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A Salesman Who Got Control Of A Factory: Sherwood Anderson in Elyria, Ohio (Part II of a Series)
I eased my car beneath a railroad overpass, slowed down outside a chain link fence and stopped. A few scattered raindrops fell, and the occasional rubbery grind of the windshield wipers punctuated the engine’s steady purr. Before me loomed the bulk of the BASF chemical factory in Elyria, Ohio. There’s nothing here to indicate this…
Read MoreThe Undeveloped Man: Sherwood Anderson in Elyria, Ohio–Part One of a Series
Thanksgiving Day—November 28, 1912. In St. Louis, Missouri, Holy Cross and St. Louis University square off on the football field, while elsewhere in the city 4,000 pounds of turkey are provided to the city’s poor. Back east in New York City, Governor John Dix pardons Albert Patrick, one of the two men who in 1900…
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