Old Pioneer Memories and Indian Wrestling Tales
A veteran recounts early Puget Sound life from Alki Point to Seattle. He recalls canoe travel, Indian country, and meeting a famed wrestler named Pukpuka. The narrator, a 97 year old storyteller, shares a tense challenge against the tribe and his role as a US Indian agent before the climactic wrestling rematch.
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Avtid
Pegey
Snoqualmie
SuqQuamish
Puget Sound
Alki Point
Seattle
Elliot Bay
Pionmeer
United States
Snoopy Skunk Feuds With Tingaling Over a Yellow Petunia Mixup
Snoopy Skunk clashes with Tingaling and Nancy over a supposed sunny day and pink or yellow petunias. Tingaling insists yellow blooms are gold while Snoopy argues they are pink, leading to confusion and comic tension in a whimsical scene from 1920.
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Tingaling
Mr. Skunk
Nick
Snoopy
Nancy
Snoopy Skunk
Bowser the Hound Tracks Foxes to Old House
Bowser the Hound follows Granny Fox and Reddy Fox tracks away from Farmer Brown's boy digging. The hound's nose leads toward an old deserted house where Granny Fox plans to mislead the dog. A chance encounter with Prickly Porky the Porcupine adds a startled scamper.
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Brown
Reddy
Granny Fox
Buzzard
Bowser the Hound
Granny
Reddy Fox
Bowser
Farmer Frown
Hame
Gradely
Ysu
Prickly
Porky the Porcupine
Pencil Sketch by Cosway Sells for 600 at Auction
In London on August 20 a signed 1767 pencil drawing of Kitty Fisher by R. Cosway sold for 600. The item’s length and date were noted. The sale also mentioned early metal shaping and cutting presses from 1841. A stray sentence about a blinded chameleon is noted but unrelated.
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London
R. Cosway
Kitty
Fisher
Lottery Gambler Picks Spion Kop by Personal System
Chinese student Tsing, in Geneva, won $2,000 on Spion Kop in the English derby by a self devised method. He penned horse names on slips, drew one from a hat, and bet on the chosen entry.
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Geneva
Tsing
Spion Kop
Morals on Bargain Counter Sayings Stir Columbus Clergy
Rev Daniel F. Rittenhouse declares morals are on the bargain counter nationwide and urges a return to old-time propriety. Other Columbus pastors join in condemning perceived lax morals.
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Columbus
Ohio
Daniel IF. Rittenhouse
Prickly Torky Fears Bowser Hound Scatters Spears
A tale notes Bowser the Hound fleeing as Prickly Torky, armed with a coat of spears, dashes away. The narrative shifts to Prickly Porky enjoying himself in a separate segment.
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Bowser
Kansas Bees Sting High Living Costs
In Manhattan Kansas on August 20 the Kansas bee growers report a solution to high fruit preservation costs. They now use honey instead of sugar to preserve fruit in the current season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theone Page
Clarice
Kansas
Manhattan
Kas
Kansas Bee Growers
No Wild Birds for Germans Any More
The Australian Zoological Society continues to block Germany from resuming pre war import and export of wild animals and birds, keeping restrictions in place as of August in Melbourne Australia.
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Snoopy
Tingaling
Nancy
Nick
Oscar Owl
Zoological Societies
Skin Eruptions Prompt Public Healing Claim
Advert appears to promote 8 8 8 S a vegetable blood remedy for eczema and skin eruptions. It argues local treatments fail and that the remedy cleanses the blood, promising clearer complexion and cure, with free medical advice from the head physician at 612 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta.
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Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
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Tom
Allman
Thar
Annie
Peter
Leo
Freckles
Blosser
Rowanow
LST
Joneses
POP Mom
HY Mahan
David
Han
Eaid
Gould
Mr. Tingaling
His
BY Thornton W. Burgess
Otto Auto
Vet Spredomeer
Ahern
Union Opr Arcade
Porky
Melbourne
Australia
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