Osage Oil Wealth Brings Sudden Riches and Tension
William G. Shepherd notes Osage fortune from Oklahoma oil transformed a once impoverished tribe. Checks rose from 40 dollars yearly to thousands per person as oil leasing boomed. Pawhuska leaders ride influence into Tulsa and Washington, while fears grow of a corrupting gold rush on Osage life.
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William G. Shepherd
Harper’s Magazine
Washington
Oklahoma
Osage
Sam
Kansas
Delaware
Osage County
Kate Barker
Wilson
Pawhuska
Pawdus
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Washington, D. C
Bacon Rind
Brank
Lef
Marie Antoinette
United States
Waterloo Churches Observe Week of Prayer A Call to Pastors
Waterloo churches will observe the annual week of prayer from January 2 to January 8. The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America issued the call to local pastors. The pamphlet includes suggested topics prayers and confessions. The council has 32 constituent bodies with headquarters in New York City and Frank Mason North as president. The call notes world unrest and urges followers of Christ to seek the true way amid difficulties.
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Waterloo
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
New York City
Frank Mason North
Christ
Waterloo man figures in Food Administration wartime history
Albert Merritt’s history on wartime food control cites George Lichty of Waterloo as head of the retail division in Washington from Aug 7, 1917 to Feb 6, 1919. The article notes Lichty’s direct work with 360,000 grocers and 40,000 marketmen, plus large-scale distribution of resolutions and flour substitute campaigns that saved millions of bushels of wheat.
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Albert N. Merritt
Chicago
Merritt
Waterloo
George J. Lichty
Mr. Lichty
Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
National Food Administrator
California
Food Administration
Theo. F. Whitmarsh
New York
National Wholesale Grocers Association
United States
Black Hawk County
Lichty
Smith, Lichty & Hilman Co
National Food Administration
Wholesale Grocers Exchange
Association
Hoover
Whitmarsh
America
Waterloo Girls Honored by OWA Athletic Board
Annabelle Thompson a University of Iowa freshman and Bea trice McGarvey a sophomore earned athletics proficiency honors this year. The group included 25 freshmen 25 sophomores and three junior women who played last fall on university women’s physical education teams.
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Annabelle Thompson
University of Iowa
Beatrice McGarvey
Department of Physical Education
Women Jurors to Get Separate Room in Courthouse
County officials moved to provide women jurors with private quarters during deliberations after January jury selection. Carpenters cut a doorway to connect a newly designated second floor jury area while guards secure the space. When juries linger overnight the privilege of rest on a couch may be offered, with one current grand jury room repurposed if two juries must retire simultaneously.
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Black Hawk County
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