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...when he joined the Army. It was October 1864, the war was almost over-and Albert felt he had to hurry for his share of glory. His father, a New York man, had lost a leg at Shiloh, and afterward had taken his family west to New Janesville, Minn. Albert learned the "rifle art" from a Winnebago Indian named Winneshake, and thus prepared, enlisted in the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery...
Died. James A. Hard, 111, oldest veteran of the Civil War and next-to-last survivor of the Grand Army of the Republic (the last G.A.R. survivor: Albert Woolson, 106, of Duluth, Minn.); in Rochester, N.Y. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
AWOL. In Moorhead, Minn., at the Kiwanis Club's weekly meeting, all members were present except the five-man attendance committee charged with getting out the membership...
...Steamboat Springs, Colo., with leaps of 276 and 289 ft.-plus almost flawless form-Art Tokle of Chicago's Norge Ski' Club won the national ski-jumping championship. And in Ishpeming, Mich., racing through a near blizzard, Norman Oakbig of Bush Lake, Minn, took the North American cross-country (10 mile) championship...
...Paul, Minn, last week, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rose before a farm audience of 3,000 to repeat two points he had been expounding in Washington: 1) price supports should be used only as "insurance against disaster," 2) farmers "should not be placed in the position of working for Government bounty rather than producing for a free market." Back in Washington the next day, Benson let it be known that he does not intend to shove Government supports under sagging cattle prices, because there is no "feasible method" for doing...