Scotland Led in Witch Burning Claims Face London Debate
The London press reports anti witchcraft evidence arguing Scotland bears much of the blame with claims of around 4 000 executions. Some writers say strangulation was common while others insist fire at the stake prevailed with examples from Glasgow and Edinburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United Kingdom
England
Wales
Ireland
Scotland
Lauchlan MacLean Watt
Glasgow
Castlehill
Edinburgh
Finn
Saltpans
Castle Hill
Shirley
Skelton
Aberdeen
Kennedy
Associate Presbytery of Scotland
Erskine
Church of Scotland
James Paterson
Midmar
Aberdeenshire
Bronze figures to flank Boulder Dam flagpole display
Read about two 30 foot winged figures by Oskar Hansen to be cast in bronze and placed on either side of the 125 foot flagpole at the Nevada end of Boulder Dam. The piece faces downstream across the Colorado Gorge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Boulder Dam
Oskar J. W. Hansen
Chicago
Colorado
Courtesy on highways and in daily life ethics
The piece argues that safety on roads hinges on courtesy and that respectful consideration for others reduces accidents. It questions whether politeness varies with prosperity, notes differing elevator etiquette, and asserts that true courtesy reflects education and culture across individuals and nations.
American patchwork loghouse quilting defined and origin traced
The term American patchwork known as loghouse quilting originated in North America and was later attributed to both the United States and Canada in Britain. The style uses ribbons and panels of silk satin or velvet in diagonal color sequences, with overlapping strips around a central square, producing a refined fabric art observed by Western Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Canada
England
Great Britain
America
Courtesy on Ohio Roads Drives Courtesy Signage
Reporter Leonard A Barrett describes a roadside sign on a large Ohio oil company truck urging horn use with the sign reading the road is yours. The driver will turn right when hearing an approaching horn illustrating the rare expression of courtesy on highways and the tendency of drivers to block others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Pretty Boy Floyd and the Kansas City Shootout
A detailed account traces Pretty Boy Floyd from the Kansas City massacre through the Nash ambush to his Ohio field death on October 22, 1934. It covers Hoover's pursuit, surrender offers rejected, and the final gunfight with FBI agents and police in Wellsville as Floyd and Richetti fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bureau
J. Edgar Hoover
Cookson Hills
Kansas City Union Station
Finis
Ohio
F.B.T
Hoover
Frank Nash
Kansas City
Hot Springs
Ark
Nash
Raymond Caffrey
Otto Reed
McAlester
Okla
Hermanson and Grooms
Bolivar
Pry Way
Oklahoma Hills
Buffalo
Richetti
Wellsville
Joe Warren
Toledo
Sheriff Long
Steubenville
G-Men
Long
Cincinnati
Samuel P. Cowley
Stoll
East Liverpool
Moncar
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Frousehold von Walker
Western Newspaper Union
Bell Syndicate
WNN Service
Arnold
Fis
Wnqu Service
Leonard A. Barrett
Robert Piguet
Fleishacker Zoo
San Francisco
Rex Collier
Pretty Boy” Floyd
Theo
Lad
WNU Service
Pei
Hamlins Wizard Oil
V, A
Stuart
Stearns
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