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On our way home from our Wilson River photoshoot, Brian, My Flickr Buddy, showed me where the buffalo farm is and this wetland.... In the spring, I think I'll try for some shots at this location....
Pedestrian underpass near Todaiji, Nara
Noboriooji chika hodou
"'Noboriooji underground sidewalk"
"Noboriooji" (登大路) is the name of the neighborhood. By coincidence, the kanji in this name have alternate readings that could be read to be the same pronunciation as the nearby temple named Todaiji ( 東大寺).
I thought this sign was interesting because of the graffiti on it, it was taken in the cemetary, yes I am the Countess LOL.
This sign once advertised Siegfried and Roy. I saw Siegfried and Roy at the Frontier in 1984, long before they moved to the Mirage, long before the Mirage was even built. Soon, it will be gone like so many of the classic old casinos that gave Las Vegas its character--the Sands, the Desert Inn, the Landmark, and now the Frontier.
Just compare the meaning on different languages. For those of you who have difficulties with Russian I will translate-upper part of sign containing a phrase in Russian "Here is NO beer"Lower part in German have a straight meaning - Forbidden! =)
Sign for Hall at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
A native son of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, Channel Pickering Townsley removed to Missouri at an early age, and as an adolescent sought his business and political fortunes in the county of Pettis.
A one-term member of the Missouri State Senate, Townsley later became a district court judge in Missouri before removing to Barton County, Kansas, where he found further prominence as a newspaper publisher.
Channel P. Townsley was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania on February 14, 1833, one of several children born to Channel Pickering and Mary Griffin Townsley. The Townsley family left the confines of Huntingdon and resettled in Boonville, Missouri, where Channel Sr. engaged in the manufacture of carriages.
The Biographical History of Barton County, Kansas (which gives a decent overview of the Townsley family) notes that Channel Sr. was bitten by the gold rush bug in the early 1850s and migrated to California. Here he became acquainted with Asian natives who were conducting trade in San Francisco. Channel Sr. is later mentioned as visiting China, where he died sometime in 1856.
Channel P. Townsley, the subject of the profile, received his education in Boonville at the Kemper Institute, while also learning the carriage building trade at his father's shop. In the early 1850s, Townsley began pursuing a career in law and was eventually admitted to the bar in Pettis County. Soon afterward he established a law office in Georgetown, Missouri and in the late 185os became city attorney for Georgetown, serving in this capacity until 1861.
Townsley put his law practice on hold in 1861, signing on for service in the Civil War. He joined the 40th Regiment of the Missouri State Militia. He served throughout the war, seeing action at Wilson's Creek, and eventually reached the rank of captain.
Townsley was mustered out of service at the war's conclusion and returned to practicing law in Pettis County. In December 1865 Townsley married Laura Moses (1848-1915), with whom he would have ten children, including Channel P. (1867-1921), Florence Evelyn (born 1869), Laura Emma (1870-1874), Theodora Alice (died aged three months in 1872), Jessie Stuart (died aged five months in 1874), George Leopold (died aged five months in 1877), Edward Moses (died aged seven months in 1879), William Lawrence (born 1881), Charles Reuben Francis (born 1884) and Laura (born 1891).
Two of Townsley's sons went on to distinction in their own right, with Channel P. becoming a noted American artist while William Lawrence became the editor of the Great Bend Tribune.
[Townsley's younger daughter Laura Mary Townsley (1891-1956) distinguished herself as a singer from an early age. She toured extensively throughout the nation and starred in Broadwy productions) before breaking into radio as a singer with her own program. She married the composer and Hollywood figure Leith Stevens and lived with him in Beverly Hills. Her stage name was Mary McCoy. Arthritis forced her to retire from the stage.]
In 1866 Channel Townsley was elected as attorney for Pettis County and in the following year won a seat in the Missouri State Senate as a Republican. His two-year stint in the senate saw Townsley serve on the committee on the penitentiary, and a roster from that legislative session (bearing his name) is shown below.
Shortly after his Senate term concluded in 1869 Townsley was elected as a judge for Missouri's Fifth Judicial District, serving on the bench for six years.
