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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masked mob of several hundred men and boys broke into the jail. Sheriff John Thomas tried to fight them off, to protect his prisoner. He was bashed over the head, had his skull fractured. The lynchers whisked Green three miles out of town by motor, tied him to a tree, tore his body to shreds with bullets...
...suspected of dynamiting the Plant City home of one J. L. Waller with whom he had been on bad terms, was evilly spirited away by a masked mob from the hands of deputy sheriff Tobe Robinson. Later a woodcutter found his bullet-punctured body suspended from a tree...
...issue of the same newspaper which sponsored those in the first paragraph: Shali's gilded motor car shipped to Persia today. . . Finds honey in rafters. . . Queen Mary's collection of embroidery exhibited. . . Thinks he saw Great Pagoda from flagpole. . . Parrot embargo makes bedlam of quiet town. . Volunteer killed as tree falls. . . Horse takes motor parts; owner put on probation. . Yonkers bans all-night parking. . Flea bites please dogs for a time, says expert
Verano, the dry, summer season of Spanish-America, left its mark in parched river beds and many leafless trees, some bearing weird green fruits, others ablaze with blossoms, yellow, white or pink. These conditions in the lowlands made plant hunting not as favorable as in the hills, for there vegetation grew thickly because of the continual moisture, supplied by low-lying clouds. Here scores of odd lichens, curious, climbling epiphytic plants, growing on all available tree trunks in the darkly forested places gave witness to the unending persistency of jungle life, besides affording rich material for the steel cases...
Hunting Brazilian tigers as practiced by Alexander Siemel requires a few courageous mongrel dogs, a high-powered rifle with a bayonet attached or a six-foot spear. The dogs trail the tiger. If they tree it, Hunter Siemel shoots it through the head. (If shot through the heart, the beasts sometimes live long enough to claw a dog to death.) If the dogs run a tiger into a cave, Hunter Siemel goes in after it, spear or bayonet in hand. That, he says-for he is a sportsman as well as a businessman-is the finest way to kill...