Missouri News Nuggets highlights a wide mix of law school rating and state events
The Missouri Bar Association classed the University of Missouri School of Law as class A among 39 schools. Reports cover a fatal car train crash near Des Arc, embezzlement pleas, a Missouri Egg and Poultry Company suit, a fire in Holden, highway funding debates, zoning rulings, and university history. Also listed: population milestones, mergers of power companies, smallpox cases near Jefferson City, and local financial matters including tax discrepancies.
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School of Law
University of Missouri, Columbia
America
Columbia
Council On Legal Eduction
Bar of Themerican Bar Association
C G. Sheets Piedmont
Heets
Missouri Park
Eir
Des Are
Freeman
Mes H
Bertha Trene
St. Ouis
Little ‘Rock
Sheets
Sharp Bend
Fred Showman
Louis
Ifty
Millard C. Curtis
Alderican National Bank
Kansas City
As City
Curtis
Buenos Aires
St. Paul
Minn
Snelling
Supreme Court of Missouri
Missouri Egg and Poultry Comy
Missouri Pacific Baid Company
Missouri Egg Poultry Company of
Sedalia
Holden
Missouri Pacific
Theiversity of
Missouri
Homery
Cray
Mit
Columbia Evening Sourian
Hhe
Missouri Te Bar Association
Nsas City
A. T. mmm
Jefferson City
Annneced
Hadley
Washgton University
Wright County
W. H. Cottongin
Hyde
State Highway Department
State Highway Commissioners
Theodore Gary
Highway Commission
St. Louis
Missouri Supreme Court
Morris Evraiff
Morris Friedman
Jin
Penrose Investment Company
Better Built Home and Mortgage Company
the Univeristy of
Mississippi River
General Assembly
Boone County
Columbia and Rolla
Louisiana and
Eastern
Pike’ County
Mark Twain Memorial Association
Louisiana
Rufus Jackson
Mark Twain Memorial Park Association
Mexico
Hurlbut
James P. Rice
Millionaire assumes newspaper reins to woo ex fiancée
Stanley Munn, a twenty five year old heir, inherits the Yatestown Daily News with a demand to carry on his uncle's political policy. He reshapes the paper by pushing reporters to cover society events as hard news and meets Madelaine Pitt at a tea, where she reveals she broke off an engagement to her mother’s choice. The next morning the Daily News breaks the engagement scoop, proving a reporter can outpace a society editor.
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Stanley Munn
Stanley
Yatestown
Madelaine
Daily News
Clavering Arms
Clavering
Madelaine Pitt
Lady Hopewell
Rob
Tanley Munn
Bob
Buffalo Grass Remains Remembered in Western History
The article recalls buffalo grass once common across North America from the Saskatchewan plains to the Rio Grande. It describes its short, curly blades and year round forage value for wildlife and herds. Civilization and plowing eradicated the plant, leaving it a memory noted by Adventure Magazine.
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North America
Frank H. Huston
Saskatchewan
Rio Grande
Platte Valley
New Mexico
Empire of the West
Adventure Magazine
Queer Street joke on firm culture ends with grumble dig
A sharp exchange between a junior and senior partner critiques a firm called Queer Street. The junior argues the firm is ill regarded because they never complain about problems, implying complacency. The senior counters with a wry conclusion.
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Queer Street
Forgotten hunter first sight of Pikes Peak by Pursley
The article recounts James Pursley, a Kentuckian trapper who predated Lewis and Clark in parts of the Upper Missouri country and, during a 1804 trading expedition, reportedly first viewed Pikes Peak. Detained near Santa Fe for about two years, Pursley later told Pike of finding gold in what is now South Park, Colorado, though he had discarded nuggets.
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Lthough
James Pursley
Pursley
Mississippi
Lewis and Clark
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri
Pike
Colorado Rockies
Platte River
Santa Fe
Platte
Pikes Peak
Prisoster
South Park
Colo
The Living Ghost of Hugh Glass
A historical account of Hugh Glass, left for dead after a bear attack, enduring weeks with injuries and a cannibal diet to reach safety. He confronted Bill, the companion who abandoned him, forgave him, and renounced revenge after revealing his survival.
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Glass
Bill
Hugh Glass
Head-Hunting a Religion in Solemon Islands
In Adventure Magazine the piece argues white superiority corrupts contact with backward peoples. Head-hunting, used to propitiate ghosts and drive canoe-building and other labor, linked religion to economy and social life. Alien rulers suppressed it, ending a core culture and leaving islanders bored with foreign offerings.
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J. D. Newsom
Sultana of Sulu's Prayer on Phonograph Message
The sultana of Sulu records a message for Mrs. McKinley praising her people and asking Allah to spare the sultan’s health and happiness. Lieut Col Sydney A Cleman notes the consent and quality of the message. The report appears in World's Work Magazine.
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Sulu
Sultana
Mr. McKinley
World’s Work Magazine
Odd Sort of Music in a Dripping Tap
Aldous Huxley compares a dripping tap to music within a half octave range, noting drops climb small steps then plunge, wander in varied intervals, and shift timing within limits. The description resembles an odd lullaby as one drifts toward sleep with uneasy curiosity.
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Aldous Huxley
Earth Showered by Stars
Garret P. Serviss notes in the Mentor that 15 to 20 million shooting stars enter Earth's atmosphere daily, usually pea sized or smaller and burn up before reaching ground. Very few deaths are documented from meteorites, since ground impact is rare.
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Garret P. Serviss
Homemade Money Trick Prompted Government Money Satire
A Tartar citizen buys barley and pays with a large banknote, receiving a peck of small notes in change. The notes are neat enough to catch his eye, prompting the dealer to reveal he printed them himself. The exchange highlights a homemade currency hoax.
Proved Cheery Philosopher and the Return of a Gift
The Cheery Philosopher asserts that giving away every item returns twofold. The Other recalls a personal experience from last December when they gave away their daughter who later returned with her husband.
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London
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Missouri Pacific Rail Company
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State Conference For Social Welfare
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Missouri Welfare League
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Henley
Rock Island Railway
Cole County
H. T. Leach
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National City Bank of St. Louis
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Ben King
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