Malon Burget was born in Indiana in 1870 to Frank and Margaret Burget. The following year, they arrived in Topeka where Malon's education was received at the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe as he was deaf and mute.
Every day for five years, 1906-1911, Burget sent a letter to the Topeka State Journal with a predication. Despite being deaf and mute, Burget and many other Topekans considered him a prognosticator. He would make predictions on sports, elections, and the weather. His biggest predications being that J.B. Billard would win the mayoral election in 1910 (he would and would serve until 1913), the Athletics would win the 1911 World Series (The Philadelphia Athletics would defeat the New York Giants four games to two), and that the opening day of the state fair would be a beautiful day despite local weather people saying it would be rainy (it was a clear and beautiful day).
Burget was a good friend of New York Giant and fellow classmate Luther Taylor and was a well-respected citizen of Topeka. For employment, Burget typically took odd jobs around the city and was employed for a while at the city street department and the AT&SF Railway.
Burget died of an illness at a local hospital in 1924 and was buried, in an unmarked grave, in Rochester Cemetery.
Illustration of Malon Burget from an issue of the Topeka State Journal, 1911.
Unmarked graves of Malon Burget and his father in Rochester Cemetery.
I guess this comic strip is over. I didn't expect it to end like this.
Isn't this how Cathy ended?
Daddy Daze
Someone needs to to tell the Daddy Daze creator that just because you came up with an entire Sunday comic while running errands in your car doesn't mean it's a good Sunday comic.
Mary Worth
I, for one, am very anxious to see Toby cuck Ian with Cal. Will Ian be into it? There's a part of me that thinks, yes, he would be. Sitting across the room with a glass of wine watching Cal rail his wife, thinking about grading papers. Perfection.
The Born Loser
Hey, it's some stupid made-up day of celebration. You should make a complicated dish that goes along with it! No, you don't get a cherry pie. Unless it's a cherry pie filled with dog poo and knives.
If you would like to support my writing or research, and that includes fan fiction of Toby and Ian's marriage, you can buy me a cup of coffee over on Ko-fi.
In a lonely corner or Prairie Center Cemetery in Osage County, Kansas, lies the grave of Joseph Dolifka. Born in Hungary, on March 5, 1838, Dolifka married Josephine Groman and they had five children--Agatha, Joseph, Philip, Julius, and Mary. In 1884, the family left Hamburg, Germany for New York City. Their ultimate destination, though, was Kansas. They settled on 80 acres in the Grand Haven neighborhood on the Shawnee-Osage county line where they raised livestock. Grand Haven was just a collection of farms with a post office on the property of W.H. Sears about a mile and a half west of the Dolifkas. Grand Haven was located northwest of Burlingame and southwest of Auburn. The post office, initially established in Osage County, existed from 1875 until 1901.
Dolifka farm in Auburn Township, Shawnee County, Kansas. From Atlas of Shawnee County, Kansas (1898)
Little is really known about the Dolifkas. On December 15, 1890, Joseph died at the age of 52. No obituaries of Joseph are available if any were printed in local newspapers. A Facebook post mentions that he may have been kicked in the head by a horse or mule but that could just be speculation. His family continued in the Auburn area until about 1895 when they moved to Hanover in Washington County, Kansas. Agatha (1869-1938) married baker Henry Kraushaar but the two divorced and he moved to Kansas City, Missouri and remarried. She is buried in Marysville, Kansas. The younger Joseph (1876-1905) was a photographer in Hanover until moving to Colorado for his health, passing away in Colorado Springs. Philip (1878-1968) was a farmer in the Hanover area. He married Katie Dusch in 1904 and had eight children. He died in Lawrence of bronchial pneumonia and is buried in St. John's Cemetery in Hanover. Julius (1880-1956) originally went to Hanover with his family until about 1904 when he moved to Flagler, Colorado and started a ranch. He married Amy Anna Banner in 1906. He is buried in Akron Cemetery in Akron, Colorado. Mary (1883-1971) married Roy Pangborn in 1906. They also moved to Colorado but after Roy died, Mary moved to California where she was buried.
Josephine Dolifka was born in Vienna in 1843. She had been visiting in Hanover the evening before her death and was feeling fine. The next morning, Philip went to her house to do some work, and upon entering the house, found his mother feeling sick. A doctor was called but she died mere hours later. Services were held at the St. John's Church and she was buried in Pecenka (Bohemian) Cemetery south of Bremen, Kansas.
Joseph Dolifka gravestone in Prairie Center Cemetery. May his soul rest in peace.
I gotta give some accolades to today's Believe It Or Not of not only opening today's comic with a beautifully detailed illustration of Hitler but also telling us, while we're eating our breakfast cereal before heading to church, that he had rotting gums, bad breath, and fake teeth. This is quite a kneecap for those who love Nazis.
You know who you are.
