My Mother's Dad was 17 when he and a cousin decided to disappear from a town celebration and hop a train headed for Indianapolis, about 30 miles away. Their plan was to enlist in the Army, as the Spanish-American War had recently begun. The Army recruiter turned them down as being under-age, and told them their parents would have to sign the papers. After spending the night in the loft of a livery stable, they each paid a barber 25 cents to forge their parents' names, and they were inducted into the Army. They bothered to write their parents and tell them where they were after about a week of basic training in Colorado. Then they went by train to San Francisco, and were shipped to the Phillipines for the duration of the war. In a time when most people were born and died within a few miles of one place, my Grandfather had experiences that gave him some idea of just how big the world really was.
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Today's Featured Article - Tractor Profile: Oliver 70 Row Crop - by Staff. The Oliver 70 was part of the "Fleetline Series" and was manufacturered from 1937 to 1948. The row-crop configuration could have either dual or single front wheels. The Oliver 70 was also offered in the standard, orchard and industrial configurations. The tractors were sold in Canada. An early advertisement states "Power when you want it - power when you need it - power to help put in crops when field conditions are right and time and help are limited. That's the power you'll find in an Oliv
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