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...record of Representative Edgar Howard of the Third Nebraska District is as follows : Born: at Osceola, Iowa, Sept. 16, 1858. Start in life: a printer's devil. Career: aged 13, he went to work in a printshop at Glenwood, Iowa. He went to public school, worked his way through Western Collegiate Institute, attended Iowa College of Law. He became a tramp printer, a wandering newswriter, worked for journals throughout the U. S. Last subordinate job: as city editor of the Dayton (Ohio) Herald. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Paisley Burtch of Clarinda, Iowa and settled in Nebraska. She gave...
President Coolidge never went to Marion to dedicate the Memorial. When Herbert Hoover became President, friends of Harding felt that he could and would not refuse to lead the dedicatory ceremony in memory of the man who first put him into the Cabinet, gave him his political start. But President Hoover has been as preoccupied as was his predecessor whenever the Harding Memorial was mentioned. The apparent reluctance of official Washington to honor Harding has stirred resentful mutterings in Ohio. Declared the Dayton Daily News (published by James Middleton Cox, Democratic presidential nominee defeated by Harding...
...west wind almost tore their signal flags away and when Captain Heard and Ocean Pilot Henry Paul saw how the Solent looked they put into Ryde to wait for better weather. Sir Thomas Lipton, 80, still weak from a cold and lumbago, was not able to see the start but felt well enough to give out to the press the usual expressions of his optimistic sportsmanship...
...another. First he worked on Heywood Broun's allegorical Candle Follows His Nose, dropped it, set to work on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene. In November 1929, he shelved that, went into seclusion at his home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto and score for Peter Ibbetson, his second grand opera; that he would not take a vacation until the orchestration was done?a task requiring three more months at least...
Unleashed in an oak grove where truffles (warted, globular fungus growths) are found, they race madly about, start digging furiously under the admiring eyes of their owners. Once the swine discover the fungus, a few inches under the ground, the keeper must be alert and ready, unless he has an unusually fine animal. When keeper spies truffle, he slaps the pig on the snout with a rod, seizes the truffle, rewards the pig with a few acorns...