The Niemuth
Family - Newspaper Articles
-- George
Franz Niemoth --
- Time To Put On Shoes
Hall County Farmer Barefoot Much of the Year
- GRAND ISLAND. (UP). George Niemoth,
46, farmer, decided Friday it was just about cold enough for
- him to start wearing shoes again.
- Niemoth began going barefoot five
years ago when he discovered that it was a remedy for a corn.
In the
- early spring he takes his footwear
off, and leaves it off until late in the fall, when the "usual
fierce winters" are too much for him.
- "White frost doesn't bother
me, but I can't take it in the heavy snow," he said. "I
got rid of my corns
- entirely and it really feels good
in the summer. The only time it hurts my feet is when I walk
in deep dust. That comes up between my toes and hurts them,
but the bottom of my feet are tough and hardened. I can strike
a match on my foot with no trouble at all. When I throw a cigaret
[sic] away I merely step on it to put it out."
- Niemoth goes thrashing and shucks
his corn without shoes. Last December during a light snow he
sawed
- wood, standing on a small pile of
sawdust.
- "But when I have my fun is
the summer, when I go to town without my shoes. A lot of people
there kid
- me about it and wonder how I can
stand the hot pavement and melted tar streets. I guess I just
got used to it."
-
- [Source: Nebraska State Journal,
Saturday, December 23, 1939, p. 2, col. 6]
- Hot Weather Story.
- GRAND ISLAND. (AP). -- Friends of
Gene Niemoth, operator of a farm oil truck route, are used to
his
- shoeless appearance. He goes barefoot
summer and winter. But they still wince when he drops a cigaret
[sic] and stomps out the hot ashes.
-
- [Note that the Associated Press
(AP) picked up the story originally from the Nebraska State Journal.
But, when the Nebraska State Journal ran the AP's version of
the story, they didn't notice it was originally their article
and mistakenly changed George's name to Gene (or perhaps they
knew it was their story, and that his name was George, and changed
it to make it seem "new" ... who knows...)]
-
- [Source: Nebraska State Journal,
Friday, June 28, 1940, p. 6, cols. 6-7]
- Hot Foot.
- Grand Island, Neb. (AP) -- Friends
of George Niemoth are used to his shoeless appearance. He goes
- barefooted summer and winter.
- But they still wince when he drops
a cigaret [sic] and stomps out the hot ashes.
-
- [Source: The Daily Times-News,
Thursday, July 11, 1940, p. ?, col. 6]
[Source: The Kingsport (Tennessee) Times, Monday, July 1, 1940,
p. 2, col. 4]
[Source: The Kingston (New York) Daily Freeman, Monday, July
1, 1940, p. 14, col. 1]
- George Niemoth of Grand Island,
Nebr., who goes barefooted summer and winter, causes spectators
to
- wince when they see him drop a cigarette
and stomp out the ashes.
-
- [Source: The Nashua (Iowa) Reporter,
Wednesday, January 1, 1941, p. 5, col. 4]
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