28 Mar 1898
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1898
Page
1
A clerk recalls a summer canal accident in Virginia. He and his wife and three year old son wandered near Georgetown. The boy fell into the water and drowned. the mother died in the current. The father reacted in frantic rescue attempt and faced loss.
A fragment from the Washington Star notes a boy tickling a person’s ear with a blade of grass while a wife aids and abets him. The fragment implies a minor incident but lacks full context or resolution.
On the Island Golf Club course in Garden City two players had a tight game with near equal scores. A dramatic interruption arrives as a swaggering car stops by the sixth tee, a stunning young woman entreats George to lunch, and the match resumes with a series of mis-hits and bunker escapes concluding the "game of his life" comes to an end.
Fragmentary notice recalls a Western city incident where a hot poultice set a tub alight and ignited cellulose enamel, firefighters dampened the blaze as the house flooded. The piece markets various medical tonics and travel ads amid the scattered text.
A New York sportsman recalls fishing for trout in mid May on streams of northeastern Pennsylvania. He defies locals’ worm-only lore, guides, and a snow bound creek as he lands 76 trout, including a 16 inch specimen, despite freezing water and rain. The piece contrasts old beliefs with a stubborn early season effort and notes changing local practices.
An interview recounts the cottonmouth moccasin described as deadly and aggressive by J. F. Hildreth in Kansas. A tale from the Virgin Valley relates a winter spring riverbank sighting of venomous snakes clustered around a ledge, with a negro boy’s warning and a peril felt by river workers.
In a sunlit scene boys and I drive razorback hogs through a creek ledge to scatter a large ball of snakes lounging among dead leaves. We kill many, the hogs finish the rest, and the cotton crop along Verdigrin may suffer next summer.
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