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...crimes cannot be neatly dovetailed into the law. Anna Laura Lowe committed no crime when in 1920 she married an ancient, incompetent Creek Indian named Jackson Barnett. It was no crime for her to hire lawyers, who successfully induced Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles H. Burke to release $1,100,000 of her husband's royalty oil riches for distribution to herself and the American Baptist Home Mission Society (TIME...
...were some sharp-eyed men, friends of the white woman's, at the ceremony. After it they shook their heads dubiously. The Kansas marriage laws relating to Indians might be tricky, they said. So the sharp-eyed men and the woman-he had learned her name now: Anna Laura Lowe-took Jackson Barnett to Independence, Mo., and had the marriage performed a second time. That struck Jackson as unfair. He had not cared much about getting married once. Twice was much big nuisance, too much...
...Negro was soon captured. He sought shelter in the home of his brother. Oddly, the brother telephoned one Laura May Keiler, plantation owner, told her to "come and get Charlie." She came. She found Charlie. He had a Winchester rifle and a pistol; she had a shotgun. "Put those down, Charlie," she said. He put them down, surrendered, was turned over to National Guardsmen, called out by Mississippi's Governor Bilbo...
...Fetcher, Jr. '31 Diana Miss Bentrice Clough Genvieve Mis Helen Streeter La Soeur de Charite Miss Isablla Grandin Gringoire Louis XI Y. H. Buhler '20 Plerre Gringoire W. B. Cowen, Jr. '29 Simon-Fournier W. D. Carter '31 Olivier-let-Daim F. G. Shaw, Jr. '31 Loyse Miss Laura Robbins Nicole Audry Miss Helen Streeter
...Carter '31 L'Oncle E. S. Fetcher '31 La Jeune Fille Amee Beatrice Clough La Jeune Fille Cadette Helen Streeter Gringoire Louis XI Y. H. Buhler '20 Gringoire W. B. Cowen Jr. '29 Olivier-le-daim F. G. Shaw '31 Simon Fournier W. D. Carter '31 Loyse Laura Robbins Nicole Andrey Helen Streeter