Mrs. N. H. Waller had a spider taken out of her ear the other day which crawled in while she was asleep.
-from the Clinton Public, Clinton, Illinois, Feb 23, 1883
TWEETS OF OLD
We attempt to reveal the lives of our predecessors through the tweets of yesteryear
Frankling Mangham shot the top off one of his fingers with a pistol. Lucky that it wasn’t his head.
-from the Jackson News, Butts County,Georgia, January 11, 1882
Chas. Richey cut his left hand badly Monday while cutting strings from a package.
-from the Clinton Register, Friday, September 8, 1899, Clinton, Illinois
Some low down hound swiped a milk bucket containing 2 tickets for the lacteal fluid off of Bremser’s gatepost last week.
-from the Waterloo Republican Times, Waterloo, Illinois, 1900
Ole Peterson was arrested at Palermo on a charge of selling stolen flax.
-from the Carson Press, June, 1909, Carson, North Dakota
A young woman in Dakota who works 160-acres, says she could work twice that if marriage-minded men would stop bothering her.
-from the Vernon Courier, Vernon, Alabama, 1887
“Hank” Riggs is running his cider mill at full blast and producing a prime quality of “bug” juice.
-from the Austin Statesman, July 1888
Spontaneous combustion is supposed to be the cause of the fire that destroyed the barn of John Stoner, two miles north of Bethalto.
Fire Destroys Stoner Barn
Spontaneous combustion is supposed to be the cause of the fire that destroyed the barn of John Stoner, two miles north of Bethalto. The fire broke out at three o’clock in the afternoon. Mr. Stoner was in Bethalto at the time, and his wife was alone on the farm. She said the flames broke out suddenly in all parts of the barn. She tried to untie the livestock in the barn, but was unable to do that on account of the flames. One mule and two calves perished in the fire. Twenty-five loads of hay, and all the farm machinery were in the barn as well as a storm buggy and a motorcycle. All were lost in the fire. from the Alton Evening Telegraph, July 26, 1919
After the storm Sunday Uncle Jimmy Goldsmith gathered up hail and made ice cream.
-from the Osage County Chronicle, near Lyndon, Kansas, May 14, 1908
John Buss, who has no superior, and but few equals, as a gardener, has our thanks for some choice beets.
-from the Robinson Argus, Crawford County, Illinois, 1888
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