The Six Shooter as Civilizing Instrument of the West
A review of Frederic E Sutton and A B MacDonald Hands Up! Stories of the Six-Gun Fighters of the Old Wild West. The piece traces Emerson Hough's The Way to the West and argues the six shooter became a frontier tool of law and order. It profiles Wild Bill Hickok Bat Masterson Pat Garrett Billy the Kid and other peace officers, noting their deadly fates and the frontier code that guided arrest and justice.
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NCE
American Frontier
Emerson Hough
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Indianapolis
Colt
Old West
Hough
Fred Sutton
Jesse James
Cherokee Bill
Bill Doolin
Crescent Sam
Belle Starr
Sutton
Wild Bill Hickok
Bat Masterson
Pat Garrett
Billy Tilghman
Wild Bill
Texas
Hays City
Kan
Bill
Hickok
Law and
Roosevelt
Oklahoma City
al Jennings
Dodge City
Kansas City
God
Fort Smith
Masterson
Luke Short
Wyatt Earp
Chalk Beeson
Robert M. Wright
Isaac C. Parker
Ark
Daltons
Doolins
Oklahoma
Wild West
Deadwood
S. C
Billy the Kid
New York
Hearty Vintage Recipes From A Diverse Snack Menu
A collection of kitchen instructions features croquettes with hominy and horseradish, a horseradish butter sandwich, Indian tapioca pudding with cornmeal, baked crumbed potatoes, rhubarb raisin pudding, ham canapes with cheese, liver canape, honey and peanut butter sandwiches. The guide lists precise measurements and steps for each dish, reflecting pragmatic home cooking guidance of the era.
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Brazil
Beauty and invention guide decorative design
The saying asserts beauty as the core of decorative design and declares that without beauty a work lacks rightful existence. It frames beauty and truth as essential, warning that departing from nature yields strange or monstrous results.
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William Morris
The Cake That Was Too Long Breaks Off
A three year old named James takes a cake from a fresh batch and tells his mother the cake was too long for her. He explains it broke off the end for her as she answers a telephone call. The story captures a humorous baker’s mishap observed in a domestic moment.
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James
Jimmy
Indianapolis News
Crops Hastened by Heat for Early Lettuce Market
Popular Mechanics notes an outdoor Swedish garden yielded March lettuce by heating the soil with electricity. Early maturity remains probabilistic with more tests planned. The aim is a ground temperature matching spring air warmth to speed growth.
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Sweden
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Long Life Trees and Ancient Giants
The American Tree Association notes white oak, buttonwood, white pine, and hemlock live long lives while poplars willows cherries and some oaks are short lived. California sequoias exceed 38 000 years and Tule cypress in Oaxaca Mexico is estimated at 4500 to 5000 years.
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American Tree Association
When Trees Begin to Grow Different in Spring
The American Tree Association notes growth starts vary. wild black cherry begins around April 1, tulip or yellow poplar starts late April, and Norway spruce waits until early May.
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American Tree Association
No Royal Road Quote From Edison On Difficult Paths
The Youth's Companion quotes Thomas A Edison saying the hardest way is almost invariably the best way and that quick easy results should be trusted less, as he emphasized testing by harder methods. The statement champions steep, toilsome paths to reach great heights.
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Thomas A. Edison
No Free Will Offering
A short anecdote recounts Little Douglas visiting a home with his mother. Cookies were iced and left out. He asked for one and replied that the lady should not be thanked since he asked for it himself, reflecting a striking child’s remark cited from Youth’s Companion.
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Douglas
Village Has Long Name Llanfairpwllgwyn-gyllgogogoch
A Welsh village bears the famously long name Llanfairpwllgwyn-gyllgogogoch. It translates to Church of St Mary in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirl pool and near St Tysilio's church by a red cave.
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Wales
Llanfair P. G
Llanfairpwllgwyn-gyllgogerych-wyrndrobl
Musical Discovery by James Ballanta Uncovers Africa’s 17-Tone Scale
James Ballanta, a Black musician born in Africa and trained at the University of Edinburgh and the New York Conservatory of Music, reports through research that the Africa octave comprises 17 tones while the European octave contains 12. The finding highlights cross cultural musical theory and challenges Western tuning assumptions.
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James Ballanta
Africa
University of Edinburgh
New York Conservatory of Music
From Bad to Worse Health Miracle in Cleveland
Cleveland woman Mars M Riesstreer credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after childbirth and failing weight loss. She rose from 98 to 116 pounds and regained energy to work at home. The ad touts health as priceless, offering the product as a magical gift.
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Lydia E.pinkham
Cleveland
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mars
M. Riesstreer
Nelson Ave
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