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...three of the contested measures held to their stand, defeated amendments to strike out the contested provisions, overrode a determined filibuster. The opponents of the measure had only one success. They succeeded in adding a provision for a six-foot channel in the Missouri River from Kansas City to Sioux City, 400 miles. As the bill was taken up, it carried appropriations of $36,000,000. With the added project it may cost the Government from $52,000,000 to $73,000,000. The reason they favored the Missouri project was to make the bill so cumbersome as to defeat...
...creams, a medal presented him by Albert of Belgium as thanks for taking a strong Allied stand in the Cincinnati Post in defiance of his many pro-German readers; John B. Perkins, whose Journal has nine editions daily in one of the country's largest butter-and-egg centres, Sioux City, la.; E. B. Stahlman, owner of the Nashville, Tenn., Banner, who had lived 83 years and seen his grandson become his managing director...
...five-cent piece of 1913 bears the head of Chief Iron Tail of the Sioux tribe, executed by Artist Fraser...
...Colonel Winship could bear delay with equanimity, Major General Robert Lee Howze, president of the Court could not. He is a disciplinarian of the first water. Way back in '91 he got the Congressional Medal of Honor for licking a crowd of Sioux in South Dakota. This week he proceeded to rake the counsel over the coals. The Trial Judge Advocates explained that they had not known until the day before what witnesses the defense wished to call...
What was this name which she could not remember? The public soon found it out. Her name was Fraud, Charlatanism, Trickery, Guile, Deceit. She, one Alma Sioux Scarberry, employee of the New York Daily Mirror (Hearst), had been "planted" to play her role as a publicity stunt. The Daily Mirror was about to publish a serial novel by Elinor Glyn relating the adventures of the vanished British woman, Miss Levy. Hence the carefully arranged passport pictures, the initials, the English money, in the fraud's vanity-case. Hence the dastardly clever reference to Elinor Glyn. Next day the Mirror publicly...