Retired farmer's town plagued by mortgage collapse and tragedy
In a Burlington Hawkeye excerpt, Philip Vonderdonk sinks under debt after mortgaging his farms and town house, selling stock and the bridge. his wife laments while eleven men drag him to death as punishment for failure to repay.
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Burdette
Burlington
Big Island
Sixth Street
Philip
Main
Express
Chicago
Valley Street
Richard
Georgia
Decatur County
Wiley Johnston
Susan
Jane Williams
Mastox O' Neal
L. Harnett
Marshall House
Harnett House
Savannah
Riddle
Traveling Terror and editor clash in a chaotic Salt Lake scene
The piece recounts a chaotic encounter as Tornado Tom the Texas Terror demands a retraction from a Salt Lake editor who retorts with a tirade about past crimes. Interspersed are comic vignettes of policemen, a tall man and a bull dog pranks, and a graveyard anecdote about a Jewish girl preferring kisses.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Tornado Tom
Texas
Shorty Barnes
Bowery
New York
Kentucky
Omaha
Humorous Bits From A Bygone Paper Wardrobe
A collage of jokes and witticisms mixing puns about damsels, soldiers of fortune, music, editors, and social quirks. References swirl to Patti, Patti gone in, a Danish novelist Bjorn Bjornson, and a Baltimore Sun item, with light jabs at marriages, hats, and vanity.
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Ude Og Hjemme
Bjorn Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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Twilight
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Shotwell
Charles C. Bush
Colquitt, GA
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RE. Johnson
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M, O'Neal
McGill & O'Neal
Attorneys At Law
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Decatur
Sijoining
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Adm
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Powell & McNair
Rempesate
D. Fearnen
Drameids
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