Local notes from the Esilicht file recall community moves
Murmured items from twenty four years ago recall pastor Tracy officiating moving stock into new quarters and a handsome school building opening in Lake City. Families Newsom Barbe Callison Flowers Westmoreland and others are noted in homes and visits. Some illness and guests mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tracy
Lake
E. B Newsom
C. R. Barbe
M. D. DiIyall
Heyes Stephens
JR. Westmoreland
Hie Cohim
Oil turns paupers into fortunes in Ohio tale
In Marietta Ohio two elderly men, long idle after hard work and job scarcity, drilled for oil in a county poorhouse yard. They struck a neat flow, were offered 5000 dollars each, and escaped pauper status. The tale shows how luck and oil sands reshaped lives within a flawed modern system.
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Marietta
Mgs
Ohio
Oklahom
Someting
Goodhick
Homemade Mouse Trap Lets Mole Catch Mice With Ease
Readers share practical pest solutions from the Southern Agriculturist and local notes. A Miss Gil bert of Mississippi explains a fruit jar trap using a tin flap to trap a mouse. Max W. Chaney of North Carolina describes drowning rats by a baited submerged tub. The Clarksville Times rails at overreach by public authorities, while a shop ad promotes non substitution of prescriptions at Joe Luna's.
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Wei
Mamye Gilbert
Agriculturist
Max W. Chaney
North
Caroline
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Plymouth
Joe Lyn
Wight
Houston
Johnson
Clarksville
Joe Luna
San Jacinto
Bill Tube
Walker
Washington
Webster’s
IGA
Maxwell House Coffee
Wees
Baker’s
Kellogg’s
Pioneer
Mellon
Maine
Frank Areencass
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