Accommodating Driver Also Superintendent in Rural South
An anecdote from a traveler recalls a Confederate gray dressed driver who served as both superintendent and operator of a two car mule line. He waited for a passenger, helped children, and then retrieved a trunk from a house before continuing the ride, impressing the observer with his dual roles and courtesy.
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Hansbrough
Ansbrough
Iyte
Washington
Mississippi
L—— Junction
Transportation Service
Chicago
Chicago Post
Badge Saves Gambs era Man From Hanging Story
A Gamma Beta dinner recounts a captain’s Civil War hostage tale. Jim Roberts, pinned for possible hanging, outsmarts his captors with a cigar and a jeweled badge. A Confederate officer recognizes the emblem, frees him, and later appears in a southern chapter.
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Gamma Beta
Arkansas
Jim Roberts
Roberts
For Sale and Estray Notices from Bottineau Area
A mixed set of notices lists cattle for sale or trade and several estray declarations. Items include one yoke of young work cattle with a cutaway harrow offered by W. H. McIntosh, plus multiple estray reports: bridle calf and black calf with white forehead, flocks of sheep, a bay horse colt and two foal mares, and a black hog. Names include OLivER SueRwin, C. G. Gorper, Johan Holdaas. locations Bottineau Mouse River Fish Lake Omemee Turtle Mountains and legal land references. Some personal narrative appears about a grave inscription dated July 8, 1868.
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W. H. McIntosh
Fish Lake
Color Bay
Colar
Estray
Turtle Mountains
Johan Holdaas
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Terry Bullting
Duluth
Chamber of Commerce
Minneapolis
Bottineau
North Dakota
McCandless
N. Dale
Condo
Major Fawcett
W. C.T. Us
C. A. MacNamara
Cando
Larry
Democratic Party
Republican Party
McHenry Co. Independent
Anton Svensrod
Blewarck
Svensuid
Heroe
Anager
Hin Nasdeinter
Fargo
The
Argus
People's Party
National Party
Shelley
Papa
Vietionmry
Sro
Gammsera
Oliver SueRwin
Mouse River
Jean Vepguam
C. G. Gorper
Lars Syverson
Omemee
R. R. Kirren
Bine
A. Gaeta, M.D
Bottinsay, N.D
McArthur's Drug Store
Willow City
N. A. Stewart
Buttineau
Houll
Keystone Watch Case Co
Philadelphia
Agnes
Riga
George Haacke
N. Dak
Bottineau Roller Mills
H. G. Kalbfleisch, Prop’r
Thomas
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