Iron Man of The Month

By Goe Jahnestock
Published on March 1, 1968
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Inside Steam Engine Beauty Shop, Son Sylvester chisels dirt from nameplate of rare 13 Hp. Robinson Engine. Here all kinds of engines are ''beautified''.
Inside Steam Engine Beauty Shop, Son Sylvester chisels dirt from nameplate of rare 13 Hp. Robinson Engine. Here all kinds of engines are ''beautified''.
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Old negative that I resurrected from my files shows Charlie Ditmer making some of his famous steam engine apple butter during happier days out on Ditmer farm, east of Hillgrove, Ohio.
Old negative that I resurrected from my files shows Charlie Ditmer making some of his famous steam engine apple butter during happier days out on Ditmer farm, east of Hillgrove, Ohio.
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The theme is ''engines'' - at Greenville's ''Steam Engine Beauty Shoppe''. 1. to r. - cigar chewing Charlie Ditmer, Heath Paulin and Sylvester Ditmer, pres. Darke County Steam Threshers'. From the largest to the smallest, they love 'em all.
The theme is ''engines'' - at Greenville's ''Steam Engine Beauty Shoppe''. 1. to r. - cigar chewing Charlie Ditmer, Heath Paulin and Sylvester Ditmer, pres. Darke County Steam Threshers'. From the largest to the smallest, they love 'em all.

That elusive, overalled vertebrate known more commonly to
devotees of the threshing ring circles as Ye Iron Man can and
oftentimes does wind up as a sort of superman, or titular head of
his own ‘cult’.

Though in the eternal realms of theology there exists such
divine allusions as Wise Men bearing gifts of ‘incense and

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