- 9 — THURSDAY, MAY 17, In Tunlzhannocl: io The weathervanes took a variety of forms from simple arrows swaying with the winds, to giant roosters, racing horses, eagles, cows and sheep-rotating se- dately to the north, south, east and west. So rare have they become that they are seldom seen unless there might be one or two in the dim antique shopsthat stretch along several blocks of quaint old Pine street in Philadelphia. But you really don’t have to go to Philadelphia or anywhere else, for that matter, if you’d like to see one of the greatest collections of bells, cigar store Indians, and weathervanes in America! They have found their happy hunting ground in two pine-paneled rooms in what might have been a garage behind a modest stone home opposite the Wyo- ming County Jail on Slocum Street in Tunkhannock. They make up the lifetime collection of Floyd Titman, a Wyoming County boy who went to New York City to make his fortune in the automobile busi- ness —and wound up spending his leisure hours in the antique shops that lined Third Avenue. His forebears were among the earliest settlers inthe elm-shaded town that has been called the “Pearl of the Susquehanna” since the days when Frances Slo- cum spent one of the first nights of her abduction in a house at the corner of Slocum and Tioga streets. It is fitting that one of America’s greatest. collections of cigar store Indians is now gathered on that street. (Continued on Page 10-T) PIGEON x RE
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