Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — A Favored Child of Fortune. [ARTICLE]

A Favored Child of Fortune.

A one-armed printer is as much of a curiosity as the armless man who dexterously handles a knife and fork with bis toes. There came to Cincinnati two day? ago such a wonder, and he is now working as a “sub” in the Enquirer office. His name is Harry Rcnrod, lie is 27 years old, and hails from Washington, where he learned the trade on the Republican. Penrod six years age went on a trip out West, and while gone lost his left arm in a railroad accident. Only a short stump, extending but a few inches from the shoulder, remains. Nothing disheartenod by a misfortune that would have rendered most men- helpless, Penrod set, to work to manage the intricacies of Ms craft with one hand, and be succeeded so well that he now sets as big a “string” as the best printer, and he justifies his own matter and does it well. In “setting” type, Penrod places the itick on the case in front of him and then nimbly shoots tliet 'type into place, working very rapidly a’ud with as apparent ease as a man with twe hands. Penrod has worked as a “sub r on all the great ne\vspa|>«trs of the country and makes a competent livelihood. He is the only one-armed prim ter capable of earning a full day’s wages at the case. The several ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church who were recently deposed by the synod on account of the view they held regarding the right of franchise, have all united with the United Presbyterian Church, from which they have received a warm welcome.