Noted Outlaws Were Sunday School Boys
Ross Phares surveys how famed western outlaws often engaged in religious life, preaching and studying Scripture. Jesse James, Cole Younger, John Wesley Hardin, and others reportedly valued Bible study, Sunday school teaching, and faith under pressure, with some using religion to justify or guide crimes.
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Phares
Western
Bad Jhen
Hit
Jesse James
Frantr
Jesse
Cole Younger
Jesse James Gang
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Cole
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John Wesley Hardin
al. Jennings
Joseph ‘Thompson, Hare
John Wesley
Peso Devaluation Seen In Mexico
Mexico City September 15 UP The Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce warned that peso devaluation is likely despite a better 1954 trade balance. Officials note only 1943 showed a favorable balance since 1938, citing a critical $300 million deficit that could trigger a brusque devaluation. The group urged higher production and exports to sustain development and monetary stability.
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Mexico City
U.S
Confederation of National Chambers’ of ‘Commerce
Bank of Mexico
Confederation
Mexico
Eisenhower dedicates national radio research lab in Boulder
President Eisenhower dedicated NBS radio research laboratory in Boulder. He urged nations to use scientific advances for peaceful ends, noting the 33 million dollar facility will study high radio frequencies for industry, science, communications and the armed services. He called the lab a new frontier with immense national significance.
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Boulder
Colo
Eisenhower
National Bureau of Standards
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Science
Armed Services
Crop Prospects Improve In Some Parts Of State
The USDA report shows August gains in High Plains El Paso valley and upper coastal counties for grain sorghum rice and broomcorn, but declines elsewhere. Cotton corn hay Irish potatoes down but drought areas offset by gains in southern regions and irrigated northwest. Corn at 34,054,000 bushels, rice at 16,430,000 190-lb bags, hay 1,522,009 tons. Cotton forecast 3,375,000 bales.
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Spt
High Plains
el Paso
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Crop Reporting Board
Trans-Pecos
Texas
Trans- Pecos
Broomcotn
Houston Judge Appointed To Duval County District
A Houston judge, A C Winborn of Harris County Third Criminal District, was sent to Duval County as special judge over the 79th Judicial District. He will handle a grand jury contempt motion involving four witnesses attached to political boss George Judge, and replaces former special judges tied to prior misconduct cases.
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San Diego
Tex
Houston
A. C. Winborn
Harris County
Third Criminal District Court
Maxwell Welch
Bowie County
A. S. Broadfoot
Bonham
Broundfoot
Texas Supreme Court
C. Woodrow Laughlin
Alice
Laughlin
Winborn
Duval County Prand
FL Saenz, Jr
R. L. Adams
J. C. King
Vidal Garcia
George
Welch
King
Garcia
Max M. Rogers
Mayor Admits He Knew Wealthy Woman Found Dead
Former New Orleans mayor Robert Maestri acknowledged to police that a wealthy real estate woman, identified as Mrs. Belen Rizant, visited his Roosevelt hotel suite on the night her body was found. Police say she died under mysterious circumstances, apparently dragged to a carpeted corridor.
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Maestri
Roosevelt Hotel
Mestri
William Dowie
Belen Rizant
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Nicholas Chetta
Orleans Parish
R. D. McDonald
Lubbock
Tex
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