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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1899
Page
11
Mr Bowser eagerly follows a hometown remedy the bare foot cure for rheumatism. He paces a dewy yard and snares a carpet tack a wire mishap and a child’s potato volley lead to a chaotic tumble. Mrs Bowser and the cook rush to aid as Bowser lands head first on the floor in humorous exhaustion.
A crowd gathers as Major Rathpone claims our forebears did not come on the Mayflower. The speaker is confronted at the Blind Bear saloon where he backs off an alleged insult by accepting a drink, ending the funeral debate. The Kicker recalls a prior item about George Taylor two weeks earlier.
The narrative recounts Major Crofoot, C. P., driving a Sioux saloon keeper from New Mexico after a shooting. A landlord quarrel unfolds with Crofoot proposing a grand sugar beet scam to finance riches, promising millions through white sugar from brown beets. The exchange ends with the landlord avoiding immediate commitment as Crofoot presses for posturing investment.
A Baltimorean recalls being in Madrid as war loomed, facing insult and dueling threats from Spanish officers, choosing a bluff over weapons, and enduring a tense hotel scene. He describes the mob, near duels, and a hotelier predicting Spain's defeat as war approached.
A St. Louis drummer recounts disguising as Cornelius Van derbilt to test reactions in a village hotel Arkansas. He recalls crowds watching him and a joke about bluffing a governor out of ten thousand dollars in a poker pot. The fragment ends with a jumble of unrelated notes and a reference to a China Record.
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