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Sage of Potato Hill Waiting for the Democrat
The late Dr. Frank Crane called Ed Howe the Sage of Potato Hill. Howe, born 1854 in Treaty Ind, ran the Here’s Howe weekly column in The Democrat last week. He built the Atchison Globe into a famed paper and is famed for simple plain speech.
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Frank Crane
Edgar Watson Howe
Potato Hill
Ed Howe
Howe
Democrat
Treaty, Ind
United States
Atchison, Kan