Mammy and the Farm Sale in South Carolina Picaresque Tale
A Charleston writer recalls Civil War era memories and a neighboring farmer tale. A neighbor Hans buys Simpson’s worn farm with cash, sparking Crumple’s scathing critique of Simpson’s farming, while Hans earns praise for industry. The piece blends stories of old enslaved life, family, and frontier ethics with a humorous alligator yarn and a geology of truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Simpson
Hans Leibenstein
Simpson
Hans
Sally
Man Simpson
Bor
Youxere
Fashion to History and a Curious Kentucky Eunuch
A passage links fashion origins to masking defects from crinoline in Spain to hoops and high heels. It also describes a bizarre Kentucky mummy claim about a four foot five inch womanlike figure found in Barren County with preserved features, drawing crowds. A mother and child catechism quip closes the piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barren County
Day Before Mishap Over Euchre Deck Causes Parry
Mrs Bliss finds a euchre deck in her son’s pocket on Mallet Street. She scolds him with a theatrical exchange about trumps and bowers as she discipline him with a rough hand and plays a lone hand.
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Bowers
Hoyle
Fashionable city girl chased by mad bull in country lane
A Morristown Pennsylvania reader recalls a rural incident where a city visitor, wearing a dashed hat and dress, tried to flee a charging bull. She toppled a gate and escaped over a fence, the bull passing with her dress torn on his horns. The tale sits beside note about Missouri grasshoppers and a Johnson county corn prize.
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Terbacker
Vicksburg
Oleans
Allus
Nancy Jane
Tom
Morristown
Shady Lane
Missouri
Johnson County
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Southern District of Georgia
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Co Public
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South Lumpkin Street
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Fort Gaines
Virginia
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Cuthbert, GA
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Sally Simpson
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Pappy
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Male High School
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A Mercantile Department
M. A. McNulty
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Board of Instruction
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Jassie Wann
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Jeweler
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H. J. Geeslings
College Street
Satterwhite Hotel
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Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
G. B. W. Ellis
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