Dusty Western Encounter Sets O'Hara Against Sanderson
O'Hara, a tenderfoot, escapes a violent confrontation with Sanderson aided by a powerful rancher Dave Ingram and encounters Miss Steelman’s mysterious pull. Worrall questions him about Miss Steelman and the judge, linking a shooting to a mistaken identity and a pending rendezvous at the longhorn corral.
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Viamona
O’hara
Ingram
O'Hara
Cone House
Longhorn Corral
Stephen Worrall
Wresler
Worrall O'Hara
Worrall
Steelman
Lea
Longs __ corral
Corral
Shep Sanderson
Shep
Miss Steelman
Barbara Steelman
Box Canyon
Dave Ingram
Jong Man
Neck of the Woods
Cows Cause Towns War in Concho Texas in War Tale
A drifting lawyer, O'Hara, seeks practice in Concho while two ranching factions led by Wes Steelman and Dave Ingram contend for power. Foreman-style talks reveal murder plots, rivalries, and a looming private war tied to Judge Warner and Jerry Hughes’s estate.
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Worrall
Texas
Dave
Wes
Shat Brown
UT Hill
Jim Wilson Creek
Ingram
Steelman
O'Hara
Shep Sanderson
Judge Warner
Wes Steelman
Jerry Hughes
Jerry
Diamond Tail
Hashknife Ranch
Shep
Concho
Dave Ingram
O’hara
Boyhood of Charles Evans Hughes highlights precocious start
The piece details Charles Evans Hughes born 1862 in Glens Falls New York, tutored at home by his parents, translating Greek by age eight, reading Shakespeare early, and graduating high school at thirteen. It traces his path from Colgate and Brown to Delphi Cornell and Columbia, leading to a law career and public service culminating as U S Supreme Court justice and presidential candidate.
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Charles Evans Hughes
Glens Falls
N. Y
Oswego
Charles
Newark
N. J
New York City
Old Academy of Music
Flo
Hughes
Colgate
Brown University
Brown
Delphi
Delaware Academy
Columbia University
Columbia
Wag
Cornell University
New York State
New York
United States Supreme Court
California
North American Newspaper Alliance
Odd Prescription That Cured An African Native
A missionary recounts a witch doctor in Africa treating a man with powdered gramophone record and loco motive water to move him and speak. The patient recovered his limbs and speech, but the tale exposes the treatment as illogical and mocks reliance on white man tech. The writer jests about a deafness cure from a telephone directory.
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Africa
Lacy
Manchester
Eng
Guardian
Weight and forms of asbestos noted in historical text
The passage compares asbestos varieties. amphibole is weak and used for pipe covering while chrysotile is stronger and may be spun for trade. It also casually criticizes luxury talk toward the poor in a terse, period voice.
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William MacLeod Raine
Sanderson
Sonie
Aurora
Ny Ant
San Marcos
Old Wes Steelman
Nester
Patrick McCarthy
Dead Horses Creek
Chas. E. Hughes
Davida Hughes
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