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vHT-lieClip.tog I Giu£at Citv and Uttlk Wool.—It Jfi lt;loi,,t f,^Gn happen flint I lie entire Fire Department rnslies out to greet a returning citizen after an absence of a low weeks; but this Ji.I happen on *nday even in lust-aiul Ibis is how it happened. Unr renders will Jrcinciii-•'*-*r the classic name of John Norman -not Jn. or u 9 tf juuipian liill, but the Jiero of tlu* |K-er garden light a short tone since; how John commenced Uml row; how he was arrested; how he was lined one hundred dollars, hut let oil provided he would vamoose the town, instantly and forever. John accepted I he fdlernalivn of going to jail or “lighting out”—and he Jit out ” On J'riday last, however, lie returned, and getting outside ur*ll the beer and benzine lie could encompass, went to the honsc where his wife was living and gave expression to his afl'eelion fur the partner of his bosom by gently pnlling a few iislfull3 of hair out of her head, kimdyea ness lag her about the eyes withjids lilt hammer, and such oilier liltlo lovorlikc pleasantries; whereupon she yelled murder ! murder!! Some of the neighbors yelled murder, the Bohemian citizens in thcvieinily took up the cry. but got it in such bad English that by the time it got uptown it was transmogrified into lire! lire! Of course the lire bell rang and of course the fire boys were out m masse with their usual promptitude, ran down street with their customary alacrity, and arrived at the supposed location of the conflagration to find Norman skinning out for donr lire. The firemen didn’t get in position soon enough to ploy upon the ropid.y retiring benedict, but the policemen kept dose on to his heels.nd were aboutjto nnb him, when lie plunged into llic river. The pursuers didn’t feel it theirduty to inn into the water a A or him, so lie uinde good bis escape—and lhai’s how John Norman's return io Cedar liipids was honored by the turning oat of the Fire Department.lla iIKInscat
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Cedar Rapids Times
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 27, 1874
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