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AS I SAW IT CHAPTER 31

By Rolland E.

Maxwell, Route 4, Huntington, Indiana 46750

As I sit here writing this November 11, 1976, I well remember that date in 1918. We were painting a new corn crib that was just finished and we heard whistles and church bells ringing in the city four miles away. Our mother came out and said the Armistice had been signed and World War I was over. The press made a big issue that this war ended all wars and would make the world safe for democracy forever. Well it didn't, because there has been continuous war some place in the world ever since.

Up to 1905 The International Harvester had not yet made a tractor. The Ohio Tractor of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, was making a chassis, frame and wheels for sale. Anyone could mount an engine on it and have a tractor. In 1906 I.H.C. got them to build a tractor using their Famous gasoline engine for power. They were made in 10, 12, and 15 HP s...

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