Spin Yarns of Old Indian Fights
Colorful accounts of 19th century Indian warfare shared at a National Indian War Veterans convention in St. Joseph Missouri recounts Gen George Crooks ambushes and a Mohave chief Arataba guiding a peace terms gathering to identify the killers of Mohave attacked stagecoach passengers. Veterans recall bear hunts, frontier skirmishes, and Sioux and Ute clashes with vivid, non graphic detail.
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St. Joseph
West
George Crook
Old West
John F. Mahony
Prescott
Ariz
Mahony
Wickenburg
Arataba
Dead Creek
Crook
General Crook
Genung
Jackson
John
John W. Albrey
Decatur
Neb
Albrey
Minnesota
Montana
Mr. Albrey
O. C. Pollock
Canonsburg
Third
United States Cavalry
John Hubert
A. L. Baron
Big Horn County
Bill Cody
Kit Carson
Cody
Garry Owen
Custer
Seventh Cavalry
Buddie
Buffalo Bill
George G. Beck
Kansas City
Kan
Fort Hayes
Col
Albert Fensch
Los Angeles
Putnam County
Missouri
John M. Graves
Philadelphia
Hungarian Dance Compared to the Charleston by Ellen Richter
Hungarian movie star Ellen Richter says the ezardas and the American Charleston require similar leg and knee motions and both can be danced gracefully. She notes rhythm differences and points out the ezardas is a figure dance, unlike the Charleston.
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Berlin
Ellen Richter
Miss Richter
Beavers Build Dam From Scarecrow In Palisades Park
A colony of beavers in Palisades Interstate Park near St. Johns village flooded a highway by damming with a scarecrow effigy. A ranger tore down the structure and found the beavers rebuilt the dam using scarecrow remains.
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New York
Palisades Interstate Park System
St. Johns Village
Billionth Inch Measured by Bell Laboratories Instrument
Bell Laboratories demonstrates an instrument able to measure a billionth of an inch or a millionth of a degree of temperature, developed from P. D. Cioffi. The device tracks minute contractions and expansions in wires of varying composition when magnetized, about 100 times more sensitive than an interferometer using light wavelengths. A one thousandth of a degree change can trigger a spark across the scale.
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New York
Bell Telephone Laboratories
P. D. Ciofii
Cioffi
Roosevelt Quote Graces 1927 Western Newspaper Union Page
A 1927 Western Newspaper Union page features Theodore Roosevelt’s line asserting that no man is worth his salt unless ready to risk life and wellbeing for a great cause. The brief note frames the sentiment as a guiding wartime era ethic.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Kettles for Meat Dishes and Old Fashioned Cookies Guide
A historical culinary guide describes Scotch kettle meats like Lamb Haricot and Oxtail Kettle Roast, plus kettled chicken and baked ham with onions and tomatoes. It also offers old fashioned cookies recipes such as Ginger Snaps, Grandma's Cookies, Sugar Cookies, Corn Flake Macaroons, and Rich Cookies, plus tips on jelly clarity and gentle baking times.
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New Mexico
Romagne
France
American Battle Monuments Commission
General Pershing
York and Sawyer
Western Newspaper Union
Champion SparkPlugs
Toledo
Ohio
Champion
Byron
Austin
Wells & Richardson Co., Inc
Burlington, Vermont
Novelty Importing CO
W. Adams St
Chicago
Nye
East
San Diego
Calif
C. M. Guthrie
Campbell Ave
Lynchburg
Shurhit
Ford
Shurhit Products Inc
W.llinois Street
Minois
Spurlock
Nashville
Tenn
Hanford
Ars. Winslow
Dragaista
Boschee’s
G. G. Green, Inc
Woodbury, N. J
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