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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1892
Page
8
At the Clark and Randolph intersection in Chicago a crowd gathered as a large black bear lay dead with a bullet hole between its eyes. A policeman posed heroically while spectators joked and a market man carried the bear away, noting previous losses from his wagon.
A New York detective recalls shadowing a notorious East Side thug during a Bowery theater visit. He followed the villain, watched him react to a melodrama, and recalls the man applauding villains before attempting an arresting officer outside. The encounter ends with a threat to the detective.
A prominent horse dealer advises buyers to study the sale catalogue and seek kind sound and true horses. The piece blends comic bits and anecdotes, including a railway car joke about holding a crying baby and a Duke of Clarence story about Prince Albert Victor.
An Ohio paper reports two calves on a county farm raised to reduce care. They stay in the barn near a weir and use a cistern pump to drink, one pumping while the other drinks, with occasional solo drinking by lifting the plunger with the mouth. Also noted is a chemist demonstrating sulphur cooling and imprinting lithographed characters onto its surface.
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