Rescuers were heartbroken when they realized why this homeless poodle refused their help

Jake Bequette’s service to his country began when he left his life as a professional football player and joined the 101st Airborne Division. He served in the military for three and a half years, but his service to his country, he says, is just beginning. “Today, I am announcing a run for the U.S. Senate in Arkansas,” Bequette said in an interview with The Daily Wire. “I’m born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. I’m a third generation Arkansas Razorback. I come from a football family. My grandfather, father, and uncle all played football at the University of Arkansas, and it was a lifelong dream of mine to play football for the Hogs and wear that Razorback on my helmet. And I was very blessed to be able to do so as a team captain and be on some great Razorback football teams.” Bequette, a Republican, will challenge current Arkansas Senator John Boozman (R-AR), who will be running for his third term in office. The general election is set for November 8, 2022. After retiring … [Read more...] about EXCLUSIVE: Former NFL Player Jake Bequette Announces Run For U.S. Senate In Arkansas | The Daily Wire

THE guard-house was, in fact, nothing but a shed in the middle of a stubblefield. It had been built for a cider-press last summer; but since Captain Dorr had gone into the army, his regiment had camped over half his plantation, and the shed was boarded up, with heavy wickets at either end, to hold whatever prisoners might fall into their hands from Floyd’s forces. It was a strong point for the Federal troops, his farm, — a sort of wedge in the Rebel Cheat counties of Western Virginia. Only one prisoner was in the guard-house now. The sentry, a raw boat-hand from Illinois, gaped incessantly at him through the bars, not sure if the “ Secesh ” were limbed and headed like other men ; but the November fog was so thick that he could discern nothing but a short, squat man, in brown clothes and white hat, heavily striding to and fro. A negro was crouching outside, his knees cuddled in his arms to keep warm: a field-hand, you could be sure from the face, a grisly patch of flabby black, with a … [Read more...] about John Lamar

FOR nearly a hundred years “ Butterfield’s ” was as well known in the town of Slumborough as the post-office, and almost as much frequented. Before the war the firm was represented by Joseph Butterfield, a most comfortably prosperous, mild man, who had succeeded to the honors of his house as hereditary grocer there. Nominally a grocer, but if any feminine stranger had chanced to be in pressing need of, say, a hoopskirt, of the kind in vogue then, she would probably have been directed to Butterfield’s, where she would have found some of these elegant and indispensable articles of dress swinging gracefully from hooks in the doorway of the store. For “ Hang the hoops in the do’ of the sto’ ” was one of the orders of the head of the firm, given as regularly as the day came and the “ sto’ ” was opened. Had any masculine stranger wished to provide himself with a book, it was to Butterfield’s that he would have been sent by almost anybody in the town, — either there or to the chemist’s ; and … [Read more...] about Butterfield & Co.: In Two Parts. Part One

BROMPTON was one of the earlier New England settlements. Its cemeteries contain numerous stones dating back almost to the middle of the seventeenth century, and the town celebrated its bicentennial years ago. Its first meeting-house was burned by Indians. In the Revolutionary era its citizens hurried away to the earliest engagements around Boston ; and of that period it preserves many memorials, notably two line old taverns, in which some of the most famous of the Continental officers are known to have lodged. But we are not now concerned with its history, and I come directly to the time, a decade or so before the civil war, when the town, after having been for more than a century and a half a small farming community, for which all necessary boot and shoe making and repairing were easily done by a few cobblers, was beginning to make shoes on a larger scale, for export. Brompton has neither water - power nor any of the other natural advantages which would have made it possible to … [Read more...] about A Massachusetts Shoe Town

Junior Kiwis rugby league player Manase Fainu has escaped conviction after pleading guilty to filming a sex act without consent. The matter was heard in Fairfield Local Court in Sydney on Tuesday, with Magistrate Richard Funston opting to hand Fainu a good behaviour bond. The magistrate took into consideration the fact that Fainu had no criminal record, was suffering from adjustment and anxiety disorders and had immediately deleted the recording. Fainu is considered one of the game's most promising youngsters. The 19-year-old, who played for the Junior Kiwis last year, made nine appearances for the Manly Sea Eagles this season after coming in as a replacement for injured rake Apisai Koroisau. The incident occurred on April 5, but Fainu was allowed to play in the NRL while the matter was before the courts. According to the police fact sheet, Fainu and the woman knew each other for three weeks and had met just once prior to the incident after communicating through Facebook and … [Read more...] about Junior Kiwis rep Manase Fainu avoids conviction in sex act filming case