Nervous Lions and a Circus Training Tale
Narrator recounts handling nervous big cats including Jennie the tiger and lions Sasha and Beauty. He recalls incidents of seat clashes, dangerous escapes, and attempts to train wary animals while balancing circus schedules and personal risk. He notes traits of nervousness, aim to prove arena theory, and the need for control amid dangerous acts.
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Sasha
Beauty
Sells Floto Circus
John Helliott
Sells Floto
Nero the arena boss in Clyde Beatty tale
In a feature on the arena life, Nero the boss lion is praised as sporting and philosophical. He avoids needless fights, dispatching insolent cubs with a paw when necessary, while keeping strict control to prevent swollen heads among forty lions and tigers. The piece also notes fan mail to Beatty and a crime report of two men siphoning gasoline from a parked car on Second Avenue.
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Sascha
Sasha
Beauty
Sashha
Rosie
Venus
Sasca
Nero
Arena
Lions
Tigers
Second Avenue
Market price list for eggs vegetables and poultry
A shopper friendly list shows mixed eggs per case, sweet potatoes per pound, butter and produce by the dozen or pound with prices ranging from 5 to 80 cents. Fresh spinach and green peas, beans, cabbage, dried peas, peanuts, and home grown lettuce are priced, plus dressed poultry and livestock rates for hogs cattle and fowl.
Birmingham Market Prices and Shipments Report
Market report from Birmingham shows hay prices firm to unchanged with light receipts and fair demand. Poultry and eggs steady with varied prices for hens, eggs, fryers, and ducks. butter fat delivered with mild declines. Grain and cattle markets include corn and oats steady, beef and dairy cattle quotes, calves and yearlings priced, hogs listed with weight-based ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham Johnson
U. S
Timothy U
Birmingham
Gasoline theft cases arraigned in police court
Eight whites and three blacks were arraigned in police court this morning and fined for drinking fighting disorderly conduct driving while drunk and prohibition violations. Two whites faced petty larceny charges after officers found two young men near Central Methodist Church with a large gas container.
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Central Methodist Church
Mrs Price Improvement Reported From Illness
Mrs. G. E. Price of Ninth Avenue West has shown some improvement today after a severe bout with influenza.
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G. E. Price
Ninth Avenue, West
Chevrolet sales hit record July with 67 820 units
H. J. Klingler announces Chevrolet dealers delivered 67 820 new cars and trucks in July, a 155 percent rise from last July and the second highest monthly total this year. June remains above it, with strong August prospects and year-to-date totals of 372,772 versus 279,772 last year.
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Chevrolet
H. J. Klingler
Klingler
Mr. Klingler
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Clyde Beatty
Edward Anthony
Jennie
Nel- He
Nellie
Alice
Ed Anthony
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Trwilliams
Ste
Pat
Battle Creek
Hargrove & Murdock
Dad
Harnees
Southern Telephone and Telegraph
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Cresn
Per Aozen
The
Alabama Depada of Agriculture & Industries
Goodrich
Rauber
Silvertown
Goodrich Company
Clapton
Decatur Ice Crea
U.S
Roosevelt
E, W. Kennedy
Mgr
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