Desert Saga of McCann Family and Stark Feud
Arizona tale follows Wilson McCann and rival Stark clan through betrayals murder and vengeance. Jasper Stark plots, Ann Gifford confesses to McArdle’s murder, Dave Stone recants, and Mesa jail holds a killer as Jim Yerby thwarts lynching.
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Wilson McCann
Arizona
Jim Yerby
Julia Stark
Matthew Stark
McCann
Jasper
Julia
Wilson
Ann Gifford
Ethel
Peter McCann
Nora
Jasper Stark
Carl Gitner
Stark
Tom McArdle
Starks
McCanns
Nora Gifford
Phil
Dave Stone
Stark Rider
Ethel Gifford
Ann
McArdle
Stone
Mesa
Gitner
Town divided over Dave Stone lynch plan
Yerby and others weigh the risk of mob justice as Jasper Stark Carl Gitner and Dave Stone dominate talk in Basford. Some urge patience and a fair trial while others push for quick punishment amid rumors of a Circle Cross plot and impending lynching.
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Nquor
Dave Stone
Jas
Yerby
Basford’s
Limp Shell
Red
Medford
Simp
Shell
Nester
Jas Stark
Carl Gitner
Stone
le Page
Hank
Tucson
Circle Cross
Jim
Billy-Bed
Jasper Stark
News of a Mesa lynching scare and a confession
Ann Gifford and Yerby race to Mesa to reveal that Dave Stone has confessed to killing Tom McArdle. A town mob fears lynching as Julia Stark and Wilson McCann plot a cautious plan to secure Stone in jail. The narrative follows shifting loyalties amid a volatile, lawless frontier town.
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Stone
Yerby
Giffords
Ann
Ethel
Tony
Miss Ann
Dave Stone
Circle Cross
Tom McArdle
Jas Stark
Gitner
Mesa
McArdle
Tom
Tye
le Page
David
C&¥e Cross
Phil
Texas
Red
Julia
Monarch
Ben Bolt
Mike Rand
Dave
Jas
Jag
Stalling
Southwest
Jasper
Ann Gifford
Dominick Rafferty
Rafferty
Sam Sharp
Wilson McCann
Miss Stark
McCann
Lyn
Sam
Wilson
Mike
Menu history and Earth’s elements in brief lessons
The article traces the emergence of the menu with rise of European inns and mid nineteenth century American hotels, noting early meals at one great tables and handwritten slips. It then summarizes Earth's crust showing oxygen silicon aluminum iron calcium magnesium and alkalis as primary elements in specific proportions.
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Jacob
Esau
England
France
United States Hotel
Philadelphia
Foley's National Hotel
Norfolk
New York Hotel
New York
Earth
Traveling tinsmiths and the bells that announced them
A reader debates the origin of the term tinkler, recalling itinerant tinsmiths who warned villages of their approach by ringing a small bell, a custom noted in London lore.
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Pat Menders
London
Pushmataha Choctaw Leader Dies After Noted Public Life
Editha Watson recounts Pushmataha the Indian general born in 1764 on a Mississippi bank. A daring warrior who earned a chieftainship with five scalps, he allied with Americans in the War of 1812, helped educate his people, and negotiated with the U.S. government before dying in Washington and receiving military burial with Jackson present.
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Mississippi
Pushmataha
Texas
Tecumseh
Pushmatala
Washington
Claiborne
Americas
Jackson
Lafayette
America
Congressional Cemetery
Cornell
Western Newspaper Union
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By William MacLeod Raine
WNU Service
William MacLeod Raine
Rand
Senorita Stark
Will McCann
Editha Watson
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