Legend Of Old Blue The Palo Duro Trail Leader
The article recalls Old Blue the famed Longhorn steer on the Goodnight Loving Trail led more than 10,000 cattle to Dodge City from the Panhandle and Palo Duro. Born 1870 on the Nueces, he earned near-mythic status for intelligence and leadership before dying at 20 on the Goodnight Ranch. The piece then shifts to a Bureau of Agricultural Economics note on parity income definitions and 1948 farm-to-city income gaps.
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Old Blue
Southwest
Colonel Goodnight
Goodnight
Clarendon
Museum of the
Texas
Dodge City
Blue
Nueces River
New Mexico
Horsehead Crossing
Big Blue
John Chisum
Wyoming
Plains
Panhandle
Charlie
Kaw
Museum of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society
Canyon
Texas launches better schools program with Gilmer Aiken laws
Governor Jester signs Gilmer Aiken bills creating a state agency to secure 40 million dollars for public schools. The plan raises standards and teacher pay and adds 1500 new teachers at start, with about 5000 more by 1953, atop an ongoing shortage of roughly 11000 trained teachers statewide.
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Gilmer-Aiken
Jester
Texas
Platinum's Early Trials and Scorn in World Markets
The article notes that indigenous Andean peoples dismissed platinum as "unripe gold" and discarded it in streams. It recalls punitive punishments in Tsarist Russia and South America for attempting to substitute platinum for silver or gold, and mentions early U S gold coins being counterfeited in platinum.
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Andes
South America
Tsarist Russia
United States
Oklahoma range cattle station deal shocks market
At a Wilburton area range cattle station, workers began feeding 166 pounds of beef for a dollar, signaling a surprising local barter or sale. The terse report notes the unusual transaction tied to Oklahoma's cattle operations and the station’s activities.
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Oklahoma
Wilburton
River Namesake Rio de Janeiro Misnamed by Explorers
The city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was named for a river that does not exist. Spanish explorers mistook the bay for a river mouth and called it River of January after their discovery on January 1. Volcanologists note about 500 active craters worldwide with most in the Pacific region, about 40 under U.S. control in Alaska and Hawaii. Mount Lassen is the only one in the United States proper.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
BAE
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Pacific
Globe
Alaska
Hawaii
United States
Mount Lassen
California
Remnants of an Ice Age Inland Sea Cover Utah Region
Geologists describe ancient Lake Bonneville as a vast inland sea whose level stood about 1000 feet above today’s Great Salt Lake. It once covered western Utah eastern Nevada and southern Idaho.
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Utah
Great Salt Lake
Utah Lake
Sevier Lake
Lake Bonneville
Nevada
Idaho
Heifers Gain More From Dicalcium Phosphate Feeding
In a 21 month trial heifers fed dicalcium phosphate after weaning outgained counterparts by 166 pounds per animal. The mineral cost about $1 per head.
Ring Lost 23 Years Found at Home Garden
Mrs. John Spurgeon of Cleveland Oklahoma found her engagement ring twenty-three years after losing it while working in her home garden. She discovered the ring within four feet of the spot where she had always believed it lay, as the garden had been plowed annually for twenty-three years.
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John Spurgeon
Cleveland
Okla
Spa
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Blu
Texas School Program
Ring
America
Con-Ro
Work Clothes House
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