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Meanwhile, in nineteenth-century Kansas...
When a man "made some remarks derogatory to the character of Mrs Antonia Fell" she went after him with a pair of cowhide whips and administered a 'severe castigation'!
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— Illustrated Police News (US ed., 1877)
When a man "made some remarks derogatory to the character of Mrs Antonia Fell" she went after him with a pair of cowhide whips and administered a 'severe castigation'!
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— Illustrated Police News (US ed., 1877)
He fled into a drugstore; she whipped him in there too.
When bystanders interfered, she threatened to whip 'em.
If he took her to court? She promised to "give him another dose" of the whip so "that the court may see for itself how it was done, and save explanation."
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When bystanders interfered, she threatened to whip 'em.
If he took her to court? She promised to "give him another dose" of the whip so "that the court may see for itself how it was done, and save explanation."
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This Wisconsin girl didn't take kindly to 'insulting proposals' either!
— IPN 1876
— IPN 1876
I just love the phrase 'panned out' here!
— IPN 1876
— IPN 1876
A 'graceless scamp' was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this 'Amazon on Skates' spectacularly intervened.
According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!
— IPN (1877)
![A 'graceless scamp' was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this 'Amazon on Skates' spectacularly intervened. According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!— IPN (1877)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgHtXLNWkAATcDQ.jpg "A 'graceless scamp' was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this 'Amazon on Skates' spectacularly intervened. According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!— IPN (1877)")
![A 'graceless scamp' was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this 'Amazon on Skates' spectacularly intervened. According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!— IPN (1877)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgHuuvDX0AAyKoQ.png "A 'graceless scamp' was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this 'Amazon on Skates' spectacularly intervened. According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!— IPN (1877)")
![A 'graceless scamp' was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this 'Amazon on Skates' spectacularly intervened. According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!— IPN (1877)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EgHuvTCXkAUoETx.png "A 'graceless scamp' was harassing a group of ice skating women in Wisconsin until this 'Amazon on Skates' spectacularly intervened. According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!— IPN (1877)")
According to reports, 'the avenger glided [across] from the opposite bank' and absolutely took him to pieces!
— IPN (1877)
