Iron Man Of The Month

By Joe Fashnestock
Published on May 1, 1970
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IRON-MAN RALPH ARY WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. - A typical sight at the Darke County Threshers in Western Ohio (Greenville), was Grandson Kim Beesecker handling throttle of the little Case Steam Engine, while Grandpa Ralph fills the tiny water wagon. Engin
IRON-MAN RALPH ARY WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED. - A typical sight at the Darke County Threshers in Western Ohio (Greenville), was Grandson Kim Beesecker handling throttle of the little Case Steam Engine, while Grandpa Ralph fills the tiny water wagon. Engin
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GRANDPA-GRANDSON RELATIONSHIP IS ALWAYS BEST WHEN THERE'S A STEAM ENGINE IN IT. One always helped the other - and where the one went, the other went also. Here Kim Beesecker is seen throttling the little Case alongside a big Case at the Darke County Thres
GRANDPA-GRANDSON RELATIONSHIP IS ALWAYS BEST WHEN THERE'S A STEAM ENGINE IN IT. One always helped the other - and where the one went, the other went also. Here Kim Beesecker is seen throttling the little Case alongside a big Case at the Darke County Thres
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IRON-MAN RALPH ARY ALSO GOT IN ON THIS RUBE-GOLDBERGIAN CONTRAPTION. ''Hizzoner'' Clark Davidson drives around the Darke County Threshers grounds comfortably seated astride his ''Comet Doodlebug.'' It's a jewel of a mechanic's play thing utilizes an old e
IRON-MAN RALPH ARY ALSO GOT IN ON THIS RUBE-GOLDBERGIAN CONTRAPTION. ''Hizzoner'' Clark Davidson drives around the Darke County Threshers grounds comfortably seated astride his ''Comet Doodlebug.'' It's a jewel of a mechanic's play thing utilizes an old e

He was a Spark Plug of the Month without peer, and yet his first
love was steam. You could tell it, like when he treated the folks
at the Darke County Steam Threshers to a new kind of ‘tug of
‘War’, between the little Case steam engine model he’d
made years before, and the larger gas tractor with which he’d
won so many tractor-pulls and trophies. Ralph Ary thought it was

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