The Olden Times Updates Newsletter
January 16, 2002
Hi Ya'll!
I hope your holidays were wonderful and filled with family and friends. I'm deeply grateful that we're each able to celebrate according to our various faiths. May you and your families be safe and enjoy the blessings of Freedom through this New Year, and may we all - one day - enjoy the blessings of Peace once again.
I hope you're all a heck of a lot healthier than we've been lately! Last week my 9-year-old and I both came down with horrible respiratory infections. With the way my cough sounds, I could do the special effects for a Godzilla Morphs Into Pneumonia movie! Today is the first day I have been able to get out of bed - quite literally.
However, I'm vertical again and I expect to be back up to speed soon, and of course getting my 9-year-old back into Top Notch Sass again is my first priority. Poor little guy just can't quit coughing. Even his 10-year-old brother is feeling sorry for him, so you know he's a sick puppy!
I'm sorry if you've emailed me and not yet received a reply - I'm "behinder" than ever.
Heck, who knows? If I answered you within a certain 24-hour window last week, as I was starting to get sick, no telling what I wrote back! So if you haven't heard from me, you might just count your blessings!
For those of you who are new subscribers, this portion of The Olden Times is not indexed by the FreeFind search engine's spider, so you have the advantage of the updates and the bimonthly index of locations only if you're a subscriber.
For whatever that's worth. Hey - at least it's free!
Enter this drawing for a chance to win some free books! The University of North Carolina Press is giving away books, and the next drawing is March 15, 2002.
Speaking of books, I've added tons of new titles to the Bookstore! From local histories to genealogy reference books, there's quite a variety of reading material for our to browse through. There's also a selection of gifts, a great assortment of journals, diaries and blank books, and lots more good stuff. I try to add something new at least weekly, and if you've visited those pages, be sure to hit "refresh" so that you view the most recent version of each page.
Thank you so much to all of you who have supported this website, whether you have purchased a genealogy CD from Genealogy.com,
printer ink from All-Ink.com,
holiday gifts from Amazon.com, or simply sent me a supportive email. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Don't forget, the Bookstore is now open, and I try to add new titles, CDs or really neat gifts on a regular basis. There is also a terrific selection of discount printer supplies and inkjet refill kits, so please remember The Olden Times when the printer runs dry!
Well, in the spirit of Florence Nightingale, I'd better sign off here and tend to my little one with his breathing treatment, which his brother used to take frequently for his asthma, but which turn out to be not all that much fun when you're not envying an older sibling....
Please stay safe, and remember those glorious words, e pluribus unum.
Out of many, one.
As always, thanks for your patience, and thanks for visiting.
Barbara
Names Added Since the Last Update
Locations Mentioned Since the Last Update
Notable
Green-Eyed Monster Inspires Suicide Attempt, 1874 HOWARD, GRAY, BONSIEUR
Guests at the Bates Hotel, Indianapolis, Oct. 1874 Nahhhhh....
PIRTLE Grandchildren Find Odd Legacy, Fannin Co., 1913
Cooke County Twister Throws ZIMMERMAN Mule for a Loop, 1913
McNULTY Falls into Vat of Lye, 1872
Finnish Immigrant GABRIELSON Declares Intent, 1910
That infuriating press! Newspaper Editor Shot at for Offensive Remarks, 1857 MULKEEN, DORR And Geraldo thought he had it bad.
DIX Returns from Inspection of Texas Border Wars, 1913
Borrowed Horse Not Returned! TULLIS, MERRIFIELD
Crimes & Politics (Am I being redundant?)
SLANDER Arrested for Murder of Wife, 1872
A Whole Herd of Black Sheep from Detroit:
- Assault & Battery - BURKHARDT
- Malicious Trespass - LARGE
- Simple Larceny - DELANEY
- Disturbing the Peace - STECHMEIER & SMITH
- Disturbing the Peace - JEFFERSON & BURHEA
- Drunk - BEATTY, POGUE, DUNN, ALLEN, ANDREW, HAYMAN, SHEPPARD Must've been some party!
BOGIE Charged with Cutting ORMOND, NM, 1903
Officer SLACKS Murdered, PA, 1872
HART Convicted at Carlsbad, 1903
Arrested for Disturbing the Peace, 1891 NICHOLSON, RANDALL
Cemeteries
Spring Hill, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney, Collin County, 2, 4
Churches
Memorial Lutheran Church, Shippensburg, Pennsylvania
Limestone County Baptist Association Selects Missionary, 1910
German Evangelic Lutheran Church, Indianapolis, Indiana
St. John's Episcopal Church, Tacoma, Washington
Fraternal
TAYLOR and BURTON Announce Phoenix Lodge Meeting, 1919
Immigration/Migration
Finnish Immigrant GABRIELSON Declares Intent, 1910
ALLEN from Tennessee to Texas, 1882
Migrations
KARPER from Pennsylvania to Virginia
Accidents & Disasters
McNULTY Falls into Vat of Lye, 1872
Rather Gruesome Railroad Fatality, 1898 RICH
Old Patent Medicine Advertising
Diseases
"Stroke of paralysis" - known today as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or a "stroke."
Old Cartoons & Humor
Dat's My Li'l' Boy, 1898 An example of "dialect poetry" popular around the latter 19th century.
Hitched, 1874 A brief morality play in verse.
It Puzzled Him, 1913 A young husband scratches his head.
Maud Miller A Chuckle from 1874. This one is in "German dialect." Such dialect poetry & verse seems to have been quite popular during the latter 19th century. Whole books were published with items in various accents such as German, "Negro," Spanish, Irish and others.
New Special Section
Harrison County, Mississippi Marriage Returns
Poetry
Dat's My Li'l' Boy, 1898 An example of "dialect poetry" popular around the latter 19th century.
Recipes
Chicken Griddle Cakes, 1913
Endive Salad, 1913
Olive Salad, 1913
Cheese Sticks, 1913
Opera Creams, 1901
Maple Ice Cream, 1913
Browse our Heritage Cookbook Selections! Where else will you find titles like Beer in America: The Early Years, 1587-1840, Dining by Rail: The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine, Silas Cully's Tavern Tales: Stories, Jokes, and Recipes from a Nineteenth Century Barkeeper, or Secrets of the Great Old-Timey Cooks: Historic Recipes, Lore & Wisdom?
New States
The Victorian Scrapbook
Harry Farmer (Part of the Rowland-Broiles-Farmer album)
Postcards
The Baker Hotel, Mineral Wells, Texas
The State Capitol, Sacramento, California
Free Graphics
1919: Lady's Shoe Fashionable footwear for flappers...
1919: Wicker Baby Carriage "Comfort, ease and elegance" for your baby!
My Families
In Memoriam: Cemetery Photos
Nope, they're not very good ones, but I had them so I thought I'd add them to this website.
Edmund Lilly Allen II My great-grandfather's younger brother
Jeptha Tackett Allen Son of my great-grandfather' younger brother
Gustavus Watts Allen I My great-grandfather
Victorian Scrapbook
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