Spin Yarns of Old Indian Fights at National War Veterans Meet
At St Joseph Missouri the National Indian War Veterans conclave featured veterans recounting Indian battles with Gen George Crook and Mohave chiefs. John Mahony of Prescott Arizona and others recalled 1871 stagecoach ambushes near Wickenburg and a battlefield near Dead Creek where Crook halted a killer and a later bear-skirmish with Navajos and Sioux chiefs. The event highlighted veterans like Albrey Pollock Hubert Baron Beck and Col Fensch and celebrated frontier fighters who served from 1866 to 1884 with memories of Settin Bull and Buffalo Bill era campaigns.
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St. Joseph
West
George Crook
Old West
John & Mahony
Prescott
Ariz
Wickenburg
Arataba
Dead Creek
Crook
Genung
Scouung
New Mexico
Jackson
John
John W. Albrey
Decatur
Neb
Albrey
Minnesota
Montana
Mr. Albrey
QO. C Pollock
Canonsburg
Third
United States Cavalry
John E.hubert
Hubert
Ducky
A. L. Baron
Big Horn County
Bill Cody
Kit Carson
Cody
Garry Owen
Custer
Seventh Cavalry
Buddie
Buffalo Bill
George G. Beck
Kansas City
Kan
Fort Hayes
Col
Albert Fensch
Los Angeles
Putnam County
Missouri
John M. Graves
Philadelphia
Hungarian Dance Compared to the Charleston by Ellen Richter
Hungarian movie star Ellen Richter says the czardas and the Charleston share similar leg movements knee slaps and graceful distortions. She notes rhythmical differences and that czardas remains a figure dance while the Charleston does not.
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Berlin
Ellen Richter
Miss Richter
Beavers Build Dam From Scarecrow in Palisades Park
In Palisades Interstate Park near St Johns village a beaver colony built a dam using a scarecrow. A forest ranger tore it down and left a khaki straw hat dummy. The beavers returned and rebuilt the dam using scarecrow parts.
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New York
Palisades Interstate Park System
St. Johns Village
Bell Labs shows ultra precise measurement instrument
The Bell Laboratories exhibit a device that can measure a billionth of an inch and a millionth of a degree. Developed by Ek. Crofi, the instrument detects tiny contractions and expansions in magnetized wires, claiming about 80 times the sensitivity of the interferometer, with a one thousandth of a degree change enough to spark across the scale.
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New York
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Ek. UD. Crofi
Cioffi
Spaniel Redeemed Himself in Bank Heist Scene
A frightened thief hides from pursuers after stealing $9,000 from a bank desk. A keen spaniel trails the culprit through a rhododendron bed to a pond where a gunshot injures a man. Police arrest the thief, while the dog earns a reward and a safe home for life.
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Dassent
Hugh
Jim
Understanding spontaneous combustion in damp plant and textile piles
The article explains how wet linen, cotton, wool, or hay can ignite over time when oils and moisture trap heat. Drying oils and limited air allow slow oxidation that builds heat, raising temperatures until the mass bursts into flame.
Fresh Catfish For Sale And Fresh Cow On Sign
A New York girl Marjorie Hardesty travels the Midwest and notes signs on Victory highway and a bridge saying fresh cow for sale and fresh catfish for sale. The readers see her surprised description of local wording and its meaning in Capper's Weekly.
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New York
Marjorie Hardesty
Middle West
Victory Highway
Marjorie
Poe
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