Word: rices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From New York the contagion of prison revolt last week spread to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. It infected U. S. convicts with a fit of riotous fury which took six hours to cure. The prison temperature was 100°. Spanish rice was repeated at the noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards...
...release a little boy was cruelly murdered, then a little girl. On April 22, 1874 Horace Miller, 10, was found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison to pay a penalty not yet finished. A violent prisoner, always attempting escape, he was moved to Concord in 1880 in chains and handcuffs, was returned to Charlestown...
...well known horticulturist, and has improved the Hawaiian mango. He and his wife have spent some time in Tahiti, investigating the origin of the Taro, the native food of the Pacific Islanders. On the West Coast of the Pacific in China and Japan the native food is rice, a grain. On the East side the American aborigines used maize or Indian corn, also a grain, whereas we find the Pacific Islanders .using Taro, a root, which seems indicative of an entirely distinct racial origin. The youngest son, James Wilder, while at Harvard, introduced the Ukulele, and Hawaiian Music...
...Rice Lake, Wis., one J. F. Baskin last week offered $100 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of the person who has been cutting off the tails of the Baskin cows...
...Theodore Roosevelt the younger, hunting in Asia, grew a beard, as revealed in photographs brought home by his brother Kermit. Also, he wrote a 64-line religious poem, roughly approximating the Kipling manner, sent it to Sportswriter Grantland Rice, who published it in full on July 4 in his syndicated "Sportlight." Excerpts...