Fodder Field Tales of Snakes and a Fast Escape
Sanger Perscerr recalls old days working fodder with two rows and a restless pup. He recounts a chase from a thicket by coachwhip snakes grappling his dog, his frantic sprint across fields, and a chaotic gate race ending with Dick Holland restraining him. The memory blends rural labor, danger, and neighborly bonds in Pike County.
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Bob Wackett
Pike
Puckett
Briara
Wagoner
Bob Puckett
Dirk Holland
Texaa
Mike
Pucketts
Bob Hackett
Sanger Perscerr
Law Rules for Notes and Debts From Daily Use
A set of legal maxims covers void notes made on Sunday or by minors. Fraud, illegality, and lack of consideration void notes. Signatures on pencil are valid. Principals bind agents. Notice of protest rules vary by place and method. Indorsers share liability, with rules for notices and limitations. A Sydney professor allegedly created an adjustable artificial larynx for voice control.
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Bas
Sydney
Australia
Stuart
University of Sydney
From Motes in Stall to Millionaire Makers and Storm News
A long readable tale shows how small ideas trigger big fortunes through innovators like Cornell who founded the American District Messenger service after paying $2000 for a device to manage office boys. It charts Gould’s patent success and a New England saws crisis solved by chilled steel shot, then records a severe New York electrical storm with injuries including a man losing part of an ear and a police shoe being torn off.
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Aaman
Alonzo U. Cornell
Jower Broadway
New York
Cornell
Iis
Subte
Aiity
American District Messenger Service
Charles Gould
Buffalo
Gould
Washington
United States
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Tillman
Union Hill
N. d
Joseph Schoenig
Middletown
N.J
Walter Stevens
Stevens
Twins boastful girl misleads neighbor tale from Miley
A local joke recounts James Witcomb Miley telling of twins near Indianapolis one sister punished by indoor confinement while the other paraded in new clothes to gain favor. Neighbors ask which twin she is and the child boasts to be the good twin out walking.
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Evang Pharmacy
Robert Flournoy
Brickyard
Ala
Moffett
Sultan of Johore
DeWitt
DeWitt's
Hivans’ Pharmacy
Liver Merford
James Witcomb Miley
Miley Ou
Indianapolis
Ace
Chloronaphthol Healing Agent for Humans and Animals
Evans Pharmacy advertises CHLORO-NAPTHOLEUM as a healing salve for sores and wounds in humans and animals. It claims use on horses cattle bog and chicken cholera, as a dip and wash, insecticide for beetles roaches and pests, and for destroying pests on vegetation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans Pharmacy
Beattie Receiver Takes Control of Blue Ridge Railroad
H. O. Beattie named receiver for the Blue Ridge Railroad effective February 25 1900. Courts assign management to stabilize finances and operations amid ongoing restructuring efforts.
Birdsall or White Hickory Wagons For Sale In Barnesville
Notice to creditors. All persons having demands against A. Davie deceased must present them proven to the undersigned executor at the time proscribed by will. J Son Executor. Aug 29, 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnesville
Vandiver Bros. & Major
A. Davie
Taye
J Son Exenyior
Veterans burial notice and subscription offer
The Intelligencer notes a veteran burial in Nashville Tennessee and offers a monthly subscription rate for the period ending January 1900. The undecipherable figures reference subscription averages for several years and an invitation to apply for annual copies of the paper.
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Sunningham
Hville
Tenn
Tires and Wheels Setting In New Charleston Carolis Era
Fragmentary note discusses tire setting and painting work, mentions Paul, Charleston, Augusta, and Ai in relation to wheels and tires..readable facts are limited. core items are tires, painting, and named places.
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Paul
Charleston
Carolis Augusta
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Daily Dail
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Ty Bavon
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Newberry
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