Quest for the Original Buffalo Bill Reveals Three Claimants
A Wisconsin and frontier history piece details claims to the title Buffalo Bill. It recounts William Comstock as a famed scout known as Buffalo Bill and his 19th century buffalo hunting contest with William F Cody. Cody ultimately wins by right of conquest and is celebrated as the plains master hunter.
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Buffalo Bill
William PF
Cody
William Frederick Cody
William Comstock
Phil Sheridan
Comstock
Wisconsin State Historical Society
University of Wisconsin News Service
Wisconsin
Imiscensit
The
State Historical Society
Charles Brown
Alfred O. Barton
Madison
Homer Wheeler
Fifth Cavalry
Fort Wallace
Kan
Bobbs- Merrill
Pony Express
Wid. Bill
Fort Hays
Buffalo Bill" Cody
Kansas Pacific Railroad
Fort Sheridan
Buffalo
St. Louis
Brigham
Lucretia Borgia
Kansas
Pacific
Sheridan
Plains
Match Comstock
Walnut Creek
Béécher Faisd
Turkey Leg
Saline Valley
Grover
Bobbs-Merrill
William Matthewson
Wichita
Matthewson
William Cody
Monnet
Regional Agency to Be Set Up for Kansas Wheat Market
Kansas wheat growers may benefit from a regional agency linked to the national Farmers Grain Corporation. Farm leaders and Kansas storage elevators debated plans to bring unaffiliated elevators under the marketing framework with stock ownership shared between regional and state groups. A Wichita meeting on January 27 aims to finalize the plan with farm organizations supporting cooperation with the farm board. Wichita scene reports two deaths, Dr Otis Gray and a baby suffocation case in a hotel lobby incident involving Bobby Carlson.
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Topeka
Kansas
Federal Farm Board
J. C. Stone
Farm Board
McKelvie
Farmergé ™ Equity Union Grain Company
Pal Partners Union Jobbing Association
Kansas Wheat Pool
Farmers’ Commission Company of
Hutchinson
National Wheat Agency
Farmers’ Grain Corporation of Chicago
McKelvié
Great Bend
Wichita
Kansas State Farm Bureau
Cal. A. Ward
State Farmers’ Union
C. C. Cogswell
Grange
Ralph Snyder
State Farm Bureau
State Farm Bureau. 3. L. Hartshorn
H. VP. Carlson
Iuka
Kas
Names and meanings in a portrait of Amelia and Alice
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union piece analyzes the names Alice Roosevelt Longworth Amelia Earhart and Amelia, tracing their symbolic meanings. It links gracious independence to social prominence and suggests a life of public service, leadership, and reward aligned with shared ideals.
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Alice
Ben Bolt
Alice In Wonderland
Washington
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Mrs. Longworth
Alice White
Ice
Amelia
Amel
Amelia Earhart
Amelia EH. Barr
Western Newspaper Union
Meeting date set for Wichita on wheat agency plan
Alexander Legge announced from Washington that a Wichita meeting of Kansas cooperative marketing associations interested in a regional wheat agency for Kansas is tentatively scheduled for January 27. The item appears amid reports of local tragedies and bills, noting a Marion boy recovering from a neck fracture, and a Hillsboro youth who drowned in the Little Arkansas River.
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Kansas Cooperative Marketing Associations
Kansas
Wichita
Alexander Legge
Farm Board
Washington
Newton
Billy
W. R. Parker
Marion
Waldo Epp
Hillsboro
Little Arkansas
Ste
Solomon Islanders Use Dogs Teeth as Money in Past
In late nineteenth century Solomon Islands a primitive currency system used dog teeth. Only two teeth per dog counted as legal tender, drilled for stringing and worn as necklaces by the wealthy. Ten teeth could buy a high quality wife. a moderately fine young man sold for a lower price.
Notable jeweler B H Faces 1 74 dies in Atchison
In Atchison a longtime local jeweler identified as B H Faces 1 74 formerly from Germany has died. The obituary notes his American career in the jewelry business and his native country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
B. H
Germany
Monument to Lieut John Fitch in Bardstown public square
The public square in Bardstown Kentucky honors Lieut John Fitch, credited as the steam boat inventor. On February 12 1926 Congress approved a 15000 appropriation for a suitable monument. The memorial was unveiled in ceremonies on May 25 1927.
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Bardstown
John Fitch
United States ‘Enate
House
Fitch
Red Cross Ink in Fountain Pens Ad Calls It Blue Ink
An advertisement touts Red Cross Liquid Blue fountain pen ink as a wonderful ink and bluing. The ad notes it makes fountain pens blue and pleasant to use. The text adds a tongue in cheek line about the difficulty of enjoying being a model citizen.
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Smoky Hill River
Elmo Scott Watson
Billy Comstock
R. Cody
Walsh
Billy Copastock
Colonel Cody
Otis BE. Gray
St. James Episcopal Church
Nancy
Barbara Gray
C.ji Coffman
Sproul
Cheyenne Bottoms
Here
Jake
Ford
Dean
Doan
John Greener
Sheridan Ave
Indianapolis
Ind
Corneille
Garfield
Parker
Hisenx Chem
Floreston
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchogue
N. J
Urifite CO
Heal Matare Trust Bidg
Philadelphia
Dearborn
Ghicago
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