Nick Carter Stories No. 140, May 15, 1915: The Melting-PotCarter, Nicholas (House name)
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Nick Carter Stories No. 140, May 15, 1915: The Melting-Pot
Carter, Nicholas (House name)
Detective and mystery stories, American -- Periodicals; Popular literature -- Periodicals
Some are with other shows, some perform for moving pictures, but most of
them have quit the business and settled down. Among those who quit when
Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill closed is Tom Tait, who has located in
Gillette, Wyo., county seat of Campbell County, where he has been
elected sheriff. All his life has been spent on the cattle ranges of
Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas, with the exception of the time he was
on the road with the show. As a tamer of wild horses he has few equals,
and as a “cow hand” none at all.
All Six Died with Boots On.
The Grim Reaper has surely played relentless and strange havoc with the
Law family, of Muscatine, Iowa. Brad E. Law, a popular grocer, died
recently while sitting in a chair at his home. He died “with his boots
on,” so to speak, and so did his two brothers, his father, and his
father’s two brothers. One of the grocer’s brothers, an engineer, was
struck by a piece of a flying wheel, which broke and severed his head,
and the other brother died while at the dinner table. His father died
while plowing in the field, and one of his father’s brothers died in the
pulpit, while preaching a sermon. His father’s other brother died while
driving to town on his farm wagon.
They all met death while they were not expecting it. Neither of them was
sick before his death, and sickness was not the cause of any of the
deaths.
Tourists Welcome in Canada.
Numerous items have appeared lately in the press, advising residents of
the United States to obtain passports when visiting or passing through
Canada. Officials of the Canadian Pacific Railway made inquiries of the
government at Ottawa whether passports are now required. The government
announces that its officials are in no way interfering with bona-fide
tourist traffic, and that persons desirous of visiting points of
interest in Canada or of passing through Canada en route to other places
will be accorded the same courteous treatment as was customary before
the outbreak of war, and that passports are not required.
Why Belgium Thanks United States.
More than $21,500,000 has been received and the greater part of it spent
for Belgian relief, according to a statement issued in New York by the
commission for relief in Belgium.
One hundred and ten thousand tons of foodstuffs, cargo for twenty ships,
are now on the way to American seaports from interior points, the
statement adds.
Nearly sixty cargoes of foodstuffs, valued at more than $20,000,000, had
been sent to Rotterdam up to the middle of March by the commission.
New Way to Hunt the Coyote.
Hunting coyotes on motor cycles is a popular sport in Sherman County,
Kan. A party of ten young men went coyote hunting in this manner from
there, and in one day succeeded in capturing three of the prairie pests.
New Attachment for Razor.
A Canadian inventor had secured a patent on which appears to be a simple
attachment for converting an ordinary razor into one of the safety type.
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