The Ladies Page

By Mae Baber
Published on May 1, 1973
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A model I made of my Father's old water wheel, with all wooden gears and pulley. Courtesy of Lonnie O. Gunter, Sr., 404 Johnstown Road, Beckley, West Virginia 25801.
A model I made of my Father's old water wheel, with all wooden gears and pulley. Courtesy of Lonnie O. Gunter, Sr., 404 Johnstown Road, Beckley, West Virginia 25801.
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The smaller one has a copper boiler 5 inches in diameter and is 20 inches long.
The smaller one has a copper boiler 5 inches in diameter and is 20 inches long.
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Pictured are two steam engine I made. The larger engine has a boiler 12 inches in diameter and is 4 feet long. Courtesy of Lonnie O. Gunter, Sr., 404 Johnstown Road, Beckley, West Virginia 25801.
Pictured are two steam engine I made. The larger engine has a boiler 12 inches in diameter and is 4 feet long. Courtesy of Lonnie O. Gunter, Sr., 404 Johnstown Road, Beckley, West Virginia 25801.
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Ernest Roadhouse of Blythewood, Ontario. Has just finished steaming tobacco beds with his Waterloo Engine in 1971. Courtesy of Louis Forrest, R. R. 1, Staples, Ontario, Canada NOP 2JO.
Ernest Roadhouse of Blythewood, Ontario. Has just finished steaming tobacco beds with his Waterloo Engine in 1971. Courtesy of Louis Forrest, R. R. 1, Staples, Ontario, Canada NOP 2JO.

It is early on the morning of our fortieth wedding anniversary.
How different is the climate and area from where we were forty
years ago this morning. We are in Los Angeles where our eldest son,
his wife, and two daughters are living at present.

When we came back from our honeymoon way back then, it was
sixteen degrees below zero. Here we have just seen a humming bird

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