The square dance fiddler's first concern is to carry a tune, but he must carry it loud enough to be heard over the noise of stampi...ng feet, the cries of the "caller," and the shouts of the dancers. When he fiddles, he "fiddles all over"; feet, hands, knees, head, and eyes are all busy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like other cities created overnight in the Outlet, Woodward acquired between noon and sunset of September 16, 1893, a population o...f five thousand; and that night a voluntary committee on law and order sent around the warning, "if you must shoot, shoot straight up!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the "two... volumes of common law" that every man carried strapped to his thighs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was... this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peer...ing through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religious fervor makes the devil a very real personage, and anything awe-inspiring or not easily understood is usually connected w...ith him. Perhaps this explains why, not only in the Ozarks but all over the State, his name crops up so frequently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first general store opened on the 'Cold Saturday' of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store's promoter..., recorded in a letter: 'Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets'; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account... of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Suffragists, hear this last call to a suffrage convention! The officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association hereby call their State auxiliaries, through their elected delegates, to meet in annual convention at Chicago, Congress Hotel, February 12th to 18th, inclusive. In other days our members and friends have been summoned to annual conventions to disseminate the propaganda for their common cause, to cheer and encourage each other, to strengthen their organized influence, to counsel as to ways and means of insuring further progress. At this time they are called to rejoice that the struggle is over, the aim achieved and the women of the nation about to enter into the enjoyment of their hard-earned political liberty. Of all the conventions held within the past fifty-one years, this will prove the most momentous. Few people live to see the actual and final realization of hopes to which they have devoted their lives. That privilege is ours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The candidate tells us we are the "backbone of the State," and we know that it is true, not because we are possessed of certain en...dowed virtues, but because we are a majority and have the vote.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He believes without reservation that Kentucky is the garden spot of the world, and is ready to dispute with anyone who questions h...is claim. In his enthusiasm for his State he compares with the Methodist preacher whom Timothy Flint heard tell a congregation that "Heaven is a Kentucky of a place."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »