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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
8
The piece profiles Baden Powell as a soldier and scientist who hunted during campaigns. It recounts daring patrols against a lion using Lee Metford carbines and revolver, notes scouting and tracking in enemy country, and blends war memoir with humorous and caustic observations on sport in war.
The narrator recounts a hunt for a lion during a trek in lion country. After spotting tracks and hidden foes, Jackson and the narrator shoot and kill a lion, securing its skin and trophies. The episode includes tension with a lookout and the scavenging Kaffir given as gifts, with the ledger noting the encounter and the lion's wounds.
Baron Heinrich Albert an Austrian Swiss adventurer recounts hunting exploits across the world including a Nubian lion confrontation in a perilous African terrain. He describes encounters with lions and other dangerous game, his expedition companions, weapons, and harrowing close calls with predators and rebels.
A reporter describes a chaotic scene at the Twenty third Street station where ticket seller Charlie Hott detained Israel Cohen, a milliner’s helper, after a confrontation about a large Merry Widow hat. The crowd surged as trains and commuters passed, ending with Hott’s arrest by a copper near the police station.
In South Boston Virginia on July 6 a fire decisively destroyed the Hamlett home after an unnoticed defect in the fireplace. Six people died including visitor H P Strange and five Hamlett children aged from 18 months to 14 years. The blaze began while the family slept and rescuers could not reach the victims before the dwelling collapsed.
In Portland ten thousand spectators watched James Corcoran of Lowell Mass endure a 300 foot fall when a signal mix up triggered premature parachute release. He died shortly after at a hospital. The incident followed by fires in San Francisco and a deadly bridge accident in Houston.
An officer was shot during a Philadelphia incident on July 6 as two policemen exchanged fire with a suspect. The wounded officer received aid from a fellow officer at the scene. Further details on injuries and suspects were not immediately available.
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