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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
24
A desert ordeal unfolds as Joe Mary a hunted half breed fights thirst and pursuit. A trooper chases the fugitive across sun baked terrain and a fatal twist ends with Joe Mary slain by a hidden gunshot as relief nears.
A New York Press spoof proclaims avoid soap on the hair and head. It warns against hard soaps and perfumes describing a ritual of washing with suds, showering, drying, and applying olive oil.
A short rustic dialogue contrasts tourist curiosity with native farming wisdom. The tourist asks about crops and soil while the native notes that seed choice and weather determine what farmers grow in this section.
A humorous dialogue features a genealogist and a friend debating kinship. They note Billy Bowen attends a ball game after his first wife’s second husband dies, but mourns when his present wife’s first husband dies. The twist: the present wife plans to remarry her first husband.
A New York Weekly tale recounts Butterwick attempting to fall asleep by imagining sheep leaping a fence, counting to 140 then 240, interrupted by family chaos and a noisy dog. After warding off intrustions and a nightmarish dream of a ram, he wakes convinced sheep offer no narcotic value.
A nature student describes how pigs wallow to shed parasites and birds bathe in cold water to lower fever. Dogs eat grass to regain appetite, monkeys dress wounds with leaves, ants cover injuries with healing fluid, and birds reportedly set broken legs.
An East side barber complains of hairs filling his pocket watch every month though he never opens the watch. He sends it downtown for cleaning and wonders how fine hairs get into the mainspring despite keeping the watch in his pocket while cutting hair.
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