Sleepy Cat gamblers clash as storm ends in standoff
In Sleepy Cat Selwood asserts control over the Thief River mine and faces the Vigilantes and casino rivals. Tracy rails at loss and betrayal as McAlpin reveals the gamblers’ victory and a burned hall. Selwood plans a night ride to Steepy Cut with Carpy’s warning and Starbuck’s looming feud.
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Pardaloe
Tracy
Bik
Pardalee
Selwood
John
Oma Pordalee
Tony
Tre
Dave
Tim
Abe Cole
Davey— Selwood
Daven
Daver
Bob
Frank Sanger
Bortoe’s
Calabasas
Scott
McAlpin
Sellwood
McAlin
Sleepy Cat
Transbody
Courier
Jimi
John Cole
Chris Kickbusch
Doc Carpy
Starbuck
Schood
Lefever
Tracy Halt
David
Thief River
Ben Wentworth
Amoke
Etter
Tam
Toba
Carpy
Selwond
Christie Fyler
Mealpin
Fyler
Carey
Steepy
Epen
Pursuit of Happiness: Chasing a Wild Rabbit With Changeable Garments
A reflective essay fragment notes happiness as elusive, likening pursuit to chasing a wild rabbit. The speaker observes that wealth and new partners rarely deliver lasting joy, while true happiness may arrive with a favorable environment, echoing Herbert Spencer on life being correspondence with surroundings. The excerpt is from Irving Bacheller's Optaions of a Cheerful Yankee.
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Happines
Angel of Happiness
Herbert Spencer
Irving Bacheller
Beneficent Rabbit Plague Tularemia Study Report
Government investigation examines tularemia as a natural control for jack rabbits snowshoe rabbits cottontails and some ground squirrels The disease appears periodically reducing rodent numbers and alleviating damage to orchards vineyards farms and pasturage.
Swiss Mennonites Founder and Beliefs Highlighted
A brief note on the Mennonites naming from Menne Simons a Swiss reformer of the sixteenth century and their belief in believer baptism. The article emphasizes their biblicist authority and focus on sanctity of life and a person’s word noting strict but humane discipline yet critics comment on punishment.
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Mennonites
Menne Simons
Missouri hunting fishing seasons start June first
Jefferson City June 1 opened two seasons for hunting and fishing. Squirrel season starts this day but will move to July 1 next year under a new law. Artificial bait season opens with halts allowed. High Missouri waters push fish to small streams improving fishing prospects, especially Ozark headwaters, as fish spawn upstream and stay in calmer streams.
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Jefferson City
Keith McCause
Missouri
Ozark
Poplar Bluff
Dan Stiver
Poplar
Blum
Aster
Vandyls
Daniver
Black River
da Piedmond
Lila Meador
Frank Maddox
Bank of Patterson
Clark's Creek
Ainst
M. Pillis
Maddes
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York
Paris
Festus
Jefferson County
Hillsboro
Mexico
Dad
Violette
Florida
Mark ‘Twain
Mark ‘Twain Memorial Park
Girl Scouts of Mexico
Helen Cave
Mark ‘Twain State Park
Richmond
Ray County
State Bureau of Mines
Barton County
Lafayette
Lafayette County
Houston
Roy Rilley
James Stoops
Sommersville
Mountain View
Summersville
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NK H. Spearman
Gunn
Missouri News Nuggets
Baker
George A. Auersn
de Soto
Si Food and Drug
Garden City
W. H. Shields
Cass County
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