The Cowboy Image Versus Modern Range Life
A reflection contrasts romantic cowboy legends with the hard realities of modern cattle work. It notes how films glamorize punchers, discusses stampedes, branding, roundup routines, wages, and the shift from rugged old timers to urbanized stock hands, with emphasis on technique and changing work conditions.
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Fay
Moving Picture
Cheyenne
Wyo
Outfit
Puncher
Montana
Wyoming
Relawitci
Astir
Plans for a Denver Summer Home for the President
Colorado citizens launched a drive to fund and gift a summer home for the U.S. president. The Mount Falcon site near Denver will feature a gray granite palace with views of Bear Creek and Pike's Peak, hoped to be ready for next summer. President Taft, briefed in Denver, praised the site for its natural beauty and accessibility.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
United States
John Brisben
Walker
Mount Falcon
Front Range
Rockies
Taft
Bear Creek
Pike’s‘ Peak
Equal Pay for Teachers Stirs New York Debate
Grace Strachan, president of the Interborough Association of Women Teachers, led the fight for equal pay for teachers. The movement reduced gender salary gaps but created shifts as men are scarce. disputes over funding and influence arose with claims of spending and corruption.
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Grace
Strachan
Movement
Insos New York
New York
American Cities
Miss Strachan
Miss. Strachan
Owen Behan
Bar Association
Woman’s money and jewelry vanished from Waldorf box
A Georgetown South Carolina woman deposited 900 dollars and 60 000 valued jewelry in a wooden wall box at the Waldorf Astoria thinking it a safe. She awoke to find them gone and hotel valet William Peterson later returned the 900 dollars and missing items. He said he found the items in the shoes at 2 am during rounds.
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New York
Waldorf-Astorie
Blindness Strikes Martin Conway Ex Cavating Contractor
Martin Conway, an ex cavating contractor inspecting the river levee in Venice, suddenly went blind after a thick mist fell over his vision. His friends think his smoking may have damaged his optic nerve, causing the sudden loss.
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Venice
Martin Conway
Conway
Crockett Lone Star Home in Texas Preserves Heroic Legacy
San Antonio notes Davy Crockett's Texas home near the Alamo area as a memorial to his frontier life. Born 1786 in Tennessee, he moved west, joined Congress in 1826, opposed Jacksonian policy, and died defending the Alamo in 1836 as one of 140 Texans who fell.
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San Antonio
Tex
Davy Crockett
Texas
Alamo
Santa Anna
Crockett
Gress
Jackson
Mexico
Umbrella Opposes Highwayman in Altoona Robbery
Miss Margaret Dixon, a pretty auditor, faced a bold footpad while returning home with half a month's pay. She repelled the thief using a closed umbrella and began striking him, injuring no one as he fled, with no pedestrians around to witness the attack.
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Altoona
Margaret Dixon
Looking Upward and Quotations on Life and Attitude
A compact fragment from a 1999 piece references Marie and an aeroambulator with a baby outing, a judge remark about living well, and a Twain quote on dying. It plays with bright side thinking and a brief dealer cue about a cigars brand.
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Marie
Baby
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Reey
Grocer’s
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Joax
Mark Twain
Nebraska’ Directory
J. S. Leonhardt
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Branson
KER
Green Gables
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