Word: locking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Boys. Billy and Elizabeth Hull had five sons. First was Orestes, a smart boy who "made a doctor" and went to Louisiana where he died young "of a lock of the bowels." Second was Sanadius Selwin, who was a "Gamblin' Hull," wasted $30,000 of his pappy's money failing in business. Cordell was the third son by 7 months, and Cord became the favorite. Fourth was Wyoming Hull, who was known all his life as the "general"; sick as a. baby, he remained childish, wore Cord's old clothes, wandered about Carthage begging a quarter...
Fluttery Hilda Davis (wife of Dance-Band Leader Meyer Davis), who owns a lock of Lord Byron's hair, a page from the Gutenberg Bible, a promissory note for $100,000 made out to E. L. Doheny and signed by Ex-Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, announced with pride her purchase for $15,000 of the original manuscript of Johannes Brahms's First Symphony. Said she: "Isn't it thrilling...