Word: clarks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martha Clark, 13, left her crutches on the grave...
...Vasquez Coronado. who in 1541, looking for El Dorado, discovered Nebraska; Indians, led by Crow Chief Max Big Man; prairie schooners; oxcarts; stage coaches; a Mormon handcart which had been trundled across Nebraska by foot-sore Mormons So years before. In a stage coach rode the original "Deadwood Dick" Clark, now 83, proudly wearing his many-notched horse pistol, and the original "Poker Alice" Tubbs, now 76. smoking her big black cigar. Eleven appropriately furnished floats represented "The Parade of Nations." On a twelfth float was a large kettle decked with flags-"The Melting Pot." Beside...
...maidens took the parts of stars, seas, land, flowers. Girls in white garments were the Glacier. Girls in bulky costumes typified Solid Land. In Act II a band of Sioux chased a band of Pawnees, then performed a Sun Dance. Next came Spanish conquistadors, French Jesuits, Scouts Lewis and Clark, frontiersmen, Stephen A. Douglas. To end the pageant all joined in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and saluting the flag...
...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
...Glidden, Jr '31 defeated Francis Blake '32, 13-11, 45-6, 15-9; P. H. Clark, Jr. '30, defeated M. D. Wheelock '31. 17-14, 9-13, 15-11; E. M. Shelton, Jr. '30 defeated W. J. Govan, Jr. '32, 15-5, 15-4; A. W. Paterson Jr. '32 defeated P. J. Mckinnon '30 3 to '0; J. L. Ware '30 defeated C. H. Stockton '32; 18-17, 13-13, 10-15, 9-15, 13-12; F. O. Canfield '32 defeated J. C. Howe, Jr. 31, 16-13, 15-8, 10-15, 16-14; C. H. Kawakami '30 defeated...