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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1938
Page
1
A garbled dialogue about color and a late game call spills into the report. The exchange hints at a tardy decision as a snail player’s discipline or readiness influences the scheduled contest and forces a delay in action.
A humorous dialogue scene shows Johnny-Yah and Tommy-Yeah exchanging muffled chatter about a lawyer and a doctor as a duck and a bird are referenced. Lily questions the mortgage on their home while Mose explains the mortgage is temporary until foreclosed. A child asks who hit him, answered by a boy with a black eye.
A Chinese man fears a vicious dog and the owner cites the saying a barking dog never bites. The man asks if the dog knows the proverb, implying doubt about the animal's restraint.
Elizabeth C James and Richard Connell’s story follows Rainsford aboard a yacht in the Caribbean. After a discussion on hunting ethics, a gunshot startles him, he falls overboard, and he washes ashore on a mysterious island where exhaustion and intrigue unfold as he sleeps.
Richard Connell, a prominent twentieth century American author, worked across newspaper editing fiction and cinema. Known for Anes and Angels Murder at Sea and The Most Dangerous Game, Connell was born in 1893, earned a Harvard bachelor’s degree, and served in France with the AEF during World War I.
Rainsford pursues escape from General Zaroff on an island estate. He survives by planting deadly traps as Zaroff hunts him with dogs and hounds, culminating in a final confrontation that ends with Zaroff killed and Rainsford sleeping in the General’s bed.
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