Casey Jones and the Casey O Jones Legend in Song and Film
The piece recounts Casey Jones of the Cannonball Limited disaster near Vaughan Mississippi in 1900 and how Negro workers Sim Webb Wallace Saunders and Isaac Wentworth helped popularize his legend through a chantu and vaudeville songs later adopted in film. It notes Jones’s widow never remarried and his son John Jr. died in World War I, framing a history of railway folklore and its stage adaptations.
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Casey
Reno
Memphis
Vaughan
Miss
Nick
Cayce
Sim
Webb
Sim Webb
Wallace Saunders
Isaac Wentworth
T. Lawrence Seibert
Edward Lawrence
Leighton Brothers
Salt Lake
John, Jr
John Luther “Casey” Jones
Grand slam in diamonds beats clubs in Becker hand
Souths bold five diamond bid led to a grand slam after North inferred a 2-0-5-6 shape and chose diamonds as trump. South ruffed the heart lead, drew two trumps, and used clubs to discard spades, finally ruffing a spade for 13 tricks in the Culbertson era game.
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South
North
Declarer
Test Your Code Breaking Ability Daily Cryptoquote
A cryptogram quotation shows a substitution puzzle with hints from letter patterns. The sample reveals phrases about value and currency to thought, with "Yesterday's Cryptoquote" noted and a quotation attributed to Amiel.
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Amiel
AORIZONT Crosswalk of Clues From Eugene Sheffer Puzzle
Crossword style clues list with numbered entries for across and down words. Includes semantic prompts like mother ribbon ornament printer mark Semite macaw Leander capital of Latvia apea Algerian city maker of clothes fate glutton izing girl's name blunder high hill small valley fuel yield Greek letter nourished untidy act of restraining dispatched son of a place slender footed vase pagan deity relative female raft gulls English prelate auditory organ being vertical period market of time operatic heavy melody etc. Appears to be an old crossword puzzle solution prompt with references to yesterday's puzzle and times. The text also features stray annotations and misprints from 1957 syndication.
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Aorizont
Latvia
High Hill
Small Valley
TV Highlights Prime Time Lineup and Guests
TV schedule lists Mike Douglas with Janice Harper and the Gent ry Brothers at 4:30 pm plus Five O clock Movie Southside 11000 with Don DeFore at 5 pm T man tracks a counterfeit plate case in prison at 6:05 pm Ive Lived Before with Jack Mahoney after plane crash and WWI death twist Daktari at 7:30 pm then Invaders at 8:30 pm Tuesday Night Movie Fame Is the Name of the Game at 9 pm Petticoat Junction at 9:30 pm Fugitive at 10 pm Las Vegas Show at 1:30 pm with Della Reese Julius LaRosa Irwin Corey
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Mike Douglas
Janice Harper
Gentry Brothers
Don DeFore
T-Man
Jack Mahoney
Paula
Judy
David
Tony Franciosa
Friday
Petticoat Junction
Hooterville Valley
Sam
Kate
Kimble
Las Vegas
Della Reese
Julius LaRosa
Irwin Corey
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