We have by now all read about bad mortgages, assets both illiquid and toxic, weapons of financial destruction (WFD), credit-default swaps, derivatives, and other gambling schemes devised by lawyers, financial wizards, and industry lobbyists far …
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There’ll always be ‘Hope in Kansas’
Abilene Recorder Chronicle, KS - 12 minutes ago Joachim Neimier lived on the west branch of Turkey Creek, homesteading in 1871. He once walked the six miles to Elmo when feeling ill, Dr. Klingberg told … |
This was the bold block subheading of the Hope Dispatch, added by Chet Bowline during the 31 years he owned and published the weekly paper from 1927-58. Chet was what you’d envision as a typical early newspaper publisher. Short, a little heavy set …
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MOTHERS DOWN-HOME COUNTRY LORE
Mother Earth News, KS - 2 hours ago … recycling rubber tires into ducks’ nests. by NANCY BUBEL If every one of today’s homesteading families has learned as much from their rural neighbors as … |
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Backwoods refuge
TheChronicleHerald.ca, Canada - 2 hours ago By SANDRA PHINNEY THE FIRST NIGHT John Ramessar hunkered down in an old log cabin at Birchdale, he knew he was in a very remote part of Southwest Nova … |
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Community Agriculture Alliance: Whose water is it?
Steamboat Pilot, CO - 26 minutes ago … evolve as early as 1897, when Congress adopted the National Forest Organic Act, which prohibited further homesteading and sale of forested watersheds. … |
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As storm rolled in, inmate sneaked out
Houston Chronicle, United States - 1 hour ago Hunkered down in the rustic log cabin he built by hand deep in the woods of Liberty County, Marlow Wayne Reynolds earned a reputation as a hard-drinking, … |
The Yampa River, from its beginnings in the rugged Flat Tops Wilderness Area to its convergence with the Green River in the desert region of the Colorado-Utah border, often is referred to as the life-blood of the community, as well as many …
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MR., MRS. JEFFREY A. ROY nee Kaylin J. Mayausky
The Republican - MassLive.com, MA - 3 hours ago … in a June 28 ceremony at Trinity United Methodist Church in Springfield, followed by a reception at the Log Cabin Banquet and Meeting House, Holyoke. … |
I first remember hearing the Y-word in ’83, when I was living in the East Village, sharing an apartment with my best friend while working on my first novel and paying the bills as a slush-pile reader at Random House. I was enjoying a hung-over …