Indian Memorial at Wounded Knee Commemorates Bloody Fight
On a knoll above Wounded Knee battlefield in Pine Ridge South Dakota 5000 Sioux gathered to dedicate a monument to those who fell December 29 1890 in the last stand against white encroachment The clash led by Big Foot and Sitting Bull ended after the massacre of troops at Fort Yates and the firing on Captain Wallace The ravine battle left hundreds of Sioux dead and marks the brutal end of the Ghost Dance era.
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Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge Agency
South Dakota
Little Big
Battle of
Big Foot
Custer
Little Big Horn
Sitting Bull
Geronimo
Great Spirit
United States
Fort Yates
Old Sitting Bull
Standing Rock
Bull Head
Shave Head
Strike-the
Catch-the-Bear
Bull
Wallace
Luxuries on Battleships Stir Navy Board Debate
Rear Admiral Bowles cites 350 tons of so called luxuries on modern battleships. He notes furnishings, machines, refrigerators and baths beyond essentials. Board members warn weight shifts may hurt efficiency while more space could be allocated to necessities.
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Bowles
Bureau of Construction
Board of Construction
Admiral Bowles
Admal
New York Times
Blue stockings rise from Johnson era to modern slang
The excerpt traces the term blue stockings from Samuel Johnson’s era to 18th century ladies who held literature driven gatherings. It notes the shift from witty male assemblies to women participants and explains how blue stockings came to describe such literary meetings and the ladies who attended them. The closing lines compare misfortune in baking and boxing as proverbial remarks.
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Samuel Johnson
Stillingfleet
Wisdom for Girls in a Woman's Home Era
Columns on stay-at-home fiances and public outings, home decor, and fashion. It includes excerpts from Hearst's American and Woman's Home Companion about domestic roles for women, census male occupations, and practical room furnishing notes. It also offers health and beauty tips and a humorous exchange on poetry in marriage.
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Hearst
Quips and Cartoonish Exchanges Across Publications
A collage of light snippets from Puck Boston Transcript Philadelphia Press Yale Record Chicago News Chicago Record Herald and others. Jokes about weddings, overboard sailors, shopping and manners appear with unnamed characters and witty banter reflecting period humor and social scenes.
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Shast
Thos
Wounded Knee Creek
Forsythe
Little Bat
Lone Star
Capt. Wallace
Helen Bishop
Bishop
Wilmington
Del
Mar
New York Tribune
Puck
Gladys
Beatrice
Ethel
Tutter
Hogtess
Gotrox
Baltimore News
Yale
Bill
Chicago News
Jonathan
Kansas City Journal
New York Sun
von Quizoz
H. Kashe
Scott
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Pittsburg Disputch
Chicago Record-Herald
Algy
Algernon
Bright
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