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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
Digitizing Sponsor: Perkins School for the Blind

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Corporal Pierre Tihon, who Was blinded in an attack in the Argonne. Louis H. Cohn is leading him. other machinery, and to teach aFrench mechanic its operation. But men skilled in machinery oreven capable of learning are 6carccjust now. Those who are not at thefront are mobilized in the munitionsfactories, and so Mr. Colin, who hadintended to spend not more than a■week at the institution, called LePhare de France, has now been therethree months. The printing machine,which has been sent from New York,has been installed* so that a blindsoldier can run it, under the supervi-sion of Mr. Cohn, and the printing oZthe first machine-made, raised printmagazine ever issued in Europe hasbeen almost completed. It is calledLa Lumiere, or The Light. One ofthe editors is Dorothy Canfield, theAmerican novelist, who in private lifeis Mrs. John Fisher. (Her husband -sat the French front in the Verdunregion driving an American ambu-lance. ) Mr. Cohn was born in Brooklyn andmoved at an early age to Clevel

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