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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1917
Page
26
A frontier life portrait by Capt. A. J. Sowell describing the settler and the leather stocking neighbor who saves a hunter at a pivotal moment. Jasper Curry returns home with a heavy heart as horned danger and kinship with rugged men shape the tale of survival and sacrifice on the Texas frontier.
In a Texan cabin, Jacob Brown saves his family from twenty Comanche warriors while Curly draws the others away. Brown fires from a port hole as arrows and muskets strike the walls, then Curly returns and kills one attacker, driving the rest off.
Miss Alice Whitney of Detroit offers a home formula to darken gray hair and add gloss. Mix a half pint of water with 1 oz bay rum a small box Barbo Compound and ¼ oz glycerine. Apply twice weekly until the desired shade, leaving hair non sticky and non greasy.
In a tense pursuit up the creek the hunter Curly confronts a fleeing group as he reloads and advances toward a doorstep encounter. He bears facial wounds but insists the injuries are minor while noting he is nearly winded. The scene ends with townsfolk reacting to the skirmish and a rumor of Sicily mortgaged to England circulated in Berne.
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