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Amid a century of activity, the city recounted its own Horatio Alger success stories:German immigrant H. P. Lau delivered fruit from a small 10th and 0 stand with a handcart . . . J. E. Miller, once a S9-a-week clerk . . . C. J. Guenzei’s start by blacking stoves . . . R. M. Joyce bummed his way into town hidden under mail sacks . . . Grainger Brothers* original small fruit stand . . . Charles Olson, the stone mason from Sweden who arrived with 75 cents in his pocket . . . George Abel borrowed to get his first con-j crete job tools . . . Morris Freshman a Beatrice Sun reporter to a railroad and insurance president . . « S. B. Yates was a railroad telegrapher . . . George and Mark Woods sold real estate even as minors and ended up owning a private railroad car . . . William F. Hoppe a yard man in the lumber yard he would buy from owner R. M. •: Tidball . . . J. C. Seacrest. a printer’s devil interested in J newspapering rather than Uncle Joe Winger’s store . . .Ervin Peterson a carpenter working out of his own base-'■* ment . . , H. E. Sidles in a bicycle shop . . . the 3
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Lincoln Evening Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Apr 26, 1959
Page 66
Full Page
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Jamie T.
USA 16 Aug 2016
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