Emigration notes and frontier life in 1855 Kansas region
Reports from the Kansas frontier describe the Karaas State Historical Society release, the confluence of Switzer’s and Dragoon creeks near Cotiwell City now Burlingame, and a fertile wooded area with coal and lime stone. Emigrants from Arkansas head to Kansas, with hundreds expected, plus wild cat sightings, heavy rains, rising river levels, and rising prices for flour and corn meal as navigation on the Missouri falters. A Pennsylvania Company group plans town site near Big Springs, with 60 acres planted and a healthy, hopeful pioneer community forming.
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Cotiwell City
Burlingame
New Hampshire
N.Y. Tribune
Herald of Freedom
Lawrence
Arkansas
Kansas
van Buren
Johnson
Crawford
Walnut Creek
Barton County
Big Bend
Glasgow
Brunawicker
Kansas Weekly Herald
Leavenworth
Missouri
Kansas City
Pennsylvania Company
Fayette County
Big Springs
Douglas County
Wm. Y. Roberts
Kansas River
UN Accuses Communists Of Murdering Koreans
The United Nations Command accused the Communists of wanton murder in the demilitarized zone on June 2, killing two South Korean soldiers and moving their bodies across into Red territory.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations Command
Demilitarized Zone
N. Jt
Lumbermen Plan Search for Ancient Sultana Hulk
West Memphis Arkansas lumbermen led by A P Dacus plan a search for the hulk of the Sultana, the Civil War era steamboat sunk in 1865 with 11457 lives lost in the Mississippi River. The disaster altered the river channel, forcing silt to fill the wreck area and divert the main channel about four miles east.
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West
Memphis
Ark
A. P. Dacus
Mississippi River
Mississippi
Dangerous operation price questioned in quirky exchange
A line of dialogue features a doubtful doctor and a wary speaker debating whether a dangerous operation can be bought for 50 dollars, highlighting a satire of medical commerce.
Navy Pilot Credited With Saving Six Houses
CORPUS CHRISTI Texas an IP A trainer plane from Cabiness Field called out Navy firefighters yesterday and was credited with saving six farm ten ant houses from destruction. One house was destroyed but Cabiness Fire Chief Leroy Dunk said all seven would have been destroyed if the pilot had not radioed his base.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Navy
Cabiness Field
Cabiness
Leroy Dunk
Woman 104 Reflects Clarity After Tossing Specs
Long Beach California report notes Mrs Mary M Kelly turning 104 yesterday and saying she sees things more clearly now that she has discarded her spectacles since age 103. The feature highlights her long life and independence as she celebrates the milestone.
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Long Beach
Calif
Mary M. Kelly
Abe
Barkers and friends take summer Texas vacation
Satanta residents and relatives travel widely for two week breaks visiting San Antonio gulf coast and Ozarks. Families include Barkers, Gregories, McDaniels, and others from Satanta Newton Kiowa and Guymon. Many attend weddings, labor runs, and city visits with extended kin across Oklahoma and California.
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Satanta
Pete Barker
Wm. F. Gable
Wichita
Texas
J. E. Barker
San Antonio
Gulf
Ray Gregory
J. I. Hixon
J. H. Gregory
Tola
Jack McDaniel
Jim
Jerry
Mike
Lake Taneycomo
Ozarks
E. R. Utt
Camp Carson
Colo
Pvt
Eugene Utt
Newton
Eugene
Kim Robinson
Cities Service
George East
Earl Massey
Paul
Kiowa
Ida Childs
Modesto
Calif
Clyde Massey
Guymon
Okla
Carl Tery
Misouri
Deanna Rae Hatfield
Hooker
Levien Herbel
Stanley Hays
A. L Sweighat
Don
Borge Tex
Jennifer Hays
Hom
EB. R. Att
Maxine
Tunis-Lewis
Herb Wilson
Jerry Russell
California
Flynn Sullivan
Sullivan
L. Parker
Watonga
Dogan Dacus
Yvonne
Sayre
Seven East Germans On Trial For Spying
Berlin report says seven men faced trial on charges of imperialistic spying. ADN state they worked for West Germany the United States counter intelligence corps and NATO, the Allied military group in Europe.
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Berlin
ADN
West Germany
United States
NATO
Europe
Larro Calf Feeding Plan Boosts Growth 28 Percent
Larro researchers unveil a new calf feeding plan using SureRaise pre starter and SureCalf starter at Larro Research Farm. Calves grew 28 percent faster than standards and doubled birth weights in ten weeks. No calves were lost and calves began cud chewing at 12 to 14 days, signaling strong roughage use. See your Larro SureFeed dealer for full details.
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Larro Research Farm
Man With the Iron Nerve Dies on Texas Chair
William Henry Meyer 85, dubbed The Man With the Iron Nerve, was executed in Huntsville Texas for the murder of his daughter. No one claimed his body and witnesses recalled his calm demeanor as he faced death. Meyer refused last meals or a stay, muttering a religious farewell as the hood was placed.
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Huntsville
Tex
Death House
William Henry Meyer
Texas
Meyer
Singapore Faces Multiple Walkouts Amid Unrest
Singapore grips by sympathy strikes as 70,000 factory, transport and dock workers threaten to walk out. Government struggles to end three walkouts and curb Communist inspired rioting. The Singapore factory and shipworkers union warns of a stoppage within 48 hours unless the 40 day old harbor clerks strike is settled.
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Singapore
Singapore Harbor
River Ferry Capsizes Drowning 31 Women and a Boy
A Ganges River ferry capsized ten miles above Allahabad killing 31 women passengers and a boy. Twenty other women aboard swam ashore, survivor counts and exact circumstances are being investigated.
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New Delhi
India
Ganges River
Allahabad
Canadian Inventor Hides Bed With Space-Saving Gadget
In Montreal Canadian inventor Guy Roberge, a former lieutenant colonel, pitches a bed shifting device to free attic space. Patents pending in Ottawa and Washington describe a pulley system that hoists a bed between the roof and ceiling each day. The mechanism is operable by hand.
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Montreal
Guy Roberge
Ottawa
Washington
Statehouse Electrical Bid Comes In Under Estimate
Topeka firm D. Tacher Electric Co. submitted the low bid of 49,664.79 for renovating the state house electrical system, far under the 1955 Legislature's projected cost of 135,000. The project received 135,000 in funding and the bid was the day's lowest among bidders.
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Topeka M
Statehouse
Detachable cables and trap door hoist mechanism
A description notes that the device uses an electric motor and detachable cables. When the bed is in use, the swinging trap door or sliding panel covers the ceiling cavity. the hoist is not operated during idle periods.
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Karaas
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Sovereign
Atchison
Curtis Studio
Myrna Archibald
Cortik Studio
Deanne Harms
St. John
Deanne
Cities Service News
Larro
Steve Carter
Larro Research
Elsie Yearwood
Houston
Yearwood
Statehouse Electrical
East Fulton
Pat
Dad
Rangoon
Batis Te
C. Breeze
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