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Last week Dr. Nininger learnedly described operations on a meteoritic site in Kiowa County. Kansas, which he believes to be the world's first complete excavation of a meteorite crater. Some 300,000 separate fragments were recovered there, ranging from 85 Ib. down to tiny grains. Assistant Secretary of the Society for Research on Meteorites is Dr. Nininger's wife, Addie Delp Nininger...
...Kiowa Indians from Oklahoma, complete with feathers and leg bells, wound through snake dances, war dances, love dances. Chief Cozad. 73, played an Indian flute...
...Upon discovering eight new cases of cerebrospinal meningitis in Kiowa County, Okla. and deciding that ten recent deaths there were probably due to that disease, Health Officer James Luther Adams last week slapped a thoroughgoing quarantine upon the county's 30,000 residents. No one was allowed to go to work, school, church. Closed were all stores except drugstores and groceries. The Hobart Democrat-Chief suspended publication. When businessmen complained, Dr. Adams promised to lift the quarantine after the five-day incubation period of cerebrospinal meningitis had elapsed...
...Kansas has been "meteorite-conscious" for nearly half a century. In 1885 a farmer named Kimberly and his wife moved to a farm in Kiowa County. They found curious black stones used for weighting haystacks, rain-barrel covers and dugout roofs, for plugging gaps in pigpens. Mrs. Kimberly, who in childhood had been shown a meteorite by a teacher, told her husband what the black stones were. He snorted. Despite his gibes and those of the neighborhood, Mrs. Kimberly started collecting the meteorites. For five years she wrote to scientists, met discouraging skepticism. Finally an optimistic savant arrived, examined...
...grave. Her second husband was a humorous, bumbling fraud who preached a little (Carry used to interrupt his sermons), occasionally printed a newspaper, claimed the "brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog at the feet of Jesus Christ, barkin' and bitin' at what...