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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1920
Page
2
A chaotic scene unfolds with criminals and bystanders in a tense chase. A suspect is cornered and subdued as an ambush leads to injuries and a dramatic confrontation. Police and witnesses describe a village disruption ending with arrests and ongoing investigations.
In a tense hotel doorway scene Curly and Sam avoid ambush as Curly learns Soapy Stone plans to silence Sam. Slats Davis warns Curly that Stone’s crew intend a bold betrayal and Curly agrees to confront the traitor.
In a tense frontier scene Curly confronts Soapy Flandran over a planned holdup and a staged killing. Rumors swirl as Curly defies warnings, meets Luck and Slats, and faces Cullison and Kate Cullison in a Del Mar hotel room amid a gunplay threat.
Two men cross a treacherous yellow sandbank in high boots and rifles. They sink, debate a suicidal bridge plan, gamble to decide who will sacrifice, and one man collapses into the quicksand. A girl on horseback arrives as the survivor flees in shame.
A terse notice notes that banana skins are humorously claimed for slippers in Loudon Blighty. The remark appears as a light cultural aside without further context or named individuals.
An apparatus designed to produce winging of Clootis using air pressure sourced from door opening and closing cycles, credited to inventor Prenebircue. The concept suggests a mechanical system harnessing pressure changes for motion or lift.
Within Philadelphia limits Bustleton is a small village of retired farmers with rich historic lore. The Union hotel, handed down in the Tilyer family for nearly two centuries, recalls Mad Anthony Wayne and colonial raids. Each September mushroom harvests attract crowds to harvest fields feeding Philadelphia markets.
In Palo Alto two Pottsville doctors restored a railroad worker who was crushed by a heavy beam across the throat. The beam fractured the hydder horseshoe bone, a vital and movable bone in the neck, nearly strangling the patient during the accident.
A sharp look at racing odds shows bookmakers winning more often than sprinters in swift markets. Bettors chase favorable lines as bookmakers adjust odds on racing events to capitalize on momentum and volume.
Charles Lathrop Pack urges a decade pause on monuments and promotes road beautification through memorial groves for war workers. Minneapolis plans to plant elm groves by 1951 with a $50,000 fund, trees 60 feet apart under C M Loring. Other cities like Washington and Cincinnati discuss similar memorial plantings.
Popular Mechanics describes a roadside mail box designed to blend with a stucco ranch house. The cattleman adapts a covered base pedestal and concrete mounting, with the top painted green to match the setting.
The guide notes the garden needs a sunny, five hour daily sun spot. It warns against thin soils with exposed rocks that burn in summer and against locations under large trees that shade sun and deplete moisture. Avoid flood-prone areas.
Through the association of commerce Milwaukee will centralize city activities among foreign born residents. A general committee drawn from civic social and patriotic bodies will oversee, with an executive committee of five from the general body. Cooperation aims to prevent overlap and expand community work next year.
A Kansas City Times clipping quotes neighbors from Rumpus Ridge Arkansas accusing Gabe Gawkey's wife of heartlessness amid divorce rumors. The mock dialogue mentions spring medicine and a buck saw and ax as a grim metaphor for lack of feelings.
A homeowner who builds his own residence adds lasting value to the town. He departs with a sense of pride, believing the house stands as a personal monument and makes the community more attractive for future generations.
A twelve year old recalls a winter morning mishap when sent to the store. She spotted the boy she loved and rushed outside, slipped on the stairs, and fell. He laughed, and she never looked at him again.
Lightly rub brown boot polish on brown finished doors to restore shine and hide scratches. Wipe with a soft cloth for a brilliant, protective gloss on wood and furniture surfaces.
Alsatian petroleum wells have been worked for 180 years and the deposits are now the only ones in the world to be worked by shafts.
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