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¶ An old English couple, stranded on the Riviera, go spookily senile. A self-styled inventor, he arranges elaborate booby-traps for duns; she collects cats. When the landlord sniffs a rat he finds the old man has been dead for days, the old woman pretending not to notice.
Throughout the early years of the igth Century, U. S. social thinking was concentrated on the abolition of Negro slavery and the formation of experimental Utopian communities of the character of Brook Farm. Strangest and strongest of these colonies was the Oneida Community at Oneida, N. Y., stronghold of "communism...
¶Major event of the Grand American Trapshoot, official name for the whole program of events at Vandalia, is the Grand American Handicap, in which anyone with a registered handicap may enter to shoot from a line measured off from the traps at a distance corresponding to his rating. The...
"It was the Depression," explained Inventor Merkl. "Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and...
To reporters Merkl explained that he had been trained in Germany as a copper wire net maker, started making traps to catch rats and weasels that were killing his Ossining hens. The American Humane Association gave him a prize for the most humane animal trap and Merkl went into business...