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Stumpage Reports
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Thursday, August 19, 2004 :::
I can't articulate the crumbling of the weblog-industrial-complex any better than Ed did. I've been kinda absent for a week or so, but I've just been busy and uninspired. I've been collected a lot more Confederate Monument material in the last year I've just been throwing in a pile, and I've been using my free time to try and organize that. I hope to start soon writing something about it, hoping to get it published in a historical journal, but still plan on popping in on this blog a couple times a week.
For now, here's a couple more weird old newspaper stories I ran across. They are both from the Lexington, NC paper "The North State Weekly," September, 20, 1905:
Killed By Hook and Ladder Wagon
While enroute to a fire Thursday night the Winston hook and ladder truck ran into John Holloman, a married man, aged about thirty-five, knocking him down and crushing his skull. One wheel of the truck ran over Holloman's back and head. The hook and ladder truck weighs over six thousand pounds. Several men were on it when the accident occured. Mr. Holloman died next evening from the result of his injuries. No blame is attached to the hook and ladder people for the unfortunate occurrence.
Legs Ground Into Pulp
Greensboro Negro Meets with Fearful Accident
Yancey Sloan, a highly respected colored man, aged sixty, was run over by a shifting engine at the passenger station crossing this morning. Both legs were ground into pulp and internally injured. He is living, never losing consciousness. He was rushing across the track, gates being down, to catch the waiting street car on the opposite side.
::: posted by tom at 3:13 PM
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