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URDAY MORNING, APRIL 21,Harry Burreson TeachingPoilus Similarly Afflicted toMend Themselves.noNtHttx. April 20 An Amert-ran, with one leg ofr below the knee and the other off above the knee is in chat ge of the French government *school for teaching crippled soldier*how to make artificial limbs here After experimenting with expert*from half a doien eonntrles, Including the be*-? limb-makers of France,i he govern men t has selected Harry Byrreson. formerly or New York and Si, Louis and San Francisco, as themen bcit qualified to organise aoperate the school that will cvettti* t ally provide all men maimed In the war with false members and keep them in tepairBurreson, who was born in Chicago and had hii early education in St. Louis, mas run over by a railroadtrain at the age of twelve years, toeing both leg*. After he wa* able »o jmove about again he started to workIn an artificial leg factory He, worked out the cost of two legs for' himself. After he had earned the legs he began to experiment with them, seeking to Improve them. Hehas obtained several patents for Improved litnbs and Incorporated the Idea* into product* of various concerns by whom he war employed.Hest. Fitted forthe Work. 1He wa* In Parte selling legs for an American firm when the French government sought him out and aakedIt fin f A f u k o f f ho soliCkCil I#
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Ogden Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Sat, Apr 21, 1917
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