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...awful hard thing for you to do for several reasons, viz., as follows and to wit: there is a substantial mortgage on this place. I do not keep any checking account, holding my cash in my left and right pants pockets and keeping my accounts on a clear pine board which I burn on March 16, after having made a true and honest accounting of my net income, if any . . . My legal advisers are two of the Justices of the New Hampshire Superior Court and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire . . . These gentlemen help themselves...
...Area of Vatican City: 108.7 acres; area of the famed Pine Valley, N.J. golf course: 200 acres...
After picking up his intermediary, wrote Nagaoka, he drove 20 miles to a spot where two men blindfolded him and led him into a deep pine forest. There the mask was taken off. "The moon was shining bright," reported Nagaoka, "and sitting on a huge rock three feet before me was the man I had come to interview." Not to be fooled, Nagaoka pulled out a photograph of Ito and compared it with the man's face. "Except for the grizzled tired face, the sharp gleaming eyes and the shabby suit," wrote Nagaoka somewhat ambiguously, "the man was undoubtedly...
Methodist Parson Hiram Milo Frakes had ridden his pony into the patch of Kentucky wilderness cut off by Big Pine and Little Log Mountains to bring religion and book learning to the dirt-poor, illiterate mountaineers. When Scott Partin found that out, he gave the parson some land to start building his school and church on. Bill Henderson was another Kentuckian who helped. He chipped in a 65-acre farm because "he'd rather his children would have an education than to have the farm." Before he could see the settlement that Parson Frakes made of his land, Bill...
...little white church with knotty pine paneling, ruddy, bald-domed Parson Frakes, now 62, got up to preach one of his last sermons as head of the settlement school, from which he is retiring to devote more time to the Methodist Home Board of Missions...