That Skinner 80 Hero on a Mercy Mission
A boy named Humpy Skinner escorts bad news to a bereaved widow after a painter on Beech Street breaks a leg. Along the way a Watkids boy advises calm, moral heroism, urging careful delivery of misfortune to the grieving spouse. The tale unfolds with misdirections as Humpy seeks the McGuire family to inform them of the accident.
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Trir
Ninth Street
Watkids
Buffalo Bill
Beech Street
McGuire
Humpy
McGurren
Humpy and the McGuires in a street farce
In a comic street scene, Humpy confronts Mrs. McGuire at her door about disruptions on the block. A neighborly exchange escalates as the two spar over mendacity, marriage, and a ruined plan, ending with a threat to investigate who fell and who didn’t.
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Carpenter
McGuires
Mro
McGuire
Humpy
Will to live wins bet after battle injury tale
A Parisian tale of Colonel Ely Hay in Lord Wellesley’s peninsular army who, struck by a bullet at Salamanca, miraculously survives an operation after a near death. A bet of £50 on his survival inspires the surgeon and Windsor to push the risky procedure, with Hay surviving and crediting willpower over science. Also a short joke about wearing scales from the Houston Post.
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Wilar
Lord Wellesley
Ely
Noto Rous
Salamanca
Marston
Windsor
Pareed
Hay
Pearson's Weekly
Unclear data fragment from Department records
Readable items show incomplete department figures with mixed numerals and decimals. No coherent events or names present. cannot determine a distinct news item.
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