Blind 57 Years Yet Built City and a Texas Legend
At eighty three, Gen. A. R. Johnson of Burnet Texas nears a lifetime in public service and enterprise. He lost both eyes in 1864 while fighting for the Confederacy and afterward built Marble Falls, powered by a water plant, plus a school, shoe factory, cotton mill, and a railroad spur. He helped educate six children and remained active in Texas politics and civic work while guiding his town from blindness. Johnson once led raids against the Comanches and earned the nickname Stovepipe Johnson after deceiving Federal forces with a pipe cannon. He tended to war injuries, was captured, later exchanged, and returned to Texas to continue expansion and development efforts.
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Austin
Tex
A. R. Johnson
Burnet
Marble Falls
Texas
Johnson
Kentucky
Butterfield
New York
San Francisco
Forrest
Stovepipe Johnson
Newberg
Ind
Ohio River
Grubbs Cross Roads
Ken
South
Boston Harbor
Lee
Colorado River
Marble Arts
John M. Matzen
Lincoln
Mead
Nebraska
Capitol
Mclxeliie
Capitol Commission
Zehrung
W. Dale Clark
Omaha National Bank
Joseph Hale Johnson
W. R. Johnson
Long Pine
Leslie S. Fields
Omaha
Ruth Ayers
Hayes Center
State Supreme Court
Lower Platte
Lincoln County
Henry Freudenberg
Madison
W. C. Porter
United Presbyterian Church
Burchard
Missouri River
Stella
N. M. M. O. Highway Association
North Platte
Oberlin
Kas
Frontier
Redwillow
Maywood
William Axling
Gothenburg
Japan
Fremont
Schuyler
Ord
St. Paul
Clay Center
Onde
Falls City
Congress
Rushville
B. S. Gillespie
South Dakota
Rushville Syndicate
Lodge Pole
Rush Creek
Platte River
State Bureau of Roads and Bridges
Saunders
Douglas
Yutan
Holt County
Iikhorn
Ewing, Merrick
Polk
Silver Creek
Garden County
State Department of Trade and Commerce
Community Club of
State Capitol Commission
B. G. Goodhue
New York City
McKelvie
Leo B. Stuhr
Stuhr
Franklin County
Bloomington
Franklin
Mike Casey
Fordyce State Bank
Harold Ross
Sioux' City
Fred. Stewart
Japanese Stop DISCARD SANDALS FOR SHOES
Honolulu data show Japan’s population rising thirteen times faster than the nation as women gain influence and curb smoking. Dr. T H Haden, dean at Kwansei Gakuin, spoke at the Pan-American educational conference as Japan’s envoy on social change.
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Honolulu
T. H
Japan
America
England
T. H. Haden
Kwansei Gakuin
Empire
Hunter narrowly escapes elephant trampling in South Africa
J Morewood Dowsett, famed hunter, recounts stalking a large herd in Uganda. After shooting the leader, a bull charged, knocked him down, and rolled him. Dowsett rolled clear, escaped behind the animal, and the elephant fled in the other direction.
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London
J. Morewood Dowsett
South Africa
Uganda
Mr. Dowsett
Japan’s Women Embrace Western Home Life Change
Doctor Haden notes changing Japanese women as Western ideas spread. Women discard sandals for shoes and kimonos evolve with new home life terms. Divorce reform and factory work rise as Japan shifts from agriculture to industry.
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Japan
Doctor Haden
Haden
Denver Operates Parks Outside City Limits
A note indicates Denver runs park facilities located beyond the city boundary. Officials manage land use and services for these areas as part of municipal oversight.
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Denver
Four Women Dine Together In New York Area
Four women whose combined ages total 300 years shared a guinea hen dinner at Bloomingburg in Sullivan county. The group included Mrs Salter eighty one Mrs Evans eighty Mrs France seventy and Mrs Mills seventy nine. The meal prepared by Mrs France featured guinea hen spinach boiled onions cabbage salad apple pie cheese and tea.
