Hinks Talks of Mercy Then Drowns Cat in Canal
A man hasty in anger tries to drown a cat using bricks in a flour sack. He overbalances and ends up drenched after the sack leaks. His wife reveals the bag’s hole, sparing the animal and him from crime, as they return home.
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Get Rich Quick Fads and Rising Costs Hit Families
Tillie Cligger notes boarding life cuts into funds as expenses surge since 1914. The piece mocks in law and humor how gas, tires, clothing, and furnishings cost more, while Get Rich Quick promoters prey on hopeful investors, urging a nationwide response and stronger regulation.
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Barefoot Boys Strike Oil Salvage Profit
Two brothers aged eleven and twelve, inspired by a spilling pipe in the Burkburnett Northwest field, dammed a ravine with dirt and a donkey wagon to salvage oil. A local owner offered one and a half dollars per barrel. they totted up three thousand barrels and earned forty hundred dollars in a week.
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Burkburnett
A Fat Man Sinks Into a Carriage Seat
A stout man settles into a train carriage just as it prepares to move and breathes hard. A small boy across from him fixates with wide eyes until the man demands why he is being watched. The lad pleads that there is nowhere else to look.
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