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A LOT OF bones! 51
settler remarked. And it took a lot 'The lot of bones referred to were
of bones to fill a car. brought from the Cimarron river.
The dealing center in Dodge City about 60 miles south of Dodge . . .
was the Wright, Beverly and Com' Our merchants, we believe, are paying
pany store. The June 3, 1879, Ford about $6 per ton for these bones,
County Globe ran this information on which they ship east to be ground up
the Dodge trade: and used for fertili2;er and other pur'
"In one day last week ten wagon' poses." loads of bones, weighing 49,290 The Topeka Mail and Breeze said,
pounds, were weighed on the scales at ''Allowing 40 feet for a car, which is
Wright, Beverly and Company's store, really crowding 'em in, it would make
Since the settlement of the country a string of cars 7,575 miles long —
around Dodge, picking bones has be' enough to more than fill two tracks
come a favorite resort for the from New York to San Francisco." granger . . . That's a lot of bones!
*Tm gonna hang around till your boy friend comes," the kid brother said to his sister. "He always gives me a quarter to go to the movies."
"It's a Marine tonight," she answered, "so here's a dollar, and you stay right here."
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A man got up out of bed at two a.m., threw a robe over his pajamas and galloped down two flights of stairs to the landlord's flat. He rapped sharply on the door, which was finally opened by the sleepy landlord.
"I just want to inform you," he blurted out, "I won't be able to pay the rent this month."
"Why wake me in the middle of the night?" the owner asked. "Couldn't that wait until morning?"
"Sure," the man admitted. "But why should I worry alone?"
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When old man Jones' lawyer learned that his client had inherited two million dollars and five per cent interest in an oil company, he told his secretary, "I'll have to break the news to him gently or the old coot will drop dead from the shock. Now, watch how I do it."
The aged Mr. Jones was wheeled into his lawyer's office and crossly demanded to know what was up.
"Mr. Jones," began the lawyer softly, "what would you say if I told you you had inherited a couple of million dollars?"
Jones cackled, "Say? Why, Jim, you danged fool, I'd say that half of it goes to you."
The lawyer dropped dead.
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