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Tough Tarbell Trivia
10-26-2021, 04:56 AM,
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No idea - wild guess - Dr. William A. Evans?
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10-26-2021, 06:14 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Dr. Theodore Flood, from The Chautauquan?
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10-26-2021, 10:50 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry gentlemen, but neither is correct.

Clue#1-The person under consideration died before knowing that Tarbell would make him famous.

Bonus clue-don't get hung up on the term doctor. Doctor doesn't always mean M.D.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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10-26-2021, 01:29 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
(10-26-2021, 10:50 AM)Rob Wick Wrote: Bonus clue-don't get hung up on the term doctor. Doctor doesn't always mean M.D.

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Was he a professor?
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10-26-2021, 02:28 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Roger,

No he was not a professor.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-26-2021, 04:40 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Was he a religious leader?
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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10-26-2021, 05:54 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
(10-26-2021, 04:40 PM)AussieMick Wrote: Was he a religious leader?

No.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-26-2021, 08:54 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Clue # 2 - In her notes, Tarbell wrote of this person:

“Rarely see a more interesting old face—furrowed on the forehead and from the eyes and under the lids as I never saw a face furrowed.” She described his forehead as a “perfect checker-board” adding that the flesh around his eyes reminded her of a “hill side cut by heavy rains and the gullies dried. The flesh is folded up in wrinkles under the eyes but the cheeks are red and healthy.”

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-27-2021, 01:33 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
The description doesnt seem to match but how about Dr Issachar Zacharie?
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10-27-2021, 01:37 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Was this man an historian?
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10-27-2021, 12:48 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Mike, but that's not it.

Steve, he is not a historian.

Clue#3-Tarbell first interviewed him almost 15 years before writing about him.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-27-2021, 03:36 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Was the person a Catholic bishop?
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10-27-2021, 04:06 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Roger,

He was very religious, but he was not a Catholic bishop.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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10-28-2021, 09:54 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
(10-27-2021, 04:06 PM)Rob Wick Wrote: Roger,

He was very religious, but he was not a Catholic bishop.

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John D Rockefeller?
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10-28-2021, 10:05 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Joe, but that's not it

Clue#4-Tarbell wrote about him but gave him a different name.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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