Mule Etiquette and Darktown Matinee Courtroom Heat
In a Darktown police matinee Judge Briles questions mule care, a drumbeat of racial patter and slang. Sherry Holman fights with his mule over bathing. Will Roder admits a dirk for toothpicking. Sarah Higgins blows bubbles and sparks a fight. Annabel Partee admits brick throwing for lawn tennis practice, all leading to fines and warnings.
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Briles
Recorder Broyles
Sherry Holman
Sherry
Perlice
Wil Roder
Hell's Half Acre
Jedge
Will
Snake Root Alley
Dirk
Dirks
Arkansas
Sarah Higgins
Belle
Broyles
Sarah
Annabel Partee
Annabel
Satterdy
Jedge Briles
Old Tige the Atlanta Police Horse With a Worthy Record
The veteran horse Old Tige has served sixteen years pulling a patrol wagon in Atlanta. He has hauled thousands of prisoners, chased burglars, raced to fires, and stood amid gunfire during riots. Named after a police chief and a Confederate general, he remains a favored mascot and may retire on a pension after long service.
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Tige
Atlanta
Pittsburg
Captain English
Abderaon
Old Tige
Union
Flanagan
Sbv
Eges
Eight Sheds House Ten Thousand Pigeons At Los Angeles Ranch
Pearson's Magazine describes a Los Angeles pigeon ranch where eight frame sheds shelter about 10 000 pigeons. The area uses empty gasoline can walls with wooden apertures, fruit boxes, and trains dogs at each end to deter thieves. Disease and rats reduce the flock daily while some young birds perish away from the nest.
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Pearson's Magazine
Arroyo Beco
Crary
Los Angeles
Sierra Madre Mountains
Police Matron recounts year in charge of city prison
Police Matron Bohne fel recalls her twelve months as warden of white female prisoners at the barracks. She describes tough cases, women needing help, deserted wives, and the challenge of reform versus reality. She notes securing work for about thirty women while turning away over a hundred who returned to vice. She shares stories of mothers, doorstep babies, and a labor of mercy amid city life in Atlanta.
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Bohnefeld
Bohnefela
Police Department
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Dranng
How Belgians Prayed to St. Antony
Paris Steele recounts a Ghent sermon where villagers placed coins and petitions in two church chests. One box held 200 paper slips demanding universal suffrage, while the other remained empty. The scene created clerical politics tension as press and church factions faced embarrassment.
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St. Antony
Paris
Steele
Ghent
St. Antony of Padua
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HS . Mule
Will's
Parktow
Krennis
Stein-Bloch Famous Clothing
Stein-Bloch
Whitebail
Fancy Elgin
Sutter
Havemeyer
Pierre M. Bealer
Ser
Whitehall Street
Mall
Harmless
Ve .G
Jackson H
Ted
Beachers
Tto
Walker Street
Walton Street
Wammoth Pigeon Ranch
Polisch
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