Fourth of July Celebration in Jimtown
Gabe Harker leads a frontier town in planning and staging a formal Fourth of July observance. The program runs from dawn salutes to a parade on Main Street with flags and a flagmaking effort, a reading of Washington's address, songs, an oration by Judge Ramsay, and a starlit Rocky Daves dance finale.
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Gabe Harker
Frst
Jintown
California
Gabe
Jimtown
Tam
Independence Hall
Washington
Yankee Doodle
Johnny Bull
Carter
Ramsay
Justice of the Peace
Main Street
Jim Bradley
Golden Girl
Sam Warren
Patterson
One-Eyed
Jack Abrams
Maj. Backus
Pete Craven
Big Tom
Plains
Daughters of the Revolution
Alex Davis
Rocky Dave's
Jamison
Porter
Liberty
Abrams
Major
Big Sam
Apollo
Mercury
Fourth of July debate ends in barroom brawl in court tale
A colorful courtroom tale pits a judge and a Philadelphia orator over what to celebrate on the Fourth. The crowd clashes as a scuffle erupts, leaving the judge injured and bickering about Columbus versus Washington.
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Columbus
America
Porter
Gabe Harker
Washington
Philadelphia
George Washington
Big Sam
Sam
Lberty
Jedge
Gabe
Jack Crawford
Tad
A Dry Rain in the Colorado Desert Mystery
In the Colorado desert rain storms occur where not a single drop touches the earth, leaving a man in heavy rain dry without a mackintosh or umbrella. The Kansas City Star notes this unusual weather phenomenon and its paradoxical moisture distribution.
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The
Kansas City Star
United States
Mackintosh
Colorado Desert
Odyssey of a Telegraph Word to New York
A telegraphic message from Hong Kong to New York zigzags through Asia, Persia, the Arabian lands, the Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, across Europe to England, then dives under the North Atlantic to New York. The journey consumes nearly an hour for a single word.
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Hong Kong
New York
Persia
Caucasian
Black Sea
Danube
Austria
Germany
France
England
North Atlantic
The English Peerage Through Nine Centuries
A historical survey notes that 538 temporal peers exist with 350 created this century and 126 in the last, leaving 62 titles from before 1766. Only five peers trace origins to the XIII century, illustrating how few early lines remain active in the Lords.
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House of Lords
John
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