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...afternoon. Vain, she did not suspect that d'Astier came only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon his own splendid sexual virility, Mrs. Weatherby preferred not to mention for reasons...
...whole G. 0. P. affiliated itself with the Kaw & Osage tribes through Nominee Curtis. Notable among individual joinings this season was an event last week in Wisconsin. Sol Levitan, Jew, the State Treasurer, became Tchay-Ska-Kah, or Der Weisser Bock, or White Deer, a chief in the Winnebago tribe...
Squatted in teepees, wagons, automobiles, or lounging through the streets of Lawrence, were many famed chiefs and their followers- Chief Bacon Rind and his Osages, John Quapaw, and his Quapaws, White Buffalo (with pink ribbons in his albino locks) and his Cheyennes; many a Comanche, Arapahoe, Creek, Sioux, Winnebago, Ute, Pueblo, Navajo-all to the number of 1,500. Despite the intellectual salutation of Mr. White Calf, the assemblage did not have the air of a racial group gathered around their school as around a centre of sweetness and light. Prime upon the program were a buffalo barbecue and dancing...
There was a great parade of the buddies. In it marched General Charles G. Dawes, with the Evanston contingent, refusing to sit on the reviewing stand. There was a public marriage of a post commander from Winnebago, on a platform before the grandstand on the State fair grounds. Eighteen chaplains, a band of "3,700 pieces," a spotlight, a freight-car load of wedding presents and 50,000 spectators took part...
Frank Beaver, left end, is 22 years old, weighs 139 pounds, and stands 5 feet 7 inches. This is his third year on the team and he also holds the school record for the hundred yard dash. Beaver is a Winnebago...