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and his raiders went on their way while the band of civilians walked back to town. Morgan was captured In one of the eastern Ohio counties and put in the penitentiary. He dug his way out, coming up on the outside of the wall and, I think, was never recaptured.Weil do 1 recall my father talcing me over to see Joe Bevis, a man about father's age. He showed us what he called the Tree of Life. It looked like a costumer as near as I can recollect, only it had.more straight arms sticking out all down the center and each arm painted a bright color. Said he was going to put it on his cemetery lot. I can see now he was a little eccentric.a • •The writer had violent red hair and freckles to give away. They told me that if I got up in the morning before the dew was off the grass and walked on it in my bare feet, the freckles would disappear. I did this religiously until I found out the idea was to get me up early. The boys—as boys always do—used to call me red head and intimate that the cows had something to do with my freckled condition. As a consequence, I was a pretty fair pugilist by the time I was ten years old. Have two scars on my head as mute testimony to my powers.I recall lots of wrangling about the gold standard and the nifty tokens that many concerns had coined after the war. They were the size of * penny and I still have one. It reads “I. N. Stires, Putnam, O.” on one aide and Good for five cents in trade’' on the other. These tokens passed the same as money and were accepted by everybody. Another thing I remember was the very brown paper they used in grocery stores for wrapping packages. Black sulphur matches were in common use in Ohio. They were manufactured in Zanesville and this was the first match factory built west of the Allegheny mountains.
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Zanesville Signal
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Thu, Feb 08, 1945
Page 17
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