Foot Race Fallout Strains Western Ranch Circle
The Flying Heart Ranch endures a lingering defeat after a foot race with Centipede that cost them a prized phonograph. Cowboys bicker over music choices while plots swirl about hoarded wagers, a looming debt, and possible revenge. Jack Chapin fears trouble as Miss Chapin stages a spring house party.
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Flying Heart Ranch
Jack Chapin
Smith College
Mr. Fresno
Jean
Fresno
Hog theft plot ends in trick on old Stepney
A Georgia planter suspects hog thieves and schemes to trap them by hiring nearby "Daddy Stepney" to guard the hogs, promising a yearly reward. Stepney agrees, citing long service to the family, while the tale shifts to a beer joke among workers upstairs. The scene blends suspicion, self interest, and a ribald punchline.
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Georgia
Daddy Stepney
Stepney
Marie Joe
Just Suited Inn Keeper Probes Sour Beer
An extremely mean inn keeper finds a cask of beer beginning to sour in the cellar and plans to give it away. He weighs options about the tainted drink and its fate.
Zones of Silence and Hidden Sound Gaps
The article notes zones of silence such as in the Alps and reports experiments on the English Channel using loud sirens whistles and hooters. It found that on clear quiet days a sound can be inaudible at short distance, suggesting existence of soundless zones and potential links to ocean disasters.
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Alps
English Channel
Reader Recounts Facial Flush During Confident Exchange
Fragmentary note describes a person flushing when another examines his countenance. The lines imply awareness of being read and suggest a tense social moment. The text ends abruptly with a prompt about a garden world and a garden related theme.
Illinois News From Across Towns In One Dispatch
Sheriff William Fleming of Moultrie county was shot and killed by Nimrod Huff at Huff's home as Fleming tried to arrest him for attacking his sweetheart with a corn knife. Huff then killed himself. Other notes include a 150000 bond proposal in Elgin for a municipal lighting plant and a fatal buggy accident near Galena where a child died.
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Flying Heart Ranch
Jerusalem
Bill” Stover
Gallagher
Willie
Stover
Helena Mora
New York
Mex
Mora
Cactus
Carara
Holy City
Melby
Silas
Fifth Avenue
Bill
William Fleming
Moultrie
Nimrod Huff
Sullivan
Moultrie County
Huff
Fleming
Paxton
Winfield Gilmore
Elgin
Galena
John T. Riley
Cairo
Tlinois River
Alta
Bushnell
John C. Silver
Tamora
Neb
Jacksonville
Joseph Warcup
Murrayville
England
Morgan County
Batavia
Fox River Lodge
Loyal Order of Moose
Joliet
M. Wladyslawa Witkowski
Women's
Polish Alliance of
Chicago
Holy Cross
Elgin — County
Charles B. Hazelhurst
Higin
Allen
Joliet Penitentiary
Kane County
Chicago-Elgin
Springfield
Dunne
Colorado
M. H. Glynn
New York City
Eugene Grant
Mount Sterling
Rockford
Charles Parker Connolly
Church of the Christian Union
Duquoin
Majestic
Davis
Carlyle
Tfire
Weinberg Fruit Farm
Posey
Steck
Perry Ralfi
Belvidere
Chicago & Northwestern
Desplaines Street
W. P. Greaney
Jim Evans
Lee
Evans
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Joe
Missus Melby
Humpy Joe
Skinner
Humpy
Jack
Berkeley
Miss Chapin
Berkeley Fresno
Waily Speed
Vueen
Derkeley
Tetch
Mr. Speed
Culver’s
Culver Covington
Miss Blake
Wally Speed
Smith
Rex
Ius Ate
Posar Berk Sm
Harper É
Darby
News .of
Illinois
Telegraph
Sheriff
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