Legend of the North End Myrtle Mike Wild tale
The piece recounts Mike Wild a Boston North End grocer famed for thrift who dies and a spectral hoax in 1776. A ghost visits him promising hidden treasure under an elm, leads to a nocturnal dig that ends with a revealed prank by a neighbor who duped Mike to win a bet at the Boar's Head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North End
Mike Winn
Boston
Mr. Wild
Grannary
Mike
Peter Rug
Douglas
Macbeth
Ford
The
Kentucky Gazette
Aire Trotter
Danville
Marrodsburg
Kentucky River
Patrick C. Flournoy
Amu
Tom Tough
Prodigious Appetite and Courtroom Quips Across Times
A collection of curious anecdotes on human appetite from Siberian travelers and a humorous judicial anecdote about debt imprisonment. Also includes social wit on fashion, manners, and a Paris dressmaker remark, with light notes about a Creek Indian treaty and a shopkeeper urging a lady on clothing.
Important market note for farmers 9
Advertises water rotted and dressed hay as market ready at 9 12 50 per ton or half share. Claims water rotted hay is essential for proper fitting in market. Dated March 10 1830 from Portland with inquiries to Mewers Giut Co and Isaac A Matsey Forward na Merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EG Andae
James Belden
Mewers
M. Giut
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pulaski
I. W. Longfellow
Savannah
Bethlehem
Pennsylvania
Ronny
Lis
Johnson
Asia
Europe
Saritchall
Tungouse
Siberia
New England Galaxy
South Carolina
Wisk
Lowell
France
Lady Morgan
Duchess de Berri
Victorine
Justice’s
Huron
Sandusky
Robert Wilcor
New- York
Jonathan Door
Benjamins. Fassett
Leonard Darby
Robert Wilcox
Jonathan Dorr
B.S. Passer
Ltonard Daray
America
Barnwn & Stevenson
Scuacuriooks
N.Y
Barnum & ‘Stevenson
Marcom M’natanton
Ronerr Kennepy
Joan Kennepy
Joseen Brown
Journal OF Law
Journal of Health
Chesnut Street
Philadelphia
Bury
Jouxsey
Norwalk Academy
Norwalk
Job
Douglass
Asa Nowne
Nancy
Mick Douglass
Jonathan Douglass
Neehard Douglass
Sally
Mary Petterson
Naren
Perkins
Aloo
Corned
P. Latimer
Len
Rae
Windsor
William Gallup
C. Wwcarty
P. Latimer & Co
New York
Ife
Berese Academy
WY. PL
Mardles Norwalk
Foi
Q . BZ Es Tan
Clarksfield
Hmuron County
Ohio
Samuel Husted
Ell Bert & Howard
Carpenter's
John Ebbert, Jr
Lewis M. Howard
GEM
Edwin Scrantom
Rochester
Fector
Ant
Gee
Leplatt Benedict
Jan
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!