The Speed Demon Rules Endangerment and Odd Tales
A chaotic collage reflects on speed dangers from June traffic fatalities to derailed brains and a mock broker tale. It cites Department of Public Safety figures showing 142 fatal accidents causing 190 deaths, notes noncollision wrecks from speeding, and comments on risky driving. The piece threads in satirical asides about intelligence lobes, a Chicago Daily News summary, and a list of the seven wonders with aging details.
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SPEED
Department of Public Safety
Demon Speed
Amocition
Ward C. Halsted
Chicago
Halsteed
Hia Wide
Monarch Sepor III Crowned Before Birth in Persia
Col Mer's Weekly notes Sepor III King of Persia reigned 300 to 381. After his father's death the country, eager for a ruler, crowned him three days before his birth by placing the royal circlet on his cradle.
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Eign
Sepor III
Persia
Col- Mer
Weekly
Sepor
Warden Captures Bear But Loses His Pants
A warden reportedly sought to grab a bear by the nape, triggering a scuffle that left him stripped as the bear fought back, turning the pursuit into a chaotic escape. The incident involves a police party and the bear as the central event.
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Warden
Bear
Fragmented Rural Quotes and Dialect Humor
A patchwork of rural vignettes and dialect humor. A dairyman joke about butter branding, a youthful promise about school money, a country boy steering a car toward a distant town, a tired motorist’s car repair misadventure, a quiet domestic planning scene, and a Kentucky traveler exchange. The piece relies on phonetic speech and local色 color to convey small town life.
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M. Bennett Awor
Ta. Ob. Woop Soles
Ouiside County
Saalel
Frank Knox
Chicago Daily News
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United States
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Palestine
Babylon
B.C
Diane
Ryheous
Zeus
Olympus
Rhodes
Phares
Alexandria
Artemisia
Cheops
Cnn
John Jereb Astor
Ym Henry Astor
Newport
B. I
William Neary
Ble God
Bilen Tuck French
By Edwin Finch
Aves Unie
Tommy
Senithville
Blastteckty of
Bidets
Mr. Blair
Mrs. Blair
Reed
Luten
Kentucky
Lbreck
M. L. Hopson
Alpion
Broweter County
Foams
Alan R. Fraser
A. M. Turney
Attornet-At-Law Ome
Meliead Water Bid
Alor
Texas
May Alt Commmnalor
Law Cbee Conethonss
A. Pucr Tekab
Real Estate Loans
Ranch and Cry Property
Trans-Pecos
Mees
Otis Turner
Pee Sr
J.W. Shepperd
Big Bead Abstract Co
Mare
Mra. Mac M
Ament
Ren Kates
Bridgend, Wie
Matt Smith
Ee Yi Foods
Burke’s Food Store
Fifth Street
First National Bank
Alying, Texas
G.B. Crawford
Plymouth
Alpine-Motor CO
OCO
General Auto
Colden
Big Bend Feed Co
Orient Dairy Mik Mas Boon Property
T. A. Beard
Tose Brealth and
Ens
Ree
Poihiven
Best Wade
G. K. Langema
Fettenage Sas
Mildred Witwer
W. G. Fielorr McMadeas
Manet
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