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The Stuart Hornets and Lady Hornets both punched their tickets to the OSSAA Class B State Tournaments. The fifth- ranked Lady Hornets (24-10) beat Oilton 8-0 and Earlsboro twice 11-1 & 9-1 to secure their berth at State. The Lady Hornets will play at Devon Park (formerly Hall of Fame) on Thursday, October 9th. The third-ranked Hornets (22-10) beat Boswell 16-2 and Moss 9-1. The Hornets play Thursday, October 9th.
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Juanita Kidd Stout was an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989. She had previously operated a private legal practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Triggered by opposition to World War I and the draft, this tenant farmers’ revolt broke out in three counties along Oklahoma’s South Canadian River inAugust 1917. While antiwar sentiments fueled the Green Corn Rebellion, it grew from long-standing grievances many tenants held against local landowners, businessmen, and state and local authorities. The farmers were particularly angered over the growing control of land by small numbers of wealthy landholders who often resorted to rampant land speculation and outright fraud to obtain property. Speculation and falling crop prices had by 1917 forced over half of Oklahoma’s farmers into tenancy. As a result, many tenants and small landowners joined the state’s Socialist Party and affiliated
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