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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1908
Page
23
Vincenzo Placi recalls a Naples circus visit where a gaunt lioness, with intense yellow eyes, draws his attention as a cub nears the bars. He watches the animal’s restrained maternal distress amid a harsh show, ending with an impending, disturbing finale.
A vivid account of a lioness and her cub starving and dying in a circus cage. The keeper feeds meat with a pole, the cub chokes on it, and the lioness responds with a ferocious attack until the crowd flees. The observer laments human cruelty and the mother’s despair.
A boy named John lives alone on a frontier ranch with his horse Nimble Foot and cow Brindle. When four Indians capture Nimble Foot and threaten John, Black Feather helps by distracting the attackers. John escapes with Nimble Foot to safety at dawn.
A playful note about a blue bottle fly named Billy Buzzing loudly signals spring. The insect buzzes around windows ears and work spaces, stubbornly persisting through mornings and days, a comic persistent nuisance.
The piece traces the benediction after sneezing to St. Gregory and a silence marking a fatal symptom, but cites Aristotle and Thucydides noting sneezing as a crisis sign in Greek and Athenian plagues. It notes Roman and native Indian parallels and questions the persistence of such customs.
A playful verse contrasts Miss Angeline Cordelia Ella O Flynn’s thrift with outward show. It notes she saves pennies first for inner qualities, then for clothes and trinkets, a trait many admire in youth.
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