Governors Davis and son freed in pardon bribe case
Topeka report says former Kansas governor Jonathan M. Davis and his son Russell were acquitted on charges of selling a pardon to Fred W. Pullman the bank robber for 1250. Jury deliberated 32 hours after a 10 to 2 acquittal vote held overnight.
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Topeka
Jonathan M. Davis
Kansas
Russell
Fred W. Pullman
la Cygne
Shawnee County
Walter S. Dickey
The
Kansas City Journal
Davis
Natchez War Tale Ends in Bloody Clash
In a brutal forest conflict, the narrator and Labrador fend off Damian and Choctaw attackers. The narrator saves a girl, rescues wounded allies, and buries Joe after a fierce duel, then escapes with the girl toward Chickasaws while Native tribes honor the fallen with a carved tree.
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Labrador
Santen
Damian
Damean
Joe
Damoan
Mademoiselle
Narbonne
Teg
One Line From Mademoiselle on the Cherokee River
The narrator recalls a delayed journey along the Cherokee toward home with Mademoiselle Dahisgaarde. She rebuffs marriage while hinting at a future, and a New Year note prompts a rapid sprint toward Charles Town where she awaits, ending with a cliffhanger as a stranger calls out.
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Chakafalaya
Mademoiselle
Virginia
Carolinas
Bienville
Damian the Fox
Chickasaws
Ship Island
France
Mademoiselle Dahisguarde
Monsieur
Claire Dahisgaarde
Lelieve
Charles Town
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Dlot
King Street
Mademoiselle Dahisgaarde
Santee
Hopi Snake Dance Dates and Observations
A critic describes the Hopi snake dance as August ritual whose exact date shifts with shadows and is staged at Orabi Hotevilla Walpi Shumopavi or Mishongnovi. The eight to nine day ceremony ends with rain ritual, snakes offered, and a violent vomiting rite, which the narrator condemns as pagan folly.
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Harriman
Adventure Magazine
Oratbi
Hotevilla
Walp
Shumgopavi
Mishongnovi
F.J. Messmer
Ninth Ave
Burlington
Iowa
Mother Nature
Salt Pork Stew From Household Recipe Notice
A fragment from the Washington Star describes a simple stew method using half a pound of salt pork browned, then simmered in boiling water with six chopped beef pieces, one carrot, and two onions added for flavor.
Tungsten facts and historic isolation
Tungsten or wolfram is a metallic element isolated by Ki hujart in 1783 after Scheele isolated tungstic acid in 1771. It occurs in minerals as tungstate of iron and manganese and as scheelite. It increases steel hardness and tenacity and Coolidge made tungsten malleable and ductile, enabling its use in incandescent lamp filaments.
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Kihujart
Scheele
Coolidge
Expressing Life in a Hurry Ends in No Enjoyment
The saying notes that constant rushing drains pleasure. only when hurried living is embraced as a choice can one derive any satisfaction, suggesting a paradox about urgency and happiness.
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Gov. Davis and Son
Wichita
Oklahoma
Colorado
New Mexico
Wichita Federal Land Bank
Milas Lazarer
Emporia
Mary Jane Dando
Manhattan
J. W. McCulloch
Kansas State Agricultural College
McColléch
Jess W. Miley
United States Treasury Department
Charles B. Griffith
Atorney General
Beloit
W. C. Ingram
Caucasia
Russia
Patie
Wendell Philips
Hugh Pendexter
Nee
Missouri
Chapter
Monsieur le Sauviage Blanc
Edsk
Florida Gold Refining Co
W. Adama St
Jacksonville
Fla
SPOHN
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
Ny Ea
Hellig Ellis
Dept. W
Memphis
Tenk
Brown
N. Y
City
Chesebrough Mt. . Company State St. Cinta New York
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