Wild Man Captured After Coon Hunt At Elk Fork Camp
The Coon County Club event drew nearly seven hundred participants with five hunters and multiple hounds chasing a so-called wild man named Thomaha cat. Mayor Rolla Rothwell helped capture the figure, who wore fur clothing and claimed to live in the woods since 1890, aided by a wooden leg and a tree fashioned limb.
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Ph County Coon Club
Elk Fork Creek
Goltra
Decker Clark
Thomas J
Evans
Rolla Rothwell
Moberly
Thom
Aha Cat
St. Louis
Alcot Makes Mare Fight in Barn Incident
Bert on Washington November 29. A Colby farmer Braken stored a quart of alcohol for his horse in a feed area. A mare kicked Braken after he checked the stall. he fell, was knocked aside, and the mare ended by pinning him behind the door. The report ends with unclear dialogue about the incident.
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Berton
Braken
Molly
Desert Plants That Yield Food and Water in Deserts
A photo study by Dr. Daniel T. MacDougal shows desert cacti and related plants that store or yield drinkable sap. The images, from the Desert Botanical Laboratory and Carnegie Institution, depict Papagoi Indians drinking from Echinocactus Emorgi, Saguaro in the Santa Catalina range, barrel cactus Bisnaga, and other giants near Tehuacan and Central Arizona, with notes on water storage and thrist relief.
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Emorgi
Torres
Santa Catalina Mountains
Arizona
Tehuacan
Tehuacea
Daniel T. MacDougal
North American
Deserts
Desert Botanical Laboratory
Carnegie Institution
Washington
Origin of the Yule Log in Virginia
The December Pictorial Review tells how a Confederate general’s widow recalls a Christmas Eve tale in Virginia. An old man helps a freezing child, a miraculous log fires, and a Christmas feast appears, bringing warmth and light to all.
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Virginia
Pictorial Review
George E. Pickett
Lata Tsibeasco
Simon
Old
International Livestock Exposition Opens at Chicago Yards
The annual International Livestock Exposition opens at Chicago stock yards with about 11 000 animals valued at 2 000 000 on display. Students from Ohio Mississippi Nebraska Indiana Arkansas Texas Kansas Minnesota and Canada enter cattle judging. A nightly horse fair with prize animals runs during the expo. The promptness prize likely goes to the dun.
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Chicago
Ohio
Mississippi
Nebraska
Indiana
Arkansas
Texas
Kansas
Minnesota
Armour Grain Company Opens In Ontario
An Ontario Gazette notice shows Armour Grain Company of New Jersey has taken a license to do business in Ontario. Sources say the Chicago based firm is a major American grain operator.
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TORO
Canada
Ontario
Armour Grain Company of
New Jersey
Chicago
Aged former mayor confesses to crime
Wesley H. Terry former mayor of Floyd Virginia age 63 was indicted Friday afternoon at Floyd courthouse on an attempted criminal assault charge against a court official's daughter and minutes later pleaded guilty to the indictment, receiving a five year sentence in the state penitentiary.
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Roanoke
Wesley H. Terry
Floyd
Bold Bad Man Proudly Goes to the Devil
A terse satirical line contrasts a bold bad man with his pride in evil and notes that poorer people fear snow and Christmas more than others. The remark reflects social tension and class awareness in harsh winter conditions.
Electric Lights and Music to Lure Fish
Kansas City November 29 BC Hal Haldeman fire alarm chief and inventor is testing a device to attract fish using lights and music. A telephone reproducer drives small electric lamps with a storage battery, connected to a phonograph, to lure fish in Overland Park lake for a potential patent.
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Kansas City
Haldeman
Fire Headquarters
Overland Park Lake
Man Kills His Wife and Himself in Moffett Oklahoma
In Moffett Oklahoma on November 20, Hi Jones shot his wife in the presence of their eleven children then killed himself with two bullets to the head. Neighbors found both dead. coroners verdict cites bullets from opposite directions making suicide unlikely. revolver found near Jones.
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Moffett
Okla
Jones
Suici
Defense Stands For Visiting Team Players
A brief defense argues that players are not responsible for most of the visiting team’s actions, suggesting mitigating factors may apply to the visitors and shifting focus from individual blame.
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Coon
Wild Man
Romice
Klatt
Englewood
Ada
John Moore
Mar
Alcot
Byatt E
Sania
Chicago Yards
Dun
Armour Grain Company
McAtee
Dauphin Street
Man
Newbro
Menbro
Herpicide CO
Dept
Detroit, Mich
Alaska
Daniel O'Rourke
Sitka
Sharp’s Queen
Victoria
Yorkshire
England
Thomas Laxton
Nott
Excelsior Sutton
Excelsior
Little Marvel
VAN
Antwerp
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