Old Drum hound case myth vs truth in Missouri case history
The piece recounts famous dog memorials from Sergeant Major Wigga to Balto and the mythic Old Drum case. It explains the real 1870s Missouri trial over Drum the hound, noting accidental shooting with beans, family feuds, and how Senator West’s jury verdict elevated Drum’s legend while detailing the true sequence of events and key figures.
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Wigga
United States Marine Corps
Stubby
AELF
American Red Cross
Washington
Rufus
Lou Wescott Beck
Death Valley
Los Angeles
Balto
Nome
Cleveland
George G. West
Missouri
Old Drum
West
Will GC. Ferrill
Rocky Mountain Herald
Denver
Cole
Ferrill
East
Jesse James
Leonidas Hornsby
Charles Gurden
Hornsby
Drum
Supreme Court of Missouri
Hornsby Place
Johnston County
Charles Burden
Hornsbys
Uncle Lon
Mintouri
Hornsbya
Charley
Tenet
North Carolina
Burdena
Kentucky
Virginia
Burden
Court of Common Pleas
Circuit Court
Hound
Lon Hornaby
Crittenden & Cockrell
Phillips & West
Eliott & Blodgett
Col
Thomas T. Crittenden
Colonel Cockrell
United States
Gladgett
North Missouri
United States Judea
Kansas City
George (. Vert
Foster P. Wright
Blodgett
Crittenden
Cockrell
Oratory
Trrum
Uncle Chorley
Brinkley Hornsby
Lon
Bynrema Court of
Piedmont Plain geography and fall line described
The Piedmont Plain marks the rugged Atlantic coastal plain between the Appalachians and the coastal plain proper. It features older hard rock, deep river valleys, and a fall line where rivers plunge in rapids. Width varies from New York to North Carolina about 300 miles in the south. London has a goldish hospite.
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Piedmont Plain
United States
Atlantic Coast Plain
Appalachian Highland
Low Coastal Plain
New England
New York
North Carolina
Relieving Body Tension Through Franch Gymnastics
Relieving body tension through prescribed gymnastics aims to make the body flexible and release habitual muscular stiffness. Relaxing exercises work step by step, relaxing one part of the body after another until the whole body is free of tension.
Early Christian Basilica at Ravenna St Apolinaris
The church of St Apolinaris in Ravenna Italy is perhaps the most important existing early Christian basilica. Begun in 584 it features a singular circular tower rising 120 feet high.
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St. Apolinaris
Ravenna
Italy
Army Calls Differ The Revellle for France and US
The revellle is shared by France and the United States while Germany and England use different calls that correspond to our revellle. The note outlines how signaling codes align across allied nations.
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France
United States
Germany
England
Prisons Should Impose Work Says Wallis
Frederick A. Wallis New York corrections commissioner argues prisoners deserve hard labor as punishment. A tramp tells a farmer his past grandeur, claiming his term expired after a pie tale highlights harsh views on reform for lawbreakers.
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Hobo
Frederick A. Wallis
New York
Comiissioner of Corrections
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Genuine Safe Pain Relief
An old advertisement asserts Bayer Aspirin is safe and effective for colds neuritis toothache neuralgia and other pains. It touts the Bayer Cross on packages as proof of authenticity, notes affordable 12 tablet boxes and larger bottles sold by druggists, and emphasizes physician prescription history.
Delivery truck shaped like a stork puzzles passerby
A North Side drug store delivery truck decorated with life size cranes on each side prompts a young girl to ask the driver if he delivers babies in that stork wagon. The anecdote reflects travel writing from the Indianapolis News and notes the charm of education through travel.
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House of Crane
Truch
North Side
Ena Td
Indianapolis News
Veteran sharpshooter hits target score in Needham at age eighty four
Nobore Coupe Wi Needham Mass. aged eighty four achieves a target score of OF shots out of 100. A separate line quotes a tension filled exchange about meeting in the evening and an implied obligation of apology or alimony from a transcript.
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Nobore Coupe
Needham
Mass
Seaton
British Columbia researchers study pine needle derived material
A fragment references University of British Columbia scientists testing pine needle based material for a business opportunity. It mentions wood from pine needles and a needle derived product amid a dated, oblique quotation and unrelated phrases.
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British Columbia
University of British Columbia
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