Marvin
That "couch" doesn't look like it would fit two people anyway.
Blondie
Were Dagwood and Herb out on a date? Are they using Christmas lights as some kind of code? Is this an open marriage scenario or are they on the down-low? Dagwood also looks like they maybe broke up.
Mother Goose & Grimm
Lassie hasn't had a live-action TV show since 1999 and network TV shows haven't had designated sponsors since the early 1980s but sure, go on.
Kitty Korner from Heathcliff
Where the hell is Adelaide and Figaro watching "Heathcliff"? Does she have DVDs? Does she pull them up on YouTube? Is "Heathcliff" on some streaming site I don't know about?
The Born Loser
Going to dinner and a movie isn't special. Although I guess it could be considering Mother Gargle believes they never go out at all. Did Brutus go into the movie thinking it would be good? It's a melodrama, those are never good. The only worse would be if it were a period piece.
Well, if Donald Trump can just make up laws, then so can your local police.
Family Circus
Were they holding an intervention for Kitty Cat? Cats don't respond to them. I've tried. Mark Trail
AAAH! Where'd you come from?! How'd you get out? Back in the crawlspace with you.
Dennis the Menace
It's never a good thing when an older person breaks a bone. Dennis doesn't care. He will loudly whisper about how you may have hurt yourself to his friends and you'll just stand there and take it.
Does Mother Goose have that painting hanging in her house or did they go to a museum just to point out that the Queen's Elizabethan collar is basically the same as a veterinarian cone?
Slylock Fox and Comics for Kids
Reading today's Slylock Fox, I was initially thinking the solution had something to do with 'root beer' actually being written on the bottle, or maybe the bear at the bus stop had been drinking his so his would have less liquid in it. And why is one of those bears not wearing shoes? The robber bear wore shoes because he knew that he was going to commit a crime.
What? Open the soda bottle and let all the carbonation escape? Let the root beer overflow and get my paw sticky? Great.
Rex Morgan, M.D.
I don't blame Sarah for wanting to stop shoveling the snow. That sidewalk goes on forever. I would much rather honor Richard Thompson, too.
2003:
Snuffy: "Didja hear that you can put yer name on a guvmint list and no one kin call you?"
Lukey: "That sounds like a great idear, Snuffy, except for one thing."
Snuffy: "What's that?"
Lukey: "Why would I want to put muh name on a guvmint list?"
Blondie
This guy should get a Twitter. Those kind of jokes go over well on Twitter.
Mother Goose and Grimm
Mary Todd Lincoln was very supportive of her husband. She was an intelligent and caring woman, often raising their children alone while Lincoln was off politicking before becoming president. The Lincolns had four children, two surviving into adulthood and only one outliving Mary Todd. Mary Todd suffered through bouts of depression due to this and especially after witnessing her beloved husband get killed right in front of her. While many people initially thought her psychotic episodes and mania were related to depression and bipolar, many historians now believe that she had a B12 deficiency. What I'm getting at is that Mary Todd was a loving and devoted wife to Abraham and he was ever grateful that she was in his life.
Family Circus
"And the cat's in the cradle
And the silver spoon.
Little boy blue and the man in the moon.
When are you going to be done with laundry, Mommy?
When I was a kid, I accidentally spilled some juice or something down the back of the family TV and it immediately sparked and went out. My Mom was napping at the time so I just took a nap too. When Mom got up, she discovered what happened and got really upset. Seriously, I feared for my life. Don't get between my Mom and Dallas.
Dennis the Menace
Leave it to Dennis the Menace to perpetuate the myth of Columbus. But Dennis is doing some top-notch menacing here. Not only is he hailing Columbus as a hero and fun guy, he's also wondering why there weren't more white people around.
Mother Goose and Grimm
That's not how acupuncture works...
The Lockhorns
I didn't even read the text. I just saw that dog and knew I had to post this comic.
Oh, Loretta's mad at Leroy so he's going to go golfing.
Woodpeckers have evolved over millions of years so that their brain is attached to their skull in kind of a mesh system. The skull also has shock absorbers to further protect the woodpecker's brain along with its eyes. Basically, the woodpecker is immune to severe brain damage due to wood pecking (or exhaust pipe pecking as a woodpecker used to do at our old house) and, I would assume, a headache as well. What I'm trying to say is that I don't know what kind of bird Woody was fucking but it certainly wasn't a woodpecker.
Mary Worth
"*SOB* It all started when I tried to lift that box for you and I hurt my back. The vicodin really helped so I wanted mo-o-ore. Then, when I was laying around shirtless all week, I posted a picture to my Instagram and asked people if I was ripped and then people started calling me a 'douchtard' and said that I wasn't ripped and they made fun of my hair and said I was stupid so then I wanted more vicodin to take that pain away too. *SOB*"
Crankshaft
JESUS CHRIST MAKE IT STOP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE IT STOP
