Panther in Fierce Battle In Home on Return
In East Texas near Marble Falls a widow Mrs Caione and her two children faced a panther that entered their single room dwelling after a window was broken. The dead father’s sword, hanging on the wall, was seized to defend against the beast, who was slain after the daughter delivered the decisive blow. The family survived with minor injuries and resumed their supper.
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Marble Falls
Estern
Texas
Caione
Devil River
Sdow
Ranger
Lore Star Republic
Mrs. Calone
Tam
Fanny
Girl's Garter Saves Life Of A Woodman
Hig Bill Long, a woodsman and guide, was shot in the leg during a hunt with Miss Martha George of Roxbury. She improvised a tourniquet from her garter after an accidental second shot by Long. She applied first aid, stopped the bleeding, and waited for help, with Long later treated by a physician and expected to recover.
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Patten
Hig Bill’ Long
Misa Martha George
Roxbury
Mass
Miss George
Horace W
Bill
Myr
Pine Forks
George
Long
Mr. George
Hugo Accrued 260000 From Six Book Sales
Report states author Hugo earned two hundred sixty thousand dollars from the sale of six books. The figure highlights strong performance across multiple titles and reflects a successful publishing run.
Maeden Battles With Bats In San Antonio Hotel
Miss Alice L. Earle of South Norwalk Conn faced a midnight attack by 61 bloodsucking bats in a San Antonio hotel room. She fled the bed with a covering tied around her head, fainted in her maid’s arms, and was later calmed as attendants killed the colony at dawn.
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Norwalk
Conn
Alice L. Earle
Miss Earle
San Antonio
Tex
In Honor of a Friend Dinner Party Advice
Rebecca counsels embracing hospitality as a joy not dread and suggests a dinner with clear soup canapes meat two vegetables salad and dessert plus coffee and cordials. She notes conversation, cards, dancing, costume parties and guessing contests as simple entertainments for congenial guests.
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Rebecca
Allike
Belts that fit the skirt and sleeve shaping tips
A fashion note explains belts should be integral to tailored skirts with matching fabric belts or the best substitutes like silk braids or satin belts. It warns against mismatched belts and stresses harmony with the gown. Sleeves for shirtwaists grow trimmer at the top, with fullness kept at the sides and long cuffs.
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Belrdom
Kim
Useful Work-Basket Makes Pretty Bazaar Item
Decorative lype work-basket offered as a ready sale item for bazaars. Any small rush or wicker basket can be used if strong. Inside silk lined in bright color, lining extends above edge to form a bag bound with silk braid and tied with a ribbon. A larger version would make a practical present for a mother.
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Bazars
Brongon's patent safety shoe pitch ends in a prank
A bragging salesman's claim of a safety shoe that uses ashes to melt ice leads to a comical failure as a boy trips a bystander. The scene unfolds with a shoe dealer and a heckling passerby, while humorous dialogue from Leslie Thomas and Cincinnati Commercial Tribune is tucked in as colorful aside.
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Brongon
Profitable Investment and the Ostrich Farm Tale
The postmaster of Bacon Ridge recalls Jeff Weatherby buying an ostrich from a circus and starting an ostrich farm. The bird died, but its stomach yielded hogs shoes belts rivets and screws, leading Weatherby to open a blacksmith shop. The exchange ends with a humorous quip about the loss.
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Yeas
Bacon Ridge
Jeff Weatherby
Chicago Daily News
A Gentle Reminder
A brief anecdote describes Mr Suburbanite storing a snow shovel and reacting to an unseen danger. He trips in a dark basement, hears a nerve tearing rattle and click, then bolts up the cellar stairs as a lawn mower seems set to pursue him. The narration conveys a tense, comic escape moment by a judge narrator.
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Mr. Suburbanite
Ambition and Love Across Generations
A clipped exchange contrasts desire and restraint as a speaker vows to lure a partner home while a male voice acknowledges truth in words. A nursemaid-like remark about a tailor-made automobile and a light jab at size punctuate tabloid style humor from Chicago Record-Herald and Chicago Journal.
A Pessimistic View Do you believe in leap year proposals
A Baltimore American quip questions belief in leap year proposals. The speaker ponders whether such schemes are prudent or merely chances taken in hope. The tone is skeptical and reflective.
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Baltimore
Child Bets Dad On City Size Riddle
A dialogue between a son and father centers on a playful challenge about whether New York is twice as large as London. The boy stakes a dollar if his statement proves false, prompting lighthearted doubt and a warning against gambling. The judge tone finishes the exchange.
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New York
London
Crafty Girl Draws Heart Over Blots in Love Letter
In this humorous snippet, a girl writes a love letter and covers uncertain spellings with blots. Her friend questions if the beau will notice, but the girl explains she draws hearts around the blots so he will think each blot is a kiss. Source notes the quip as seen in a Chicago Daily.
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Chicago Daily News
Adding a Third Sin in a Parish Dispute
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a parishioner confessing neglect of church duties due to both omission and commission. Pastor Goodman questions Brother Baxslide about church attendance and their use of Sundays and weekdays.
The Limited Inn Ghost Part At Opera House
A late drummer asks for a bed sheet at The Limited Inn. The proprietor of the One Horse inn says a visiting actor borrowed it to portray a ghost at the opera house in a Chicago Daily News item.
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Pardner
One Horse Inn
Opera
Chicago Daily News
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Bobby
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Leslie Thomas
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