Northern Lights Rescue on Tongue River Bluff
On a moonlit night at a bluffed refuge above the Tongue river Colonel Gray and his besieged garrison face an expected dawn attack. Water runs dry yet hope persists as Starlight’s mercy and a flag of truce falter, until Crook’s relief and Horton’s dispatch seal a dramatic rescue and reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tongue River
Gray
Horton
Crook
Colonel Gray
Florence
Dorothy
Helen
Dave
Higgs
Wallace
Charlie
Hortone
Dare
Leutenant
Helen Dare
Iron Nation
Little Big Horn
Swiftwind
Paradise
Wallace Gray
Charlie Sherwood
Fort Terry
Florence Sherwood
Dorothy Dunbar
Dan Horton
John Swiftwind
Money Crisis of 1907 on Wall Street and Trust Reform
In May 1901 a Wall Street panic foreshadowed broader trouble as crowds demanded deposits from the Trust Company of America. The piece notes Grant and the Clearing House’s role in stabilizing banks, cites 1873 and 1878 lessons, and argues for extending Clearing House powers to trust institutions to curb risky banking and require proper reserve funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Pacific
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Trust Company of America
Metropolitan Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
General Grant
New York
Union League Club
Clearing House Association
Washington
New York City
Grant
Frederick D. Tappen
Knickerbocker Trust
Holland
Philadelphia
Farmers Union Origin and Rise to Power in America
O. P. Pyle summarizes the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America, founded in 1902 in Texas by Newt Gresham and nine others. The piece details its growth to 1.5 million members, its goals to fix farm prices via warehouses and direct trade, and recent conferences with cotton manufacturers in Washington Vienna and Atlanta to eliminate middlemen and establish stable prices for cotton, wheat, and corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Farmers’ Educational and Cooperative Union of America
State of
Texas
Southwest
Northwest
Newt Gresham
Point
Rains County
Tex
Farmers
Ife
Country Weekly
Alabama
Farmers’ Union
Farmers’ National Union
Little Rock
Ark
Gresham
Southland
Mr. Gresham
W. S. Sisk
C. H. Rodes
T. W. Donaldson
T. J. Pound
Jesse Adams
Lee Seamster
J. 8. Turner
W. T. Cochran
J. B. Morris
Order
South
New York Cotton Exchange
Chicago Grain Exchange
Iowa
National Union
Europe
Washington ‘City
Vienna
Austria
Atlanta
Manchester
England
Lowell
Mass
P. Pyle
National Co-operator
Dallas
Venice the City of Canals and Its Island Network
Venice sits on a lagoon of 70 to 80 islands separated by canals and bridged by over 300 spans. The Grand Canal and Rialto Bridge are central, with gondolas serving as main traffic and land routes via bridges. The flounder is noted as an industrious fish laying seven million eggs yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Europe
Isolda de Rialto
Rialto
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. D. Hall
Starlight
Colonel Grey
Redskin Deputation
Young Sherwood
Land
Roosevelt
Taft
Cortelyou
Cleveland
George B. Cortelyou
Farmers Union IN Review
Atlanta Constitution
National Congress
Ben L. Griffin
Conway
Campbell Russell
Hereford
Oklo
R. F. Duckworth
Barnesville
Charlies S. Barrett
Atwater
J. E. Montgomery
Gleason
Tenn
R. H. McCullock
Bebe
W. A. Morris
Sulligent
Ala
T. M. Jeffords
Elgin
Okla
W. S. Miller
Lake Creek
I. N. McCollister
Many, la
L. S. Wilson
Eden, Miss
City OF
Canals
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