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...snake oil, skunk fat and fishing-worm oil into a joint to cure arthritis...
...Milky Way (by Lynn Root & Harry Clork; Sidney Harmon & James R. Ullman, producers). Besides skunk cabbages, Spring also produces here & there a bright-hued crocus. It was only to be expected that, somewhere within last week's vernal jungle of rank theatrical growths, one amusing piece would pop up its head. That piece is The Milky Way. Burleigh Sullivan (Hugh O'Connell) was a weakly child-"a Sagittarius baby," he recalls-who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world...
This time it is Colonel Charles R. (Break It Up) Apted '06 who has destroyed the Yard Peace. Quite inadvertently, he was forced to take drastic steps with the Yard skunk situation yesterday. Two firearms, a 38-calibre rifle and a pistol, emptied their loads in the general vicinity of the animal whose protests quickly dispersed onlookers. It was not until the fumigators finished with Massachusetts Hall late last night that the Yard became tenable again...
...Mortimer Mahoney, Christopher Morris, and Albert Roach sighted the Mephitis mephitida, ambling past University Hall. But it was not until the dawn brought Apted and the day force of John Connolly and James Reddin that the pursuit began in earnest. The strategy of an enveloping flank movement brought the skunk to bay at 4.30 o'clock at Johnston Gate, and a few minutes later he was making his final stand in the sunken window of Massachusetts Hall...
...scene from the haven of a first floor window. Then with set and courageous mien he stalked his prey over the parapet and emptied the contents of his two black six shooters into the quivering flesh. Satisfied by the sound of the six shots which evidently startied the skunk into a corpse, Apted, still calm, ordered his minions to inter the deceased in the midst of the stench-stained scene of carnage. It was a lonely service for few of the once optimistic on lookers could brave the horrors of the quieted battlefield...