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Show YANKEE INGENUITY NOT DEAD. Ample Proof of Its Possession In State of Connecticut. William a. Ward, a merchant, recently re-cently hnd a stove, In which a cool fire was burning, moved with other goods from his old homo, on Piatt's Hill, to his present apartment. He did net want the trouble of making a new fire, thereby further exemplifying his Yankeo ingenuity. While driving through North Hartland, a farming village 13 miles distant fromero, bo stopped nt the homo of E. J. Barnes to get warm. He said ho sold pianos, nnd Mr." Barnes became interested. Flnnlly Mr. Barnes said ho wanted to hoar tho tone of tho Instrument beforo ho mado a bargain. Stopp'-.g to tho telephone, Word called up his storo here, had a $350 instrument rolled up close to the telephone transmitter nnd then ordered a saleswoman, Hiss Elizabeth Eliz-abeth Harnett, to piny a few selections, selec-tions, which sho did. Tho music ovor the wire cnthralleld tho family, tho deal was closed and tho piano was shipped to the Barnes farm. Wlnsted (Conn.) Cor. New York World. |