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North Platte, Neb...
Last week Farmer Gus Sumnick had important company for mid-day dinner at his 1.200-acre place near Waterloo. Neb. Twenty-eight miles out from Omaha drove no less a person than Franklin Delano Roosevelt, trailed by a hundred automobiles full of family & friends. Several thousand country folk flocked to the up-to-date Sumnick farm for a look at the Democratic nominee for President...
...McCook, Neb. (pop. 6,688) Governor Roosevelt greeted Republican Senator William Norris as "the very perfect gentle knight of American progressive ideals." Declared the Democratic nominee: "Senator Norris, I go along with you because you follow in their footsteps? 'radical' like Jefferson, 'demagog' like Jackson, 'idealist' like Lincoln, 'wild' like Theodore Roosevelt, 'theorist' like Wilson." Replied Nebraska's Senior Senator: "What this country needs is another Roosevelt in the White House...
...Know Him." Waashing-ton's chubby Senator Dill was all set to carry the Roosevelt power issue up & down the Pacific coast. As soon as he finished junketing through Indian reservations, Montana's vociferous Senator Wheeler would, as headquarters expressed it, "be available for a speaking tour." At McCook, Neb. sad-eyed Senator Norris, insurgent Republican, dabbed paint on his home while awaiting a visit from Governor Roosevelt in whose behalf he will later campaign from Ohio to California. In New Orleans curly-headed, loose-jawed, incredible Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long champed impatiently to take to the hustings...
...locomotive-engineer named Augustus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that...