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  2. FOILING BILL SIKES.

    A recluse, who for Weeks at a time did not cross her door, Miss Margaret McCoy was found dead recently at the foot of the stairs in her house in ...

    Article : 149 words
  3. THE HONEST ROBBER.

    While the occupants were on holiday recently, a plumber called at a house at Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire (Scotland) to carry out some repairs (according to ...

    Article : 131 words
  4. Light and Shade

    A pretty girl of about 20, with Etoncropped hair, is believed to be the leader of a gang of motor bandits; for whom Scotland Yard. (Eng.) officers and ...

    Article : 263 words
  5. LIONS AT LARGE.

    A scene of tremendous excitement was witnessed recently at Cremona, in northern Italy. vNo fewer than five lions and lionesses got loose in the city, and ...

    Article : 173 words
  6. ONE FOR SOLOMON.

    A grocer in a London suburb is still scratching his head over a problem created by a small boy's visit to his shop (says a recent issue of the London "Daily ...

    Article : 206 words
  7. WIFE OLDER THAN HIS MOTHER.

    A lad of 1[?] recently obtained the consent of the Carmarthen (Great Britain) magistrates to marry a woman who will be 40 next brithday (relates the London ...

    Article : 112 words
  8. 'FISH CATCHES GIRL.'

    A young [?]. weighing 2 lb, was caught by a girl bather at Deal (Eng.) recently, in extraordinary circumstances (declares the London "Daily chronicle"). ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. BURIED IN ICE CREAM.

    An unusual incident occurred upon the Hog's Back, near Guildford (Eng.) recently when a man driving a canopied ice cream can lost control of the horse, ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. PHAROAH CAME A CROPPER.

    W. F. Irving (West Riding Police) throwing M. Pharoah (Meropolitan Police) in the heavy-weight Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestling championship of England. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 26 words
  11. BABY'S LUCK.

    A five weeks' old baby bad a remarkable escape from death at Ipswich (Eng.) recently, when the perambulator in which it was being wheeled by its mother, Mrs. ...

    Article : 145 words
  12. WAGER WON—AND LOST.

    To win a half-rown wager, John Rogers, a London market porter, dived from Westminster Bridge into the Thames recently (reports the London ...

    Article : 281 words
  13. TREE-CLIMBING CONSTABLE.

    How a constable waited for a suspect in a tree top was described at the West London Police Court recently, when Frank Turner (30) was charged with ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. OPENED BOMB WITH CORKSCREW.

    Doubtless because he was a Scotsman, a Buckie (Banffshire) man, when, his schoolboy son recently brought home a globe of blue opaque glass east up ...

    Article : 82 words
  15. MESMERISING A "CRAY."

    A monster crawfish (spiny lobster) which comes when called, and "shams dead," is one of the curiosities of the London Zoo aquarium (according to the ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. RAINBOW BLAZE.

    Tinted clouds of steam and jets of water were seen at a fire at a large paint and varnish warehouse in Great Guildford street. London, recently (states ...

    Article : 89 words
  17. BIRDCAGE 200 FEET HIGH.

    Guy's Hospital (London) boasts a chimney that is probably unique of its kind (Declares the London "Daily Chronicle.") ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. HOAXING A CITY.

    Thousands of people in the Attereliffe district of Sheffield (Eng.) were recently hoaxed by an innocent-looking boy of 13 (claims the London Daily ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. WASP WRECKS CAR.

    A wasp curtailed the holiday of Mr. S. F. Maddison, who lives in Yarmouth. England (says a recent issue of the London "Daily Chronicle"). ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. FORGOTTEN BAWBEES.

    The British Treasury has taken possession of £30S 18s. 5d. of Scotish savings for which no owner can be found (declares the London "Daily News" in ...

    Article : 115 words
  21. 300 FLASHES A MINUTE.

    In the early hours of a recent morning a severe thunderstorm swept over the Isle of Thanet (Great Britain) doing damage to house and other property, ...

    Article : 116 words
  22. HALF A TON OF PAINT.

    A surprise gift of half a ton of colour wash for the internal decoration of St. Matthew's Church (London)—the "church with the red doors"—was received ...

    Article : 94 words
  23. BOYS FIGHT WITH DETONATORS.

    Two boys who were arested by North Sydney police recently, admitted that they had been throwing detonators at each other (according to the Sydney ...

    Article : 94 words
  24. THE GHOST TRAIN.

    All the summer the great Paris-Milan holiday express train, starting from the Gare de Lyon at 10.30 p.m.. has been running practically empty, though it ...

    Article : 87 words
  25. A FLYING POLICEMAN.

    While Constable Alan Walker was passing over a ma[?]hole in Grimsby (Eng.) recently an explosion took place (states the London "Daily Chronicle"). ...

    Article : 84 words
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