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Ostrich Nearly Kills Attendant

3 ostriches looking down at you POV

Huge Bird Attacks Robert Reed

Pursues Him Around a Tree

Employe at Cawston Farm Attempts to Rescue Japanese and Almost Loses Life Before Ostrich is Beaten Off

In an encounter with a huge male ostrich at the Cawston ostrich farm yesterday, afternoon, Robert Reed, an employe of the company, was kicked twice and stamped by the angry bird, and undoubtedly would have been killed but for the timely Interference of other attendants, who beat off the ostrich with clubs.

Reed sustained a broken rib and his body was black and blue from the ostrich’s attacks upon him. A physician was called and Reed was taken to his home.

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Valuable Roman Armor Uncovered by Plowman

KARAGATCH, Bulgaria, Aug, 9 (AP)—A peasant plowing near this village turned up one of the most interesting archeological finds made in recent years, When the plow struck an obstruction the peasant found it was a slab of marble. Lifting this a marble tomb was disclosed and within lay a suit of bronze armor of a Roman knight, together with shield, sword, spear and several utensils, including an exquisite vase.

Director Velkoff, of the National Museum, and Mr. Popoff, an expert on Greek antiquities, estimate that the find dates back to the pre-Alexandine period. They surmise that he may have been a dweller of a Hellenic colony on the Black Sea coast.

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Shafer Beaver Hide Trouble Near Resolution

State Game and Fish Commission Still Holds Mrs. Shafer’s Furs

Attorney General George F. Shafer and officials of the state game and fish commission are nearing the end of a game of button-button, who’s got the furs, which has created some quiet amusement in unofficial circles here.

It all began during the primary campaign when Mr. Shafer was presenting his plea for recognition by Republican voters as a candidate for the governorship and was the subject of considerable whispering in the latter stages of the campaign.

Several weeks before the primary election the game and fish officials of Minnesota notified the North Dakota Game and Fish commission that Mrs. George F. Shafer, wife of the attorney general, had shipped some beaver hides to a Minnesota furrier to be made into a coat.

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A Dallas Custom

That of the policemen discharging loaded pistols all over the city every time an alarm of fire is raised at night. The object is to arouse those who are not…
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N. P. Willis on the “Baltimore and Ohio Railroad”

ldlewild, August 8, 1859

Dear Morris : There is one class of sights upon a new railroad which are very interesting while their freshness lasts—the places that have been taken by surprise. On the line of the streak of lightning that was thrown over the Alleghanies by the Baltimore thunder-cloud of thirty-one million dollars, is a succession of far-hidden remotenesses—wild valleys, cascades, solitary shanties and mountain fastnesses—many of which were thought by the hunter, or by the pioneer settler, wholly unreachable by common thoroughfares, and, in fact, inaccessible to all visitings but the eagle’s, but which have been laid open, almost with the suddenness of a thunderbolt, and are now daily looked at from crowded freight trains and expresses, as familiar to the man in the locomotive as the signs of a street!

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Theatre Proprietor Fined for Allowing Minors to Attend

Photograph of the Bijou Theatre, Perth Amboy, NJ, circa pre 1913. It shows 6 men and one youth standing in front of the building.

The much questioned practice of admitting minors with adult strangers to theatres came up for a test before Recorder Pickersgill at 7 o’clock last night, when Morris Streiff was fined $15 for admitting six little boys to his motion picture theatre at 189 Hall avenue. The law permits that children under age may be admitted to theatres when accompanied by “parent, guardian or adult friend,” but Recorder Pickersgill contends Streiff did not have the right to permit a man to take in six boys whom he met outside of the amusement place, even as an adult friend.

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Planes Still Lost as Ships Intensify Search of Pacific

$40,000 Rewards Offered for Recovery of Miss Doran and Golden Eagle

WEATHER CONDITIONS IDEAL FOR FIVE FLYERS IF AFLOAT

Fruitless Quest Continued Throughout Day and Night by Radio, Fleet and Aircraft

Dole Air Race Additional Information: Buhl Air Sedan ""Miss Doran"" NX2915 Tags: Dole Air Race, Buhl Air Sedan ""Miss Doran"" NX2915 Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.—The Pacific Ocean today was the scene of a renewed search for a brown-eyed girl of 22 and four men, missing flyers in the aerial derby to Honolulu, who may still be afloat upon its limitless leagues.

Mildred Doran, pretty school teacher of Flint. Mich., and her pilot and navigator, John A. Pedlar and Vilas R. Knope, had been down approximately 48 hours, according to the most hopeful estimates of the cruising radius of the biplane in which they set out Tuesday noon in the Dole $35,000 flight from Oakland to Honolulu. The time limit set by the builder of the plane on its ability to withstand the buffeting of the seas was only 24 hours.

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Dramatic Scene Marks First Day Of Murder Trial

TOMBSTONE. Ariz, Aug. 16. The first day of the trial of James Haverty, charged with murdering his brother, Richard, on April 21, came to a sensational close this evening when Mrs. Richard Haverty rushed at the man accused of slaying her husband, vigorously slapped his face, and then collapsed in the arms of friends. The incident occurred as Haverty was leaving the court room.

James Haverty is charged, with having shot his brother following an exchange of words near Ramsey Canyon about 40 miles east of here. The Haverty brothers were tor many years well known cattlemen in south eastern Arizona.

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Entertainment for Children at Seashore Home

Children's Seaside House boardwalk. Photo: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Last Saturday two hundred and fifty crippled children of the Seashore Home listened with delight to the songs sung by Miss Louise Mack, of the Beaux Arts Cafe. The choruses of “Old Fashioned Girl” and “Three O’clock in the Morning” were favorites selected by the kiddies. Mrs. Rennie Cormack, of New York, played delightfully on the piano, Mira. Cormack also played and sang, as did Mr. F. Collis Wildman. Miss Suzanne Sackett made the arrangements.