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In 2010 the city honored
Ehrmann with a life-size bronze statue by sculptor Bill Wolfe. He is depicted sitting on a downtown bench, pen in hand, with a notebook in his lap. "Desiderata" is engraved on a plaque next to the statue and lines from the poem are embedded in the walkway. The sculpture is
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manufacturing industry (Ehrmann
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Haldeman-Julius Co., Girard, Kansas (Little Blue Book No. 1113)
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