SACRED TO THE MEMORYOFJARED BATESWHO DIED AUG. THE 6TH, 1800His widow, aged 24 lives at 7 Elm Street, has every qualification for a good wife and
The Old Country Pol Finishes His Speech
- From the Good old days, when bosses ran machines and the ward healers handed out the dough –OCP: And in conclusion, my good friends, remember
No Barbed Wire Today
- Heard on a stagecoach:Salesman: Nice day today.Rancher: Yep.Salesman: You going west?Rancher: Yep.Salesman: I sell barbed wire.Rancher:
Sir Thomas More on Susan Blake
Good Susan Blake in royal estateArrived at last at Heaven’s gate.- His epitaph at her urgent entreaty. Two years later, they broke up and he
Tombstone in Hartfield, MA, 1771
Beneath this stone, a lump of clay,Lies Arabella Young,Who on the 21st. of May,Began to hold her tongue.
Tombstone in Hollis, NH
CYNTHIA STEVENS1742 – 1776Here lies Cynthia, Steven’s wife,She lived six years in calm and strife,Death came at last and set her free,I was glad
Frontier Advertisement
One good deer rifle for a woman. - Ad in Cloverland (MI) newspaper.
Lord George Counts His Audience
- Another chestnut from the continuing sage of our noted playwright, Lord George Bernard Noel Shakespeare Coward –Producer (peaking through the
Tombstone at Westminster Abbey
Life is a jest, and all things show it;I thought so once and now I know it.- on John Gay’s tombstone, said to be written by himself.