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Post by sloanrodgers on Sept 6, 2010 21:25:32 GMT -5
Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register, Houston, Texas Dec. 14, 1848
Bad Things - Pete Whetstone's notion of bad things is as follows, and we incline to think he is more than half right: "An unfaithful servant, a smoky house, a stumbling horse, a scolding wife, an empty purse, an undutiful child, a dull razor, tight boots, musquitoes, a fop, and a subscriber who wont pay for his paper."
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Post by TRK on Sept 7, 2010 9:51:30 GMT -5
Oh, yeah, Pete Whetstone. I've run across him once or twice before. He was one of those fictional newspaper correspondents whose dispatches you'll sometimes find in newspapers of that era. Google him; you'll find some of his other writings.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Sept 7, 2010 21:44:06 GMT -5
Yes, the Pete Whetstone of Devil's Fork letters were penned by Chuck Noland, but they were supposedly based on the character of Arkansas frontiersman Peter Whetstone, who later moved on to Texas. The real Whetstone went on to become a sometime outlaw and respectable East Texas citizen before he was killed in the Regulator-Moderator War.
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Post by sloanrodgers on Sept 13, 2010 23:34:50 GMT -5
Here's an interesting and macabre quote from a October 9, 1852 Northern Standard advertisement. It sure was easy to commit really painful or messy suicide back in the good old days of Texas.
"IF ANY PERSON WISHES TO GET "RID OF HIMSELF" let him buy some pure Stricknia, Arsenic and Prussic acid (cyanide) from McDONNA & RHINE"
Clarksville, August 20th
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Post by sloanrodgers on Sept 27, 2010 17:36:58 GMT -5
Bigfoot Wallace once considered a supernatural being. Spooky!
"From that time on the Indians dreaded the name Wallace. I remember once that someone told them Wallace was coming down to attack them and that night not a campfire was to be seen, not a dog barked, and everything was still as death. The Indians were not cowardly, but they seemed to regard Wallace as a supernatural being." ~ Rebecca Lee, 1900
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Post by sloanrodgers on Oct 3, 2010 23:17:50 GMT -5
"I like old San Antonio. It's a grand old city with many ancient cites. Well, manly I was in the old Alamo this morning. I see it every day. It is a sad old place." ~ David T. Crockett, 1897
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Post by sloanrodgers on May 17, 2011 22:36:16 GMT -5
"Elevate those guns a little lower" Apparently a statement by Andrew Jackson during a battle and not at a White House urinal.
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