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...illuminates a card of directions for the person locked in. The card tells how to turn the stopcock of the tank, which releases the oxygen gradually as needed. Mr. Bossom will not patent his device because of its humanitarian need. The first one is being made for a Galveston, Tex., bank. Many vault imprisonments which do not have fatal results are said to escape public notice...
Died. T. W. House, 78, former postmaster at Houston, Tex., and brother of Colonel Edward M. House, at Houston...
...TEX AUSTIN'S RODEO." Tex Austin, it appears, is the champion manager of cowboy championships. "He always pays 100 cents on the dollar. He plays no favorites. No one ever bought, stole or ran away with a title at one of Tex Austin's contests." So reads his literature-which has been deposited by the mailman in most of the ranch post boxes of the West...
...Tex Austin's world's championship cowboy contest takes place at the Yankee Stadium, New York, Aug. 15 to 25. Here then is the greatest primitive spectacle of the struggle of man against beast that the laws of our land permit. " Bronk " riding, steer bulldogging (diving from horseback to the horns of a wild steer and throwing it by the application of human leverage to the sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little...
...mining boom of 1904. Last week, catching fire, it flashed a tiny epitaph across the sporting pages. It was famous-Shelbylike-for the Gans-Wilson fight in 1906. Previous to the fire, the inhabitants pointed with pride to a certain Main Street corner where stood the saloon in which Tex Rickard "made his start...