Old-Time Fiddler and Square Dances Kept Alive Across States
The vintage fiddle tradition and square dances persist in Kansas City and Virginia. Reports from New York to Missouri describe fiddlers, callers, and classic figures like Captain Jinks, Arkansas Traveller, and Turkey in the Straw. The Virginia music festival in Charlottesville aims to showcase this enduring old-time music and dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Montreal
Kathleen Redman Strange
Catskills
New York
New York Sun
Mary Elizabeth Osborn
Jinks
Fate
Belle
Richmond
Virginia
America
Blue Ridge Mountains
Charlottesville
Wiuatis
Kansas City
Jefferson City
Rolla (Mo
Ozarks
Arkansas
Turkey
South Dakota
Dume Evans
Dume
Dunne
Sweet Home
Western Newspaper Union
Tales of the Tribes and Blackfeet in Plains History
The article outlines the Blackfeet confederacy Siksika Piegan and Bloods with allied Atsina and Sarsi, their warlike culture Sun dances leaders and legends, and notes their territory in Montana and toward Saskatchewan plus modern reservation life. It also mentions Two Guns White Calf, the Indian head on the buffalo nickel, and compares Siksika with Blackfeet Sioux.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plains
Washington Irving
Nez Perce
Montana
Saskatchewan River
Canada
Nothing but Hard Cash for English Lecturer
A Philadelphia audience learns Matthew Arnold would not lecture without cash in advance. He required $2,000 in hand before delivery, and after committees secured endorsements and loans, he collected the exact amount in cash and proceeded to deliver his address on The Regrettable Tendency Toward Materialism in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Arnold
Philadelphia
Mr. Arnold
America
Pathfinder Magazine
Castoria: A Gentle Teething Remedy For Babies
Teething troubles cause fussiness in infants and mothers worry over sudden upsets. Castoria is advertised as a harmless, mild remedy made for babies and children that soothes colic and daily discomfort, usable from infancy with a wrapper noting its safe formula.
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Endorsed Laxative Remedy
An advertisements describes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the highest endorsed laxative. It suggests taking it in water or lemonade for quick relief of headaches and weak patients, and claims anti acid benefits for sour stomach and indigestion with fifty years of medical doctor endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnesia
Naturally Shocked by Show of Discourtesy
George Creel, en route from New York to San Francisco, sits with a large woman in a dining car. After she asks if her cigarette offends him, he says not at all but notes no women rose from chairs when he entered. Collier's Weekly advertises Dr. Pierce's Pellets for liver bowels and stomach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Creel
New York
San Francisco
Mr. Creel
Collier’s Weekly
Skeletons from Cassington Garden Unearthed with Daggers
A garden in Cassington England yielded the remains of a man a woman and a child judged to be Anglo Saxon more than a thousand years old with two long rusty daggers found beside them. The discovery prompts archaeologists to study burial customs and regional history.
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Cassington
England
Boil Worth $25 Owing to Pay and New Pain Relief
An odd OCR fragment describes a product named Carboil claimed to relieve pains from bites and stings. It mentions a $25 owed amount and a 50c card offer, with unclear references to Dora Good and Spurlock-Neal.
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Neal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fiddler
Jaybird
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Kentucky
Editha L. Watson
Waban
Nipmuc
Blackfeet
Chas. H. Fletcher
Quality & Quantity Laboratory
Miamisburg
Renner’s
Canton
Ohio
Madame Sloan
GEN
Tampa
Florida
Hull
Lock Box
Stevens Point
Wis
Menjou — Perfumes
Rahway
N. J
Dean’s
Doan
Doans
Boschee
Ping
Frey
West
White Cree
Chaffey
Palm Springs
California
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