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W.H. Trewitt, with smooth shaved face and long hair, whose handbills say he is "one of God's servants" and a divine healer, has come to Kansas City to look after the spiritually afflicted.
He has rented a room at Fifth and Broadway. Trewitt claims to be about the only true Christian on earth at the present time. He says he has been working for the Master's cause since the first Sunday in May, 1893, at 11 o'clock.
He has never asked for a cent of money or clothes. He is riding free over railroads, steamboats and bridges and pays all kinds of rates going through the heathen lands and has never been outside the United States.
New York.--- Dr. Chao Choy, who arrived here from Cuba on his way back to China, declared he is 149 years old.
He was highly indignant when customs officers doubted his word. Dr. Choy is 6 feet tall and bald.
Chicago. Dec. 18--- After showing the sexton where he wanted a grave dug for the burial of his niece, Enoch Colby, 62 years old, suddenly gasped and fell dead in the Barrington cemetery.
Los Angeles.--- To youths who meddled with the train whistle, is attributed the loss of 12 lives and the injury to more than 200 persons near here.
Two Pacific electric trains collided, telescoping 2 cars and wrecking another at Vineyard Station.
A Nevada paper wants convicted murderers dropped into the shaft of a mine in that state which is 896 feet deep.
It says that a person falling will lose all consciousness after descending 400 feet, and the death to be found at the bottom of the shaft will be entirely painless and without any chance of bungling as on the gallows.
Winstead, Conn., Aug. 16--- John O'Meara of Canaan, a brakeman on the Poughkeepsie branch, was driven almost crazy by a bug.
While switching cars at Canaan, 20 miles west of here, the insect flew so deep into O'Meara's ear that Dr. Lee was unable to get it out.
O'Meara was taken to Hartford yesterday and Dr. St. John extracted the bug, which was still alive after being imprisoned nearly 2 days.
O'Meara said his head sounded like a buzz-saw. He was unable to sleep and suffered terrible pain.
A lawyer died in a provincial town and his fellow-lawyers wrote over his grave, "Here Lies A Lawyer And An Honest Man."
Not long after, the governor of the province visited the town and among other places visited the cemetery. When he came to the lawyer's grave he stopped, read the inscription once or twice, and turning to the head inspector said: "Look here, my friend; we wink at a good many things in this province, but I do object to your burying two men in one grave."
A curious story is told of a man in Michigan who was recently struck by lightning, which considerably singed the hair on his head, burnt a whisker completely off his cheek, blistered his neck and back, tore open the lower part of his boot and leaving him for dead.
By active exertions on the part of his friends, he was completely restored.
Salem, Ark., June 14--- Harvey Goatcher slept all night one night last week with a copperhead snake measuring more than 3 feet in length.
When he awoke in the morning he saw the snake's tail protruding from under the covers. He promptly killed it. The snake had evidently spent the night within the warm recesses of the bed and enjoyed his nap as much as his human companion.
Holt County Sentinel (Mo.) May 20, 1921
A RARE SPECIMEN
Lloyd Markt shot a bird last week, which was to him, a most strange specimen. He brought it to town, and on examination proved to be a fine specimen of the owl family, known as the "monkey-faced" or illuminating owl.
They are rare indeed, and is the second one ever captured in this section. The feathers are mainly white, and it is said that on a dark night, these feathers throw off a jet of sparks.
Lloyd had it sent to Charles Dankers, of Corning, the taxidermist, to have it mounted.
On October 1st, N.A. Crawford of Fairville was found in bed with his head cut off. The murder was committed by a young Englishman named Brinton, who is insane.
Brinton split Crawford's head with an ax while the latter was sleeping.
The Mirygdy is a giant hominid in eastern Siberia. It is 7 feet tall with a small head and strong upper body.
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