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blades allowed them to , barbers.the Lion'sMyDendadiS now.
Saturday was a busy day for
avoid being struck by the ....
machine gun bullets.
and I would _
go on other days of the week
for haircuts, because on Sat-
. On June 18, 1923, By Charles Wall urday, a person would have
the first Checker Cab
THE HISTORY CHANNEL
• On June 21, 1788, New
Hampshire becomes the
ninth and last necessary
state to ratify the Con-
stitution of the United
States, thereby making
the document the law of
the land. Massachusetts
had initially opposed the
document as it failed to
reserve undelegated
powers to the states.
• On June 23, 1902,
German automaker
Daimler-Motoren-
Gesellschaft (DMG)
first registers "Mer-
cedes" as a brand name.
The famous Mercedes
symbol, a three-point
star, was registered as a
trademark in 1909.
• On June 24, 1915,
young German fighter
pilot Oswald Boelcke
makes the first opera-
tional flight of the
Fokker Eindecker plane.
The Fokker was equipped
with machine guns that
could fire straight ahead
through the aircraft's
propellers. The precise
timing of the propeller
TOOLS OF THE ORY __
Feed Cutters
It was a common practice during the Territorial era
for livestock feed to be prepared by cutting it into small
pieces. In the Perkins area, this was usually done with
rolls off the line at the I remember in the 1940's fect Circle piston rings. It
Checker Cab Manu- when my dad and l went to the had a picture of a muscular
facturing Company in barbershop in Perkins. We mechanic working on a car
Kalamazoo, Mich. The usually went to the shop on engine. It had the phrase,
shipment stood out as a the west side of Main Street. 'q'ough, but oh so gentle."
major landmark in the I think the shop had three Intheearly 1940's, haircuts
history of the company, barber chairs, but most of the were 25¢, but during and after
whiCh by then employed time only one barber. The the war, the price gradually
some 700 people, barber had a board to put on increased and by 1950, it was
he arm rests for smaller boys. about 50¢.
• O n J u n e 19, 1953, The shop used electric clip- In those years I think mer-
Julius and Ethel Rosen- pers. Shaves and shampoos chants tried to price their
berg, who were convicted were available. For shaves goods and services so that a
of conspiring to pass U.S. the barber used a straight- single coin or combination of
atomic secrets to the edgerazor, coins would pay for a prod-
Soviets, are executed by There was a long mirror uct. In the mind of a young
the electric chair at Sing along the south side of the person, we felt that if anything
Sing Prison in Ossining, shop, so when the haircut cost over a dollar, wecouldn't
N.Y. Both refused to was finished, the client could affordit.
admit any wrongdoing see how it looked. Post cards and peppermint
and proclaimed their There was a short barber's candy were a penny. Ice
innocence right up to the pole on the building just cream cones were a nickel.
time of their deaths, outside the door. It had alter- Hamburgers were a dime
nating white and red stripes and a nickel. Haircuts were
• On June 22, 1964, Dan spiraled around it. aquarter.
Brown, author of the There were two benches Saturday afternoon was
international blockbuster for clients to wait for their a big trading day at Perkins
"The Da Vinci Code" as tumforahaircut. Sometimes and other towns. It was also
well as other best-selling menwhodidn'tneedahaircut a social event. The farm
thrillers, is born in New would come in just to visit, families would come to
Hampshire. Brown's There was a little sign on the town to sell eggs, cream, and
north wall that read, "Under poultry and buy groceries and
new regulations, no credit will supplies.
be allowed." Editor Glenn Eyler orga-
Also, on the wall was a nized a drawing and often a
calendar from an auto parts string band would play. The
company advertising Per- bandstand was located where
hay, cornstalks and sweet novels are known for
sorghum stalks. It was believed involving symbols,
that this practice saved the conspiracies and secret
animals much energy in chewing[I societies. His first novel,
.and digestion, The actual 9| L [L "Digital Fortress," was
advantage, however, was that the published in 1998.
animals wasted less of this
chopped forage and that it was Hinged-knifecutter • On June 20, 1980, in
easier to handle. In some eases, poor a match in Montreal,
quality forage could also be made Roberto Duran out-points
more palatable by chopping it into "Sugar" Ray Leonard to
small pieces, win the World Boxing
Root crops such as mangel-wurzel Council welterweight
beets, rutabagas, turnips, kohlrabi, title. Yet, five months
carrots and parsnips were also grown later in a rematch, with
for succulent
forage duringthis time and less than 30 seconds
left in the eighth round,
mechanical root cutters were
manufactured to process them. Duran looked at the ref-
Although these crops wer¢, more eree and famously uttered .
adapted to cooler and wetter climates, the words "no mas" or
some of them did well the "no more," giving up.
Territory. Turnips alone prevented
widespread hunger among
the Root Cutter . (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc.
homesteaders and their livestock in the winter of 1890-i
1891.
Eventually, the effort and time required to operated
feed cutters made their use uneconomical. It is rare
today to find a surviving example
of any design in this part of the
country. The Farm Museum at the
Oklahoma Territorial Plaza would
be more complete with the
addition of any feed or root cutter.
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to wait a long time because
so many men and boys were
waiting for haircuts. Sundays
and Mondays the barbershop
was closed. It was tradition
for barbers and beauticians to
get Monday off.
About 30 years ago I went
to a gospel singing at First
Assembly of God Church in
Perkins. The pastor's father-
in-law was there with one
of the singing groups. This
gentlemen said, "I have two
sons-in-law. One is a barber
and one is a preacher. One
shaves my head and the other
shaves my soul!"
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