildings there. "I will study and get ready and then maybe the chance will come." You see these words of Lincoln inscribed on the wall of the bookshop in Union House, on the campus. Bloomington shows much vitality. It makes trainloads of bedroom furniture. Four home-town boys rounded up a lot of 275
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