Idaho Men Fight Monster Beasts Near Mendota
Two hunters Joseph Cliffe and Walt Gifford reported sighting a giant, dinosaur-like creature with horns, a lizard head and 80 foot tail in North Basin near Mendota. They fired but fled as rocks and trees were torn loose, followed by a long chase until townsfolk halted the pursuit.
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Idaho
Mendota
Joseph Cliffe
Walt Gifford
North Basin
Cliffe
Gifford
North Mountain
Trout Creek
Heroic Rescue By Girl From Smoke Fire In Chicago Home
Miss Margaret Kalman twenty two saves her friend Miss Myrtle Ackerman twenty years from smoke in a fire at 3022 East Ninety second street. Ackerman recovers from the smoke but praised Kalman for lifting the unconscious friend and guiding her down stairs as Frederick Ackerman summoned the fire brigade by telephone. Kalman unaware of the fire entered the house by back stairs and found Ackerman in a swoon.
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Chicago
Margaret Kalman
Myrtle Ackerman
Miss Ackerman
Miss Kalman
Ackerman
Fire Department
Margaret
East Ninety-second Street
Frederick Ackerman
Bone graft saves leg in remarkable dog bone operation
In San Francisco Dr. Arthur B. Nelson grafted six bone slivers from a dog's leg into Joseph P. Riley's tibia to avert amputation. The surgeon removed damaged tissue and inserted the spitz bone pieces, declaring the procedure a success and Riley near discharge.
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San Francisco
Cal
Joseph P. Riley
America
Arthur B. Nelson
Riley
Nelson
Nighttime Fiend in Sleep Haunts Kansas Family
Walter Schoonover an 11 year old boy in Kansas City Kansas shows homicidal impulses only while sleeping. He has tried to strike his parents with a hammer in several awakenings and, though loving them, cannot explain the urge. Judge Van Buren Prather ordered the child sent to a sanitarium for treatment.
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Kansas City
Walter Schoonover
Kan
van 3B. Prather
Omnibus History and jail escape tale from old newspapers
The piece recalls London’s first omnibuses set in 1829 by George Shillibeer with 22 inside seats and a 1 shilling fare. It also reports a Fayetteville jail break attempt where inmates were foiled when a jailer's bulldog barked and drew bystander attention.
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George Shillibeer
Paris
London
England
Omnibus
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Beast
Fayetteville
W. Va
Fayette County
Frank Carver
Liberty
United States
R. V. Pierce
Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Prest
Buffalo, N.Y
DR. Pierce
Homer Stair
Vanttry
Spohn Medical CO
Cames Noe Goshen
Ixd
W.L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W L. Douglas
Japan
Continental O14
Company (Incorporated
QOL Ghigt Tilia
South America
Brazil
Argentina
Uruguay
Chile
S.S. Blucher
New York
West Indies
Orient P.O
Tammarg-American Line
Broadway
Iramida
Thompson
Denver
Gyps
A. S. Alexander
Farm Journal
Unites States
F Farm Journal
Richard
Race Street
Philadelphia
Pr. O
Race St
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