Showing posts with label farmer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farmer. Show all posts
Sunday, May 4, 2008

In Jail for Dog Tax

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New York, 1895 Gustave Ritchenbach, a farmer, living at West Hills, near Huntington, was taken to the county jail in Riverhead Wednesday mor...

Sudden Death of a Farmer

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New York, 1895 Abram Bennett of Queens dropped dead yesterday morning from heart disease. He was a well known farmer and an exemplary citize...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

The Polka Dot

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1919 Because in 1835 a Bohemian peasant girl danced a new step in a little village near the Polish border a Hungarian dancing master introdu...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

The Boy Who Tipped the Scales to a Generous 450 Pounds

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Raised In Nebraska Not long ago one of the most corpulent persons in the country died at Cedar Rapids, Neb. His name was C. Hemingson and hi...
Friday, May 18, 2007

Farmer Solves Mystery of Disappearing Chickens

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Indiana, 1906 CAUGHT CHICKEN THIEF Thomas Covington Solves Mystery of Disappearing Fowls Repeated thefts of chickens from the farm of Thomas...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Twin Chickens from One Egg – Farmer Won't Sell Them

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1899 Twin Chickens Twenty-five dollars for a pair of spring chickens is a liberal price, yet a Massachusetts farmer rejected it. His pair of...
Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Wire Replacing Old-Time Fence

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1921 Stone Walls, Split Rails and Hedges Rapidly Being Discarded by Farm Owners MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENTS Essential That Ends and Cornets Be E...
Monday, May 7, 2007

Adept at Marriage Game: Five Days, She's Gone, Wants Money

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1910 Judge Scores Woman Says She Has Been In Game Long Enough to Be Adept. WASHINGTON, Ind., Feb. 17. — In granting a divorce to Ephraim Hog...
Friday, May 4, 2007

A Chinese Trick Explained — "Melican Man Do Findee Out"

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1878 George III, it is reported, was once puzzled when eating apple dumplings to know how the apple got inside the dumpling. During a recent...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Cow's Tail Wedged Between Ice Cakes

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1920 Farmer Has to Chop Animal Out With an Ax. WANDSVILLE, Maine — Twice a day Samuel Fatts, a dairyman of this village, lets h is cows out ...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

The Insane Fighting Farmer Taken Through Disguise

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Harlan, Iowa, 1903 The Fighting Farmer Taken Sheriff Stewart and Aids Garbed As Farmers, Capture Arthur Sherlock Near Harlan Harlan, March 1...
Friday, April 20, 2007

Young Man Dies of Exposure, Farmer Turned Him Out of the House

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Stout, Iowa, 1903 FOUND DEAD IN BUGGY SHED Unknown Man Turned Out of Farmer's Home at Stout Dies of Exposure. Dike, March 3. — A case of...
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Battle in a Pig Pen

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1901 Minnesota Farmer is Savagely Attacked by Hogs Which He Goes to Feed Winona, Minn., Dec. 28.—Eugene D. Logan of Ridgeway lies in the hos...
Saturday, April 14, 2007

Boy, Aged 6, Falls 6 Stories Unhurt

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1920 NEW YORK, N. Y. - Although he had fallen from the roof of a six-story tenement house and escaped injury, all that scared 6-year-old Tom...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Deaf and Dumb, Insane 42 Years, Ends His Life

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1913 ESCAPES ASYLUM BY SUICIDE Pauper, Born Deaf and Dumb, Ends Long Life As Public Charge BEACON, N. Y., Nov. 12 — Levi Bodine, deaf and du...

Father Has Son Kill Him, Says It's Not Loaded

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1911 FATHER PREVAILS ON SON TO KILL HIM Tells Boy to Shoot, Saying Gun Wasn't Loaded Greenwich, Conn., May 19.—Fred Husted, a prosperous...

Lafayette's Ashes Buried With Dog

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1911 ASHES BURIED WITH DOG Lafayette's Funeral at Edinburgh Witnessed by Tremendous Crowd Edinburgh, May 15.—Lafayette's unurned ash...
Saturday, April 7, 2007

The Sun and the Father's Will

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1905-- Back of the loaf is the snow flour, Back of the flour, the mill; And back of the mill is the wheat and the shower, The sun and the Fa...
Thursday, April 5, 2007

Man Drowns In River, Friends on Bank Thought He Was "Fooling"

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1909-- RESULT OF A BLAST. Thrown Into the Sioux River by an Explosion and was Drowned Before He Could be Rescued....
Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Felling Tree Costs $60,000

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1920 ---------- Farmer's Act Puts Heavy Losses on Power and Factory Plants JACKSON, Mich., May 20. -- When a farmer near Frankenmuth, Sa...