Goats Stands Ground As Downtown Scene Hits Snag
In Boston era paper style a serene Billy goat blocks a 1914 box on wheels loaded with six boy riders on Massachusetts Avenue near Scott Circle. Bankers brokers lawyers and capitalists in early traffic mingle with startled pedestrians as the goat chews gum and refuses to budge. A blue clad lawman finally intervenes and takes the goat.
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Story Teller in Chief Faces Uphill Fight in House
Alabama representative Tom Heflin depart from tradition by telling two stories in one speech. His anecdotes lampoon a surgeon placing a cat s eye and a dyspeptic preacher declining chicken ham and soda biscuits, ending with a child shouting at his mother in astonishment.
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Hill
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How a North Carolina Moonshiner Won His Case
W P Pou of North Carolina recounts a tale of Reaves indicted for revenue law violations. The defense counsel advised folly to sway the court. In a summer-roasted courtroom Reaves wore an overcoat and acted foolish, prompting leniency. Years later as prosecutor the same Reaves admitted the plan. the lawyer admitted his earlier role.
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W. Pou
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Reaves
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Why John Sharp Williams Never Joined the Army
A humorous reminiscence explains that John Sharp Williams, though inspired by the Civil War era call to arms, never served in the Confederate army. At age eleven he set off with lunch and imagination, but Uncle Zeph quickly redirected the boy back home, ending the episode with a playful, folksy pull from a mule.
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