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‘Murder Comes In 12 Year Cycles To Sidney’

These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons.

100 YEARS AGO

‘Tossed By A Bull’

March 22, 2013

The 14th, Black Friday, was a good day to stay where you were, and nearly everyone had to. A call came from the Carlton ranch that a man, Mr. Eber, had been severely injured by a bull. Dr. Swatzlander, having no other means of locomotion to be secured for love or money, made the trip by walking down the railroad. The sensation was just like being “it” in blind man’s bluff, for eyes...

 

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