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Martin Luther's father, Hans Luther (Lyder, Luder, Ludher) was a peasant from Möhra Township, Thuringia. After his marriage he settled in Mansfeld, like many another peasant, attracted by the prospect of work in the mines there. Thrifty, he leased first one, then three small furnaces for smelting iron ore. He prospered. His son, Martin, went to the Mansfeld village school, later to St. George's School at Eisenach and the University of Erfurt, then Germany's most famed. To suggest that Martin Luther was ignorant would be absurd, but to deny that...
...Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners who live there pay a nominal price for the heat that is piped to their shacks and frame houses from a municipal heating plant. Their children go to high school...
...centuries make a long time. Few U. S. communities are so old. In one tenth that time, many a U. S. community has changed entirely-the German and Swedish farmers of a Wisconsin county into jitney-riding city stenographers and factory hands; the Italian truck-gardeners of an Ohio township into the proprietors of a bootlegging "Little Italy." Americanization crusades and Progress have made racial slag, temporarily, of much that was pure foreign metal in the North. In the South and Far West, what remains of the Spanish scarcely suffices to fill the realty booklets...
Died. William Cameron Sproul, 57, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Pennsylvania, Candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920 and long a leader in Republican politics; at Nether Providence Township near Chester, Pa. Successively farm boy, newspaper owner, manufacturer, politician, he was known as the "father of good roads in Pennsylvania." His favorite poem, "Crossing the Bar" by Tennyson, was recited at the funeral attended by leading Pennsylvanians...
...Recent Attempts in Administrative Reorganization--the Country Town, Township and Administrative Area." Professor Sly, Sever...