Willa Cather Birthplace Highlighted in Frederick County
L Adolph Richards profiles Willa Sibert Cather born December 7 1875 near Gore Frederick County in a three story red brick house. The piece covers her Nebraska roots Pittsburg work Allegheny High School editing McClure's Magazine leadership travel France and death in Europe. It notes honorary degrees and her novel Saaphira and the Slave Girl published in 1940.
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Willa Sibert Cather
Back Creek
Gore
Winchester
Nebraska
James Cather
Ann Howard
William Cather
Willa
Charles Cather
Virgil
Red Cloud
University of Nebraska
Pittsburg
Daily Leader
The
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McClure’s
New York
Europe
America
France
Willa Cather
Frederick County
Ordinance Bans Vehicle Lights Shining On Fields Gardens
On motion of B O Brumback and seconded by Grover Tee the ordinance to make it unlawful to cast flashlight or headlight beams onto any field forest woodland poultry range or building passed its first and second reading. A public hearing is set for 10:00 A M in the Supervisors Room Frederick County Office Building January 9 1956 for its third reading and final adoption. Attest Lee N Whitacre Clerk.
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B. O. Brumback
Grover Tee
Frederick County
Daily Across Clues Puzzle
A crossword style clue list with definitions for across entries including injection fish state small cases fossil resin girl name digits gypsy sailor not many east by south group of nine people New Zealand tree scraped off detachable lamp nestle man s nickname Shoshonean Indian seagull booths granular snow of a glacier highest country person pas recovery stain poker stakes common skink Egypt botch
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Crossword clues for Samoa and poetry terms
A reader-provided crossword style list with clues covering topics like winter, an individual, thrice mus, beneath, bomb type, Koran chapter, transgressor, dull, hyphenated quote, edits, distant, subside, spread grass to dry, remnants, owing, inner bark of lindens plural, last syllable, pitchers with lids, extreme, in bed, guide, not any, herd of whales.
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Samoa
Sapphira and Slave Girl Memorial Site in Frederick County
The old mill and Mill House remain with repairs, the house matching Mount Vernon style, and a graveyard of Sapphira’s slaves marked by an iron fence and stone wall. The piece urges Frederick County natives to read Willa Cather’s Sapphira and the Slave Girl for Civil War era life.
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Sapphira
Mount Vernon
Frederick County
Willa Cather
Jim Tatum Named ACC's Top Coach
Maryland coach Jim Tatum was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Football Coach of the Year by the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association. He led the Terrapins to an unbeaten season and a January Orange Bowl date with Oklahoma, marking his second ACC Coach of the Year honor and adding to his national acclaim.
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Jim Tatum
ACC
Raleigh
N. C
Big Jim Tatum
University of Maryland
Atlantic Coast Conference
Tatum
Maryland
Oklahoma
Ex-Acrobat Rides $5932.20 Double At Pimlico Track
An ex-acrobat jockey Bernie Sorenson rode Toymaker to victory in race one and Advice in race two at Pimlico for a $5932.20 daily double. Toymaker paid $164 for a $2 bet and Advice paid $100.80. Sorenson, a Dane, came to this country four years ago with an acrobatic troupe.
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Baltimore
Pimlico
Bernie Sorenson
Toymaker
Advice
Maryland
School Bus Accidents Across 37 States in 1954
In 37 states with available reports, 4,454 school bus accidents occurred in 1954. Nineteen pupils were killed and 1,104 injured. States operated 110,857 vehicles and carried 6,590,086 pupils that year. Collision with other vehicles was the main accident type, while most deaths came from pupils struck crossing to or from buses.
Maryland Dedicates Spacious New Arena
Maryland dedicates a 12,000 seat indoor arena at College Park as part of a 3.25 million student activities building. After the ceremony, Maryland faces Virginia in an ACC game, with coach Bud Millikan optimistic the new facility will help attract top basketball talent and elevate the program.
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College Park
University of Maryland
Terps
Virginia
H. A
Bud” Millikan
Maryland
United States Joins Global Copyright Pact
The United States becomes the sixth nation to ratify the new Universal Copyright Convention joining a union linking its copyright system with global standards. This marks the first time the U S has aligned with world copyright rules among nations expected to total about forty.
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United States
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