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...Buzzard speaks of his late brother Abe humbly, with a certain amount of family pride. Says Joe: "He was the best derned hoss thief in the country." If Joe is not so good a horse thief as his brother, he is equally persistent. The first time he was caught stealing a horse from a farmer in Lancaster County, Pa. was in 1878. The last time...
...equipment, which is stored in a common fund in Washington and shipped to field operatives in plain wooden boxes. To determine whether the results of intrastate tapping are admissible as evidence, the Department of Justice announced that material it has gathered regarding a Washington gambling syndicate headed by one Abe Plisco, alias Jewboy Dietz, might soon be used in a test case...
...Fort Bragg. Calif., nobody believed that forehanded Abe Triplett was going to kill himself when he picked a spot under a big tree, permitted himself to be photographed digging his grave (see cut ). Nobody believed it when he went home, built himself a coffin. Two days later Fort Bragg found it was wrong...
...first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land from Old Bas, was an aristocrat. He brought slaves and blooded horses; pretty soon he brought a wife, who was a real lady...
Many memorabilia of "Honest Abe", as well as the axe, and of the Civil War period in general, are included in the historical exhibit. The objects range in size from the formidable ten pound woodchopper to an early photograph showing him in his young and beardless days. In the writings they vary from a terse notice announcing his return to private life to the twelve hundred pages of "Gone With the Wind," which was included for reasons which the reporter was unable to discover...