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The IR wrote about updates to the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, Thermop Spark, WY Business Council & Thermop Main Street all whom are working on pro- grams to promote Thermopolis-with the result of getting grants for flowerbeds, lighting & a sign? Good start. But I have a suggestion. Thermopolis needs a THEME to make the lighting & signs more worthwhile. People come here for the WATER. Every new development/mural/billboard/remodel job/ or online presence we carry out should focus on fun with water, & a smattering of dinosaurs as well....
The IR printed an ad(?) in a box with Abraham Lincoln’s picture listing “The 10 cannots…”. This is false. Abraham Lincoln never said these words. But just over 50 years after Lincoln died, in 1916, The Rev. William John Henry Boetcker, a Presbyterian minister and notable public speaker, did. He made a booklet of ‘nuggets’ that came from his lectures, of which these axioms of misquotations are derived. Author Ralph Keyes has said that “Famous quotes need famous mouths”, hence how over the years these words were mistakenly attributed to L...
