Cowboys Listen For The Gun Race To End Rivalry
Cowboys at Flying Heart Ranch brood over a crooked foot race with Centipede Ranch as they listen to a stolen phonograph song. Tensions flare as bets, pride, and love triangle plots complicate life on the frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flying Heart Ranch
Jerusalem
Stover
Gallagher
Willie
Allus
Melby
Carara
Mex
Senor
Senorita Mora
Cactus
Holy City
Mélby
Fifth Avenue
Silas
Sil All
Bill
Missus Melby
Humpy Joe
Skinner
Humpy
Hump Joe
Jack
Chaplin
Smith College
Fresno
Jean
Bis
Snowplow Built by School Head and Pupils Cleans Yards
Bernard M. C. Walter head janitor at Yaeger school and his helper Sammy built a horse hauled snowplow but used 12 pupils to pull it. In thirty minutes the sidewalks and school yard around Nineteenth street and Indiana avenue were cleared. Four boys rode to weight it down and iron runners kept it steady. The plan required strict commands from the principal to manage turns.
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Bernard M. C. Walter
Sammy
Walter
Graceful gown by Paria designer with rich fabrics
Julia Bottomley reviews a stately gown featuring a two piece skirt with a V cut, dark brocade silk bodice and wide fringe. The design emphasizes draped lines, fashionable fabrics, and practical ease of movement, with a coordinating hat and ostrich ornament. This model is praised for longevity beyond a season.
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Paria
Julia Bottomley
Be Polite Warning After Falling Beam Incident
A heavy beam crashes from a sixteenth story prompting shouts of look out and a near escape. One man asks what’s the use while another jokes about politeness as a judge’s librarian notes the event.
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Pat
Hussey’s reaping machine inspired by boy’s scissors idea
George F. Stratton recalls in St Nicholas how Obed Hussey, 1830 Ohio inventor, solved a failing cutting device for a reaper by adopting two saw toothed blades like scissors on a bar. The breakthrough, prompted by a young son’s question, made Hussey’s machine the prototype for modern harvesters and transformed farming worldwide.
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Obed “Hussey
Ohio
Hussey
George F. Stratton
St. Nicholas
Winter Sled Velocipede For Snow and Ice
A novel winter ride uses a velocipede with a front spiked wheel and cranks on its shaft. The wheel slides in the fork to raise off the ground for downhill coasting and travel on snow or ice.
Old Gas Pipe Dispute Raises Courtroom Tension
In an English court a case over the quality and condition of a gas pipe laid underground years earlier highlighted age as a factor. A witness called the pipe old, while the judge noted age alone doesn’t endanger people, prompting the retort that burying someone can indeed end them.
In Dark Ways
A fragmentary text presents cryptic lines about fixed stars and moral innuendo, with unclear source and context suggesting a dark, poetic meditation on fate and behavior. The jumbled wording hints at nocturnal imagery and late judgments.
Pearls the One Ornament for the Debutante
The article explains why pearls suit young girls and describes a two strand pearl headband hairstyle by Julia Bottomley. It notes pearls belong to maid before wearing other jewels and details the coiffure with wire strands, loops, and pins. It covers hair color variations and asserts pearls suit youthful heads of any color.
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Gowers
Julia Bottomley
Chenille Flowers Brighten November Corsages
Chenille towers form corsage bonquets made of soft looped petals on green stiffened wire. Colors include red blue violet green and yellow offering charm on dull November days.
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Helena “Mora
New York
Mora
Chapin
Aaid ‘Stover
Benov
Berkeley
Stanford Glee Club
Helen Blake
Brand
Wally Speed
Helen
Mr. Speed
Culver
Miss Chaplin
Culver Covington
Smith
Kansas City
Yaeger
Nineteenth Street
Indiana Avenue
Kansas City Star
Boy Power
Harvester
Boy
Ito
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