Nick Carter Stories No. 131, March 13, 1915: A fatal message; or, Nick Carter's slender clewCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 131, March 13, 1915: A fatal message; or, Nick Carter's slender clew
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
“Each captain will be entitled to four sergeants to help him with his
mile. There will be no shot fired from nine a. m. to ten a. m., the time
of starting. The signal to start will be given at the southeast corner
promptly at ten a. m., each captain to fire his gun, and the sergeants
to fire their guns in turn until the signal is carried entirely around
the lines.
“All wolves are to be sold at auction, and the proceeds to go to pay for
coffee and bread. The meat is to be donated and barbecued on the ground
for all who hold tickets. So be sure that you are in one of the lines in
order to get a ticket. Ladies are invited to the round-up ground and
will get their dinner free.
“No quail to be shot, and all rabbits to be saved and sent to Oklahoma
City, to be distributed among the poor.
“Also please remember, no shooting in the center at round-up ground. The
drive will be held immediately west of Greenfield.”
Is Champion Hose Knitter.
Without doubt “Aunt Sallie” Hardly, of Big Laurel, Va., is the champion
hose knitter in the world. She has just celebrated her eighty-fifth
birthday by knitting a pair of men’s hose. Her hobby has always been
knitting. She could knit a pair of men’s hose in two days when she was
nine years old. Aunt Sallie thirty years ago began keeping a record of
hose knit, and since that time has completed 10,005 pairs, she says. “I
believe that in all I have knitted over fifteen thousand pairs, and have
hopes of making it twenty thousand before I reach one hundred, which age
I believe I will live to see,” she said.
Girl Rifle Team Gets “Defi.”
The girl’s rifle team of the Iowa City High School, Iowa City, Ia., has
been challenged by a girls’ rifle team of Washington, D. C., and
probably will accept the “defi.” The coach is Professor C. E. Williams,
a member of the Iowa university national championship team of other
days, and now coach of the national high-school champion five of Iowa
City.
Small Pitching Staff Best, Says Old-timer.
Jimmy Ryan, veteran player and one of the best of the famous Chicago
Colts, believes baseball is going back to the old days, when five
pitchers were all the biggest club would carry.
“At present,” he says, “we find big-league clubs with ten or more
pitchers on the pay roll, when three or four are actually doing the
work. What is the result? Why, these regulars are liable to be fretty
because they have to perform the heavy tasks and at the same time see
six or seven men sitting on the bench drawing pay and performing no
actual labor in championship games.
“‘Why do I have to do so much and wear myself out, when those guys are
having it so soft?’ they frequently say to themselves. And you can’t
blame them.
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