Bear slays bear hunter with club in West Virginia incident
A West Virginia tale relays how Benjamin Whetzel hunted a sheep-eating bear. After his gun misfired the hunter used a nearby club, killing Br’er Bruin at close range. The incident, reported by the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph, underscores unreliability of weapons in certain encounters.
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Jessica
Abe
Berlin
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Benjamin Whetzel
West Virginia
Whetzel
Bret Bruin
Nimrod
Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph
Mary Williams Confesses Feelings in Riverside Car Scene
In a reflective exchange, Radcliffe Warren debates marriage with Mary Williams amid gossip about an eighteen year old and a tenacious love for the girl. Mary admits she cares for a man who may be too old, proposing she could urge him to marry, while Rad questions his own readiness and the social push to wed.
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Radcliffe
Cairo
Howland
Rad
Chandler
Mary
Europe
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Harding
Addison
Radcliffe Warren
Mary Williams
The
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War costs through 1914 far exceed earlier conflicts
A French economist Edmond Thery estimates that Europe’s war expenditures from 1800 to August 1914 reached about 65 billion francs placing the present conflict far above past wars. He cites major costs in Napoleonic wars Crimean war Mexican hostilities and others across Europe and Asia.
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Napoleon
France
Republic
Thery
Great Britain
Austria
Turkey
Sardinia
Italy
Prussia
Denmark
Germany
Russia
Japan
Christmas Mischief Ends in Coal Bin Misadventure
Henry Carruthers agrees to play Santa for the Jones family and their scheme to prank the Williamses. The plan collapses when the coal chute trapdoors him into a coal bin, delaying his return and leaving the house to wonder at the sudden absence.
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Brenry
Jones
Henry Carruthers
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Williams
Joneses
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