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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1929
Page
2
Jack Nash and companions endure brutal captivity as Toutou Lafitte tortures Nikka and awaits the promised “twenty four hours” while Helene negotiates and a rescue seems possible yet distant in this perilous chapter installment.
Hugh and Nikka face capture after a planned rescue fails. They fear Wasso Mikali may contact Rings and Watty, risking a rescue attempt. The group considers their dire situation, recalling past dangers at Le Ferriere, then plans to rest as hours pass in darkness.
The Detroit News writer outlines two rival origin tales for the Bowie knife. One credits Jesse Cliffe, a blacksmith employed by Rezen Bowie, with making the weapon after a clash with Maj. Norris Wright where a silver dollar saved James Bowie. The other assigns James Bowie full credit for modeling the knife, with a Louisiana blacksmith crafting it, while Wright features in both tales.
The first settler in the Chicago area was not white. Around the revolutionary era a colored trader from San Domingo named Gene Baptiste Veint de Saible settled in the territory, built a toy house, and later sold it to Verchaian.
A Brooklyn judge faces a familiar former playmate now arraigned for intoxication for the eighteenth time. The prisoner, Tom, aged fifty five, shows signs of hardship from repeated workhouse stays as the two recount a shared boyhood.
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