Ohio Valley Antique Machinery Show 39th Reunion Featuring Massey Harris Tractors and Fairbanks Morse Gas Engines 
Your best guess? 
The sweeper magnet was used on various military bases around the world to pick up debris on the runway. It would save propellors, jet engines, tires, but most of all, the crew of the airplane. "Mom's Chariot" 
And, of course, the steam engine. No word on the progress made from last year. 
And the collection of Panzers; each one used for a different job. One is set up to mow grass, another roto-tills the garden, another has a blade on the front, another has a plow. Would that there was enough space to have a tractor for each job...
The 'boys' threshing the wheat; then bailing the straw. 
An additional piece of local history is being added to the showgrounds. The ice house was built in 1929. The structure had walls lined with six inches of cork and had a compressor to keep the ice cool. Ralph Wallace would get up every morning at 3 a.m. to buy ice, then sold it out of the ice house. Use of the house was discontinued sometime around World War II. The plans are to give the building a face lift, but ice will not be stored in it. 
The schoolhouse, last year and this year.
Lashes (1859): Ten lashes for playing cards at school and misbehaving to girls. Eight lashes for swearing at school and telling tales out of school. Seven lashes for telling lies. Five lashes for fighting/quarreling at school. Three lashes for boys going to girls play places and for girls going to boys play places. Two of the eight rules for male teachers (1872): Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden to society. Two of the twelve rules for female teachers (1915): You will not marry/keep company with men during the term of your contract. You may not loiter downtown in ice cream stores.
Grandfathers, and possibly Dads, create these monster lawn tractors for their grandchildren to "pull". A long horn steer. Not a bad picture, knowing we were moving in a wagon at the time.
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