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The Judge and the Tanner and Other Odd Tales
A collection of eccentric anecdotes and sketches from late 19th century life. Includes Judge Peeples meeting a former tanner who becomes a bank head, tales of maggot and ant merchants, a legendary Home of Gold, and moralizing notes on marriage and women alongside brief advertisements and notices. The pieces mix humor, sensationalism, and serialized gossip in a compact rural-urban newspaper voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawnsiower
Ren. Will
Benj. Fr. Till
North American Review
New York
TI. M. Slyndman
Leater
England
Henry Sehliemann
Troy
Ladies Floral Cabinet Co
Veseystradt
T. B. Prertinson & Brothuns
Philadelphia
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Ishmael
Ana Frontispiees
Preas
W. H. Thompson
Arch Street
Louisa
Catharine
Edward
Frederick Leicester
Lone
Leicester
Dow
St. Mary's .Church
Winterton
J. J
John Archer
Eve Wateralde
Atlanta Constitution
Cincinnatus Peoples
Hall County
Wilson
Atlanta
Peeples
Fifth Avenue
Judge Peeples
Paris
Saratoga
Venice
Blanche
Mademoiselle Blanche
Germany
Fortune
le Pere Ver-de-Ferre