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  1. “The Evergreen Star says a store in that place was broken open a few nights ago, but the burglars found the goods marked so high they could not afford to take them.”

  2. That is too funny about the store in being broke into. what a laugh.

  3. Guess they didn’t really want to steal after all.;)

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  6. […] We are told that the City Council have resolved to get rid of the goats in our city. They will send to Africa and import a boa constrictor – starve him a few weeks (easily done in the present condition of the City Treasury), and then turn Mr. Boa loose among the goats. Good-bye, Billy. (see more about the goat story at this link: Throwback Thursday […]

  7. “Marriageable young ladies will take notice, that Ashville, St. Clair county is a fine field, as is shown, by census statistics, that there are five young men to one young lady in that locality.”

    A saying among women in Alaska is –
    “Men outnumber women, so the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”

  8. […] We are told that the City Council have resolved to get rid of the goats in our city. They will send to Africa and import a boa constrictor – starve him a few weeks (easily done in the present condition of the City Treasury), and then turn Mr. Boa loose among the goats. Good-bye, Billy. (see more about the goat story at this link: Throwback Thursday […]

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