In 1875 he removed from Missouri to Barton County, Kansas, and shortly after his arrival established a law practice in the town of Great Bend.
In 1876 Townsley switched his attention from public service to publishing, becoming the founder of the Inland Tribune. The Biographical History of Barton County notes that the paper "pertained to the interests of the Republican party and the farming community" and it received "a wide circulation throughout the Arkansas Valley, where its influence was widely felt."
Townsley's paper underwent a name change in the early 1880s, switching to the Great Bend Tribune. One can also note that the Tribune is still in existence today, nearly 140 years after its establishment. [The Tribune is still in existence in 2024, 148 years after Townsley founded it.]
The remainder of Townsley's life saw him become a figure of distinction throughout Barton County, being acknowledged as "unswerving in his fidelity to the people, honest in his beliefs and politically often took a stand foreign to the desire of party bosses, but which in the end proved him right."
Townsley died in Great Bend at age 74 on August 4, 1907, "after a period of three years of suffering from a nervous breakdown." He was interred at the Great Bend Cemetery and was survived by his wife Laura, who died in 1915 at age 67.
The rare portrait of Mr. Townsley shown above (and very likely the only one to be found online) was featured in the earlier mentioned Biographical History of Barton County, originally published in 1912.
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I finally found a McCain yard sign in Oklahoma City...in front of the state Republican Party headquarters! It amazes me to see in such a conservative corner of the country, how Obama signs vastly outnumber McCain signs...I literally have not seen ANY McCain yard signs, except for this one in front of party headquarters.
O' Bodega sign, I know you've braved the elements for years where you once lived.
If I could, I'd take you, and hang you around the windows outside my apartment.
I hope you will be happy wherever you are off to.
Neon sign for the Brookside Motel on East Main St. in the Bexley/Whitehall area - a suburb of Columbus, Ohio.
Sign with an elephant for the Golden Triangle, an antiques shop, on North Clark Street in the River North area of Chicago, Illinois.
Tenuous Link: Pachyderm.
Vintage sign for Hines Motel, on US 25 in Richmond KY - Sept 2011. The motel is still active but seems to be in decline. I'm not sure if this is an original sign or a reproduction.
Sign on Big Rock Amusements Fire Ball Ride. My wife and I visited the Robeson Regional Agricultural Fair on Saturday.
This old sign was at the back of the parking lot for the Dairy Queen in Newberg. A new sign was closer to the highway.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie today signed seven bills related to agriculture, a central component of the state’s economic and environmental sustainability.
“Part of Hawaii’s history and way of life, our agriculture industry keeps money in the local economy and supports thriving rural communities,” Gov. Abercrombie said. “These bills are important to combat harmful pests and invasive species, promote urban gardening, and expand the agriculture industry through programs that support farmers while educating and encouraging youth in pursuing agricultural careers.”
HB353 (Relating to Agriculture) appropriates $550,000 over the fiscal biennium to combat the coffee berry borer, a small beetle harmful to coffee crops worldwide that has infested coffee crops in the Kona and South Kona regions.
HB1263 (Relating to Irrigation) appropriates $75,000 for the East Kauai Irrigation System and $45,000 for the Peekauai Ditch Irrigation System (also known as the Menehune Ditch).
SB593 (Relating to Agriculture) expands livestock feed subsidies to include milking goats, goats raised for meat, sheep, lambs, fish, and crustaceans; and appropriates $1.5 million to the state Department of Agriculture for livestock feed subsidies and the Livestock Revitalization Program.
SB993 (Relating to Agricultural Loans) expands the state’s Agricultural Loan Program by adding farm innovation loan programs and expanding the definition of a new farmer.
HB560 (Relating to Affordable Housing Urban Gardening) authorizes the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) and the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) to develop programs that provide incentives for the development of housing projects that incorporate urban gardening programs.
SB586 (Relating to Agricultural Building Permits) provides certain building code and permit exemptions for nonresidential buildings and structures, including indigenous Hawaiian hale, on commercial farms and ranches located outside the urban district.
SB757 (Relating to Agriculture) appropriates $75,000 to the state Department of Education for the Future Farmers of America to educate and support youth in agricultural careers.