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Show THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT nmwiiimiiimii WHO WAS Kansas Capitol Building Sold for Taxes The Kansas State Capitol bnlld ing in Topeka, which was sold hen for taxes. The building went foi the proverbial song $4,821.20 wltl the dtp library thrown in for goof WHO? . t V . s 47 9 , - .- " ; !s'' 'V : - T'"v ,v '.:; v Y .. ; '" ' A Scenes and Persons in the Current News I measure. Unpaid special improve went taxes resulted in Shawnet countys bidding in the property. By Louise M. Comstock llllHllllllllllllim-- b BROTHER JONATHAN BACK In Revolutionary days It Brother Jonathan, not Unde Sam, who stood tor all the faults and virtues of this country. Even George Washington, when confronted by a knotty problem of state, was wont to say We will have to see what Brother Jonathan has to say about It" Brother Jonathan was Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut at the time of the Revolution, one of our first great patriots. He was also ancestor of an illustrious line of Trumbulls, including John, artist who in 1786 painted the huge historical pictures In the rotunda of the Capitol, and the modern governor of Connecticut John H. Trumbull. , Of all colonial governors in office at the outbreak of the Revolution, Jonathan Trumbull alone was loyal to the colonies. Throughout the duration of the war his store at Lebanon, Conn was a sort of "war office" where supplies were collected and shipped off to the armies, usually under his own supervision; and in his simple home he Shdtered Washington - and Franklin, Jefferson, Adams,- LaFsyette. It was he who financed Ethan Allens successa. ful expedition against Fort When courage lagged he made speeches whlcL stirred up patriotism and won volunteers, and his state furnished more troops than any other except Massachusetts. Jonathan Trumbull died in 1785, at the age of seventy-five- ; Here Is a Fast Airplane for the Army 1 Probate Judge Henry Horner of Chicago; Democratic nominee for the governorship of Illinois. 2 Dr. Heinrich Bchnee of Germany, Henri Claudel of France; Gen. Frank McCoy at the United Btatea and the earl of Lytton of England, members of the League of Nations commission, inspecting war ruins in Shanghai. 8 Chapel of 8t John In the new Washington cathedral, scene of a great religious service on Ascension day attended by President and Mm Hoover. Ticon-derog- V v' Children of Revolution Meet Mr. Hoover V 'TOM THUMB THUMB; so famous a TOM that his nsme has become synonymous; almost, ter any of This new army observation plane; at Mltchel field, la a Douglass ship powered by a 650 horsepower CVn-nn- those tiny people at whom the world motor, with top speed of 180 miles at 5,000 feet Dip in center section of wing adds greatly to always wonders, and sometimes visibility of both pilot and observer. laughs was a real person. The famous midget was only fourteen years old when, under the exBREAKS OLD RECORD pert management of that famous ' showman, P. T Barnum, he ceased to be mere Charles Heywood Stratton of Bridgeport, Conn, and became Gen. Tom Thumb, symbol of all the midgets who ever graced a circus sideshow. In 1854 Barnum took his find to England where, p the handsome drtarf was present, tt ' ed to Queen Victoria, and to Parla. The trip was a huge finan' Members of the National Society Children of the American Revolution who held their annual ' V cial success. After their return to Washington called at the White House and were received by President Hoover. this country Barnum decided n little v ' v ' , ,' romance would be good publicity v ' yV; v ' TO WED A DU PONT for Tom and Imported into bis com' . Lavinla Warren, pi amp and pany S s' t V pretty, who boasted 82 inches to Toms 86 end weighed 29 pounds. Shortly thereafter, attended by the bride's sister, Minnie Warren, and Commodore Nutt, whom she later married, Lavinla and Tom were united in holy matrimony In an elaborate church ceremony attended by the best society and the most color' ful show people and liberally writv $ ten up In the papers; , , Starting at a salary in keeping , with his size, three dollars a week, ' I ' 'tv f v 4 Tom made a mint of money In the v f , c 1 , i fr show business, eventually lost most V f ' w , of It at poker and died, of apoi plexy, In 1883, after, It Is nid, 20 ' 4- -, ' t t ,V , ' "v s years of happy married life; La, ,7 , t? vinla Thumb later married an ItalV . ian dwarf named Count Primo or Bridge and Tennis Stars Wedded V H -- J-- Xf ,i :y. it it la , First Mackerel for the President s r I;.- - s '.'4 Magi. ' . ' ' 1 4 4 ' , ' . ' ' ltfrvaUw V V to his prototypes in the Bluebeard of our fairy story books was a mild and benevolent man. King Henry VHI ran him a close second in the matter of winning and disposing of wives, forbidden doors and box lids abound in literature, from the myth of Pandora down, and It la quite n Blueprobable that the beard la merely a compilation of many bad men of legend and folk tale all rolled Into one. If credit for inspiring this famous character, however, is to be given nny one man, he was Gllles de Rais, one of Joan of Arcs generals and a marshal of France daring the Fifteenth century, whose villanles make Bluebeard appear a meek and husband. Gllles Inherited a large fortune and political prominence; the first he squandered, the second he disgraced. When bankrupt he turned to alcehmy, sought the favor, so they say, of the devil through black magic, made human sacrifice of Innumerable little boys and girls, and Is said to have been the one to betray Joan of Arc Into the hands of the English. The churph finally convicted him of sorcery and he was burned at the stake for his atrocious cruelties In 1440. The story-boo- k version of Bluebeard first appeared In the famous French collection of I'errault in 1G97. (C 1911. Wcitira Nmnuar Ualaa.) Oswald Jacoby, noted bridge anthorlty, and Mary Zita klcHnle, ranking No. 1 tennis player of Texas, who were married in Dallas after a whirlwind courtship of one week. Memorial to British V BLUEBEARD fca at COMPARED Thiepvial arch-villai- bome-lovln- tri-col- Waterbury, Conn, is engaged marry Pierre & Du Pont of Wilmington, Del, the son of Mr. and Mrs Lamoat Du Pont stCTen Cape May, N. J, exhibits "? UP FOR PRESIDENT " ,e the fresh mackerel, Chilean Volcano in Eruption g r t , ) M 'v i ' v ' r 1Tr ' Jt a. - Ji fc v '4 i ; x ' ST S.S. 4 i j. , ..ju; ,4t Change in Meaning The term Levant" refers to the '7 ,, countries washed by the eastern Mrs Russell William Magna of part of the Mediterranean and its Holyoke; Mass, the new president contiguous waters. It formerly Col. Frank Webb of Son Dispatches from Chile tell of renewed activity of volcanoes m the of the Daughters of the ferred to the Orient or the Kant, Francisco andEldridge Washington, D. GL, is Andes while the people of many towns are American Revolution yet clearing away the ashes i but this now Is obsolete; meaning the Presidential nominee of the Nsr orrecent eruptions. The photograph shows Mt Las Xeguas belching Uonal Farmer-Labo- r party for 1932, forth hot ashes and smote i This striking memorial at Thlepval, near Arras, which the French have erected in memory of those British who died under the .during the World war, will be dedicated by the prince of Wales and President Doumer in June. . Miss Jane Holcomb, daughter of Mr. and Mrs; Frederick Holcomb .of ," |