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Middletown
N. Y
Bloomingburg
Sullivan County
Salter
Evans
France
Mills
Hawthorne
N. J
Farms Sold West of Gretna and County News Flash
Two large farms west of Gretna in Sarpy county sold at auction for 135 dollars per acre. Other items include injuries from a circular saw accident, major fire damage in Fremont, charity donations from Box Butte county farmers, layoffs at Grand Island Union Pacific shops, a Wakefield corn husking record, and a North Platte to Sutherland electric line project underway.
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Gretna
Sarpy County
Donald Hubbard
Beatrice
Fremont
Box Butte County
Salvation Army
Union Pacific
Grand Island
Wakefield
Harvey Hass
North Platte
Sutherland
Dawson County
Nebraska Cement
Superior
Harry Sick
Hooper
George Long
Herman Wegner
Scribner
Lyman
Nebraska
W. C. Birmingham
Omaha
Henry
D. Burr Jones
Near East Relief
Mr. Jones
Martin Bausch
Leigh
Fort Crook
Bausch
Holt County
Johnson County
Margrave
Fall City
J. T. Margrave
The Cost of Fame as a Jester in Public Life
The piece argues that society rewards laughter and clowning while hindering serious reformers. It cites Spencer Leigh Hughes and others who gained wealth from humor but lost lasting influence, noting Shakespeare Hogarth Bach and Bach as examples of different valued arts and outcomes.
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Rnulph Nevill
Mayfair and
Montmartre
Michael Dune
London Mail
Spencer Leigh Hughes
W. W. Jacobs
Edgar Allan Poe
R. G. Knowles
Royal Geographical Society
Shakespeare
Hogarth
John Sebastian Bach
A Terrier Decorated for Brave Alarm
Peter the terrier of Rev. W. Adams Liverpool received the National Canine Defence League medal after alarming guests during a holiday at Borrowdale. While his owner soothed him, a man named Arnold had fallen 50 feet on the hillside and was pinned by rocks with severe injuries. Mrs. Adams aided the injured man until a doctor arrived four miles away. Peter’s alarm likely saved his life.
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Peter
W. Adams
Liverpool
National Canine Defense League
Borrowdale
Lake District
Mrs Whitney’s Paris Show Draws Greenwich Guessers
A Greenwich village tale centers on Mrs Harry Payne Whitney whose sculpture exhibit has earned praise in Paris and London. While sketching in the country a young farmer watches and finally mutters that it looks better from afar, prompting Mrs Whitney’s witty reply.
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Greenwich Village
Harry Payne Whitney
Paris
London
Armageddon: Megiddo and the Holy Land
The passage locates Armageddon on the Esdraedon plain and recalls ancient battles over Palestine. It cites Egyptian attempts to seize the land, Gideon and Saul defeating foes there, Elijah overturning Baal’s prophets, and a World War II era victory by General Tienby against the Turks in the Holy Land campaign.
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Esdraedon
Christ
Palestine
Megiddo
Gideon
Saul
Elijah
Tienby
Holy Land
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Aids Toomsboro Woman
Toomsboro Georgia woman Mrs C F Phillips reports relief from backache headaches and nervous weakness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She credits the remedy with restoring her ability to work and urges others with similar symptoms to try it. Her letter emphasizes recovery from irregularities and nervous distress attributed to a displaced or deranged system.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Toomsboro
Lydia Pinkham
C.F. Phillips
Green's August Flower Remedy Claims 55 Years of Excellence
The advertisement promotes Green's August Flower as a long established remedy for nervous dyspepsia, sour stomach, constipation, indigestion, and related digestive disorders. It claims fifty five years of successful use in millions of households and notes availability wherever medicines are sold.
Sustenance of the Young Kangaroo
The article explains that young kangaroos in the maternal pouch do not suck milk from the mother’s breast. instead the milk is pumped down their throats by the mother’s muscular action.
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Hirohito
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Tokyo
Sumi-no-miya
Tak
Africa
Big Beast
Downing
Mr. Downsett
Philadelphia
Independence Square
New Methodist Church
Fillmore County
United States Marines
Nebraska University
Ames
Iowa
Charles Reed
Big
Chief Development Company
Gordon
Shurbert
Nujol
Criter Dane
O. D
Alpila Remedies
Arch Street
Watson FE. Coleman
Graaning
D.C
Beatservices
George
American Légion Weekly
Gladstone
Chicago
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