Yancey Cravat Heads for Oklahoma After Border Venture
Yancey Cravat, editor of the Wichita Wigwam and husband of Barbara Cravat, recounts crossing the border during a Venable family gathering in the Indian Territory. He pursued a captured pony after a race on a thoroughbred mountai n, but the horse broke two legs. His wife and four year old son Cimarron accompany him toward Oklahoma County.
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Tancey
Prairie peril and a masked marshal chase across Osage country
Sabra and Cim voyage with Yancey Cravat toward Osage as a mule train pushes through heat and rain. They encounter four armed marshals who question Yancey while a tense mood grows about a rumored outlaw gang and a looming prairie home. Sabra wrestles fear and care for Cim as the trio nears a promised, uncertain future.
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Vances
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Pardner
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Almig
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E Egler
Night in Osage follows a perilous wagon town stay
Sabra and Cim arrive in Osage to a rough main street filled with crude shacks and saloons. The couple endures a sleepless night as gunfire, screams, and raucous talk erupt beneath a thin-walled room while their boy sleeps in a bare bed. The scene closes with Sabra terrified and Yancey returning wounded.
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Osage
Kabra
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Sabra
California
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Yancey
Mont
Rome
Plack
Anish
Theo
Eler Shirer
Elevator debate in Britain delays Windsor Tower lift plans
Lord Hanworth opposes a 65 age limit for lifts in state buildings while Sir Thomas, a retired scientist, funds a private elevator at the Natural History Museum. The pilot lift opens amid mixed views as Britain slowly adopts elevators in newer and taller structures.
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Windsor Castle
England
Lord Hanworth
Gidfeld Thomas
Natural Statory Museum
Thomas
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Lanworth
Britain
Blended CONOCO Gasoline Promoted in This Ad Copy
The ad touts CONOCO Balanced Gasoline as blending three types of gasoline for quick start power and efficiency. It emphasizes the benefits of multi bean like blending in coffee and urges drivers to find the Red Triangle locating CONOCO gas stations.
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Conoco
Castoria for Children Ailments and Safe Home Aid
Advertises Castoria as a mother’s standby for children’s ailments including colic constipation feverish discomfort and sleepless fretful babies. Promotes the plant based formula claiming harmlessness and notes Fletcher’s signature as proof of genuineness.
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Chas
Fletcher
Stage attire rules force changes in Victoria's Vanities scene
An order from the lord chamberlain required proper attire for stage properties in Lagland. In Victoria’s Vanities at the Victoria palace, a whip of the Nelson era and a gilded papier mache figure were altered after an official noted the need for clothing. The next night the figure was covered with glittering pins to maintain decency.
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Lagland
Victorias
Victoria Palace
Lord Chamberlain
Jack Taylor
De Pierces Favoclts Prescription Boosts Women’s Strength
A wartime era ad promotes De Pierces Favoclts Prescription as a tonic for women, claiming it makes weak women strong, available by druggists in tablet or liquid form with no alcohol.
Pearls from the Street Lead to Reward and Lost Airman Find
An unemployed man in London found pearls in a street and claimed a £100 reward from the police. The London Authority dispatched a diver to recover a gold pencil dropped during a shipboard incident, restoring it to a lady unharmed. The most remarkable find involved an airman who landed unexpectedly in midair.
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London
London Authority
Lost keys found after desert flight incident
A pilot recalled losing a bunch of keys while flying over the eastern desert and later realizing he had misplaced them again. After another landing in the same region he discovered the keys allegedly remained with him, confirming their location near Ale fect.
Tanlac Claims to Ease Indigestion Gas and Pain
A vintage ad touts Tanlac to relieve indigestion gas bloating stomach pains and bowels discomfort. It cites Mrs Arvena Bowen of Topeka Kansas reporting relief and promises a money back guarantee if Tanlac does not help.
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Arvena Bowen
Topeks
Kans
Sears
Tanlac
Children Learn About Cow at Los Angeles Schools
The Los Angeles Board of Education reports 23 percent of local students have never seen a cow and 50 percent have never seen a calf. A traveling exhibit on dairy life moves daily from nearby meadows to public schools, teaching about milk and meat.
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Board of Education of
Los Angeles
Fiction Writers Dream Of One Great Novel Earning Big
The question asks if any fiction writer desires to earn $200000 from a single great novel and then quit. It frames a hypothetical about wealth from a single successful work and the impulse to retire from writing.
Measure of Progress and Shared Endeavor Quotation
A reflective note from American Magazine argues that progress is a shared achievement rather than a solo illusion highlighting the value of communal effort and mutual support.
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American Magazine
Good Identification
A holdup man left his bankbook at the scene of his crime and found out that for Identification purposes there is nothing that bank connection.
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Theresa
Indianapolis News
ConjJuring Creek Name Traced to Local Lakes
The river Cosjuring Creek in northern Saskatchewan gains its name from the nearby Wizzard Lake and Tawgomow origins, as documented in regional etymology notes.
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Saskatchewan
Wizzard Lake
On a Par When the Old Man Drills a Hole
A fragmented item notes a parable like scene with a craftsman and a dig in a historical column. It mentions Saint Francis and a chronicle style entry with vague references to a place and era. The readable text hints at a fable tone rather than a fixed event.
Detecting Motor Vibrations in Aircraft Engines
A vibration detector test for airplane engines uses a practical method to assess motor health. The device helps identify abnormal engine motion, indicating potential mechanical issues requiring maintenance or inspection before flight use.
Mysterious Trade Snag Ties Up Silk Imports
Fragments from a 19th century paper describe a disruption at a silk import firm named Lawalle &t in Cheeves or Chicago area. The note mentions a Cicape factory and a crane at Arente, with shipments of silk impeded. Names and places are unclear.
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Nechyifs
W. An U Salt Lake City Case No 15 1931
A brief docket entry from Salt Lake City lists case number 15 1931 involving W An U. The notice outlines the filing of a civil matter with limited details within the state court system.
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W. AN. U
Salt Lake City
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