big shoes, vacation plans, henry clay gossip

1885-07-23 - Farmer & Mechanic

  • Mr. Samuel Watkins and family at Asheville
  • Miss Fannie Mills of Sandusky, OH, 22 years old, 125 lbs, and wears a size 29 shoe
  • There’s a reverend in Charlotte who wears a 35 – that’s 20 inches. (He’s 6'10")
  • Jackasses killed by lightning. Or they could have been mules.
  • Judge declares Mr. Haywood insane
  • Henry Clay & John Quincy Adams, Treaty of Ghent, something something
  • anecdote about how JQA was apparently always crying?