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Bailey Ford Bridge

Over the Salt River 8.5 miles southeast of New London Missouri S11 T55N R4W 230' 10-panel Pennsylvania Through Truss bridge with a Pratt Pony Truss and steel stringer approaches built by Stupp Bridge & Iron Company of St. Louis in 1910. Re-erection and Maintenance Covenants per Secretary of Interior Guidelines. Price: $1.00 Length: 320' overall Width: 16'

Contact: MECO Engineering, Inc., (573) 893-5558.


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Les 5 Points d' une architecture nouvelle, which Le Corbusier formulated in 1926 included (1) the pilotis elevating the mass off the ground, (2) the free plan, achieved through the separation of the load-bearing columns from the walls subdividing the space, (3) the free facade, the corollary of the free plan in the vertical plane, (4) the long horizontal sliding window and finally (5) the roof garden, restoring, supposedly, the area of ground covered by the house.


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Jazz Horn comb and paper, kazoo

"By far the most important recordings ever made featuring the kazoo are those made in the 1920s and 30s by the Mound City Blue Blowers. Featured in the 1920s recordings are Jack Bland on Banjo, Dick Slevin on Kazoo and Red McKenzie on vocals and comb and paper (which he called "Blue Blowing") They were a sensation and supposedly sold a million records. Later, McKenzie "Blue Blowing" was featured on records with Coleman Hawkins, Bunny Berigan Eddie Condon and scores of others. The Classics label (from Europe, but available widely) just released some mid-thirties Blue Blowers that are amazing, and McKenzie solos stand up in their own way to those by Berigan and the rest. In the book Selections from the Gutter, a compilation of articles from the mid century magazine The Jazz Record, includes an interview with Bland titles "The Kazoo Comes On." In the book "Lost Chords author Dick Sudhalter calls McKenzie a legitimate hot jazz stylist on his homemade kazoo."


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Blind Thomas Wiggins


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