Chased With a Cleaver
A lighthearted local item about a butcher and a restaurant owner chasing each other down a San Antonio street with a cleaver and a knife, a small comic scene from the city's daily life.
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San Antonio Daily Light · March 22, 1895 · Page 1
1 min readBad blood is existing between a German butcher and a colored restaurant man, who do business on Avenue D, a few doors from each other. Yesterday morning an amusing scene transpired on this thoroughfare. It was a lively chase between the butcher and the restaurant man. The former had a cleaver and the latter a large knife, and the big German chased the Negro, and vice versa, until both were winded, when they decided it a draw. It may be resumed some future day.
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