The Bird Woman Sacagawea Story in Portland Park
A Portland park statue of Sacagawea stands with her baby Baptiste and outstretched hand toward the Pacific. The tale recalls how Sacagawea aided Lewis and Clark, guiding them and rescuing instruments, until her death at Wind River in Wyoming in 1894.
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Portland Ore
Pacific Ocean
Sacagawea
Lewis and Clark
Shining Mountains
Lewis
Chirk
North Dakota
Sacaganeau
Baptiste
Papoose
Sacagaweau
Charbonneau
Bird Woman
Pacific
Wind River Reservation
Wyoming
Davy Crockett Fights and Falls in the Alamo Heroic Last Stand
The account recounts Davy Crockett born in 1786 Tennessee a famed bear hunter and scout who fought under Andrew Jackson. He joined the Texas defenders at the Alamo in February 1836 and died in its final assault as he defended with Old Betsy and a small company against Santa Anna's 2500 men.
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Davy Crocckett
Alamo
Crockett
Tennessee
Old Betsy
Andrew Jackson
Tohopeka
Old Hickory
Weatherford
Davy
Congress
Mission del Alamo
Col
William Travis
Santa Anna
Travis
Town Pests Create Path Through Grass
A resident notes locals cut across a public yard turning the grass into a usable path. After several others follow, the grass vanishes and a neat walkway forms.
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Sofi
The Scandal Sheet Seized by a Scornful Public Notice
The Big City paper wins a mock award for offensiveness. Readers are urged to discard the issue due to lurid columns and sensational crime coverage. An impersonating agent figure is described as overly persuasive and costly.
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Big City
Superstition in the Congo Hunting Charm Traditions
The article describes Congo rituals around witch doctors charms used to cure illness or curse enemies. It explains a ritual after a great hunter's death where a youth carries a grave rite, drums, palm wine, and mud on foreheads to grant hunters keen aim and swift moves, followed by a praise song as they depart.
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Congo
Lower
The Domestic Modes of Spiders and Tinamous
A brief exotic natural history note compares female spiders and tinamous. It describes the spider’s fierce motherhood despite a volatile nature and the tinamous’ fickle marriage pattern where one female often deserts husbands after laying eggs, creating a roaming sequence of mates while the male tends the young.
The Gloom Spreader Faces Public Backlash
A local figure known as The Gloom Spreader is criticized for dwelling on woes. Residents complain he sows negativity and causes discomfort, with children and pets reacting by crying or fleeing. Public sentiment shifts toward ignoring his pestlike behavior.
Well of Montezuma in Arizona pits water mystery
The Well of Montezuma in Yavapai County is a nearly circular bowl 500 to 600 feet wide at the rim with vertical sides down to 30 or 40 feet then sloping to a circular pool. Local lore says the pool is bottomless and water exits via a subterranean channel toward Beav er Creek valley. many call it a volcanic pit crater.
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Arizona
Yavapai County
Montezuma
Beaver Creek
Emery stones built Redditch needle industry
The Arrow river near Redditch England carried hard crystalline emery stones used to polish needles. Locals paid children a few pence for collecting pebbles from the brook, enabling Redditch to manufacture needles more cheaply and fueling early British industrial growth.
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Redditch
England
Bidford
Stratford-on-Avon
Christian Science Monitor
Hopeful Outlook in Court Etiquette
A judge questions a defendant about repeated abuse of his wife. The man replies with guarded optimism, saying he hopes his wife will recover and imply she may not endure further beatings. The exchange reflects domestic violence concerns in a courtroom dialogue.
Washington professor outlines potato disease controls
Dr. F D Heald of the State College of Washington spoke at the northwest potato conference in Spokane about comprehensive disease control. He urged balanced practices beyond seed treatment, including seed selection timing planting and cultural methods, and discussed seed soaking and formaldehyde use versus copper sulfate for various pathogens. Heald warned against borax fertilizers hurting germination and growth, and covered soil treatment with sulfur and foliage pest controls.
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Pacific Northwest
America
F. D. Heald
State College of Washington
Northwest Potato Conference
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
Heald
Mrs Edwards Visits Everett Family for Holidays
Mrs G L Edwards of Everett arrived Tuesday to spend the holidays with her daughter Mrs G B Woodruff and family.
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G. L. Edwards
Everett
G. B. Woodruff
Epworth League Plans Christmas Eve Caroling and Dec 30 Meeting
Epworth League schedules a special business meeting for Friday evening December 30 with an entertainment planned. A caroling party will depart from the Methodist church at 9 o clock Christmas Eve, promising a happy time for members and friends.
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Epworth League
Methodist
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Elmocot Great Scouts
Western Newspaper Union
Sacagawea, “the Bird Woman” Scout
Elmo Great Scouts
Davy Crockett
Belgium
Charles Sughre
Charles Avehrof
The
Carles Mvenbee
Leavenworth, Washington
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
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