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Convicts Grover Durrill, William Green and George Curtis were the men who turned up at the Salisbury farm. They took Farmer Salisbury upstairs with them, knocked out the windows, started firing on the posse of soldiers and prison guards who soon surrounded the frame farmhouse. Discomforted by the lead which buzzed and whined about him, old Farmer Salisbury climbed up to the attic. Peeping over a window ledge, he waved his handkerchief at the besiegers for recognition. Much to his surprise, two slugs instantly whistled through his flag of truce. After a while the posse's fire...
...Manhattan socialites whose names were withheld, offices of both magazines were raided on the same afternoon. At Town Topics (founded 1878 by the brother of its notorious long-time publisher, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann) detectives found themselves stopped by a blank wall and a peephole window marked "Subscriptions" through which a girl clerk told them no one was in. The raiders forced a door, found Editor Augustus Ralph Keller, a lean, sharp-featured, red-nosed little man with gold-rimmed spectacles. He was already awaiting trial on a charge of criminal libel brought by William Brown...
...Grinnell, Iowa, two barbers. Ed Jansen and John Ditzler, organized a ten-day, highpoint craps-match, patterned after the Lenz-Culbertson bridge match, to demonstrate the respective merits of the "African twist" v. "cotton roll." Late results, posted on the barber shop window, showed that Barber Ditzler, using the cotton roll, was 17 passes up on Barber Jansen...
...Lynn, Mass., one Patrick Terhaney disagreed with his landlady, Mrs. Eva Landregan, tossed her from a second story window. She got up, re-entered the house. A second time he threw her out, a second time she returned. Third time she lay still until an ambulance picked her up. Injuries: two broken ribs, bruises...
...Cartoon of a fat female, rear view, at a railway ticket window. She: "Can I get my trunks off on this train?" Agent: "I doubt it, lady...