Word: deere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Humans, deer, etc. .30 to .32 Optional; steel jacket considered more "sporting...
...deer was tame. "My little boy showed it to me through the window. My boy went out and whistled and called to it and it came to him," said one witness...
...deer was killed. "I saw the deer drinking from a little slough. Then the police car drove up and two men got out. One had a rifle. He fired a shot and struck the deer in the foot. The deer staggered up a little knoll. He fired again and it fell. Then he walked up and shot it through the head as it lay writhing on the ground," said another witness...
...killer of the deer was Chief of Police H. M. Haight of Park Ridge, Ill. (suburb of Chicago). He took it to a butcher, had it dressed, ate it with his friends. Last week he was called before Police Magistrate Homer Byrd, who told him: "I have been your friend for years. I did not want to try this case. . . . You insisted I pass judgment. Well, I will fine you $75 and costs and tell you that if there is anything more unsportsmanlike than what you did I don't know of it. To walk up and shoot...
...except Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (6293 ft.), still frequented by Cherokee Indians, the new park will be advertised as a rival of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that one would find in a trip from Georgia to the St. Lawrence-including flourishing chestnuts (now moribund from Pennsylvania north), holly, magnolia, the rare yellowwood...