ON THE L.S.E. IN VERMILION
SHOPTALK: On the desktop this week is a pic of Liberty Avenue looking west from the corner of Grand Street c.1935. I wrote an article with this pic for the VPJ this week. When I was finished I was looking over the pic and noticed that there was some construction going on at the Walker garage. I don’t know (at the moment) if that was new construction or if some modifications were being made. This pic was captured during the waning days of the interurban – Lake Shore Electric. A few years after these shadows were captured the greatest electric railway on earth vanished. Eradicating the system was, in my mind, a very big mistake. Hindsight is, however, always 20x20.
QUIET WEEK: Things were rather quiet at the shop this past week. But there’s always plenty to do.
George Spreng began replacing woodwork in the apartment living-room (below). When it’s cleaned up it’ll look great.
PARADE:Sunday is the day of the big Wooly-Bear Parade in Vermilion. This year we’re going to have a float of sorts in the festival parade. It’ll just be my ol’ Chevy truck with a huge pic of Lester A. Pelton on a big folding sign on the bed. We also have big banners for the sides and doors of the truck. Our little neighbor girl and our great-great niece are going to hand out pamphlets about Pelton and the Print Shop to parade watchers.
FIVE-OH-ONE-CEE-THREE: It’s now official. The museum is officially a 501(c)(3) organization. Consequently, all donations to the museum are tax deductible. This is retroactive to November of 2011. (Thank heaven. Now I can fret about something else for months on end.)
VISITING HOURS: We are located at 727 Grand Street in Vermilion across the street from Vermilion's historic E&R Church. The museum is open Mondays, Wednesdays, and Sundays from 1 to 4 PM. On Saturday the museum it is open from 11 AM to 2 PM. A small admission donation of $3 (for adults) is requested. Children under the age of 11 will be admitted for free. Phone For Special Tours: 440-967-4555
We are not open on major holidays.
MEMBERSHIPS: Memberships to the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are now available. Funds generated will go toward the aforementioned renovations and maintenance of the shop.
If you would like to become a member the VNPSM you can send a check or money order to:
Vermilion Print Shop Museum727 Grand Street Vermilion, Ohio 44089
LIKE US ON FACEBOOK:Take the time to visit us on Facebook. Click on the badge below and stop in. We'll keep adding pix as we go along. If you're in the area come on in. I try to be there in the a.m. most everyday. If you see a Chevy Silverado in the drive with the plate "MRCOOKR" stop by and see what's cooking.
Historically,
"PAUL" by Joel Vormelker
PIC OF A PICTURE-TAKER Talking with Linwood resident Joel Vormelker a few weeks ago he told me that his late father Dave (a reporter-photographer) for the Cleveland Plain Dealer was a good friend with Paul Ludlow. The pic I have of Joel’s dad with his Graflex Camera was one of Paul’s portraits.
Last Sunday Joel stopped in the shop between raindrops and gave me this snapshot he (Joel) took of Paul with his trusty “Brownie” camera c.1953.
Paul is standing out front of his Division / Main Street studio across from Baumhart’s Drug Store. I like the background too. (Remember when there was two-hour angle parking on that street?)
What a great snap.
VERMILION’S W.R.C.: Prior to the American Civil War the role of women in our society was restricted to home management, bearing and rearing the children, and in rural communities running the family farm. Proper etiquette demanded that no proper lady should leave the house without a gentleman as an escort. When the war broke out those things changed. They had to. With fathers, husbands, sons and brothers marching off to war " women had to adapt to survive although they still could not vote nor sign legal contracts. And while they could not remain proper ladies and take up arms they did respond to both the call and the cause as nurses, laundresses, spies, cooks, Sanitary and Christian Commission workers, and writers for newspapers. As the terrible war changed the face of American life so too did it forever alter the role(s) of, women in our society.
In essence, the Woman's Relief Corps (WRC) was an auxiliary partner of the organization known as the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR 2-19-04). It was literally, to temper a well-worn phrase, "the mother" of all U.S. veterans’ auxiliary groups.
Vermilion's Chapter of the WRC is purported to be the first patriotic organization in the village. The H.G. Delker Woman's Relief Corps, Chapter 328, was organized on May 19, 1910. (Writers Note: The fact that this report comes very near the 94th anniversary of the group's charter is purely coincidental. Also note that it is the Woman's, not Women's, Relief Corps.)
Henry Delker was a local dry goods businessman. At one time associated with Mr. Englebry they operated a store in a building that would later house the Liberty Theater. Delker died on December 26, 1891 from a shoulder wound he received during the war. The musket ball that wounded him had not been removed and "had ruptured the diaphragm ... finally resting upon the sacrum ... " .
The WRC complimented the efforts of their partner GAR organization by providing food, clothing, and other sources of aid to veterans, their wives, widows, and other members of their families. Locally the group also raised funds to help care for children at the Xenia, Ohio Orphans Home, created an Army and Nurses fund, gave money to the Red Cross, and the Vermilion Drum and Bugle" band. They also provided playing cards, cigarettes, candy, and books to. the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Sandusky, and sent canned fruit, cookies, and funds to the Madison homw for elderly ladies. They provided the school, the All American Girls, the Village of Vermilion, and Vermilion Girl Scout Troop #1 with silk flags. At Christmas time they distributed boxes of fruit to shut-ins. On Memorial Day they planted 146 geraniums, a placed 146 flags on the graves of veterans in Maple Grove, Brownhelm, and Rugby Cemeteries. They also participated in parades on Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July, and the one celebrating Vermilion's Centennial (in the picture).
There were 29 charter members of this group. Hattie Baxtine was the first president, Hattie Cuddeback was the first secretary, and Carrie Boss was treasurer. By the year 1940 only 3 of the charter members remained; Hattie Cuddeback, Marcia Wittmer, and Carrie N. Boss. All the veterans in Vermilion's ~ GAR Post had, as remaining WRC members put it, "passed to the Land of Peace."
Throughout the years they always remained very true to their chapter's 6 motto, "We pledge allegiance to the flag a for which it (our Republic) stands." I- And as if following the lead in a line of ~ a W.w.I British Army ditty, "Old soldiers never die: they simply fade away", both the GAR and WRC just simply faded away. Both organizations now belong to history, but their spirit still abides in every veterans' organization in our little town and our great nation.
AGAIN - ANOTHER NEW (NOW OLD) THING: Initially I said that "This will not take the place of the "Macabre" stuff all the time - but will supplement whilst I search for more macabre stories to tell." But methinks that it's carved out a niche for itself and the "Macabre stuff" with have to find another.
So stay tuned...
Vol. IX - NO.20 – Oct 26, 1905.
Metzger and Gallagher were each sentenced to five years and Anthony to seven at the O.P. Monday for burglary.
Fifteen Italians from Huron took out first naturalization papers at the office of clerk of court Monday afternoon.
Seventy-six residents of Vermilion and vicinity are seeking to hold the Novelty Stove and Manufacturing company of Vermilion for depreciation of their real estate investments in the sum of $7,605.
They bought one or more lots at no less than $100 each in January 1903, in order to boost the movement of operating the plant of the named company. The agreement was that the stove company was to operate the plant for ten years, from July of that year. The plant ceased operations January, 1, 1904, and now the lots are said to be worth about ten cents on the dollar as farm property.
The total investments were $8,450, and the plaintiffs claim that the depreciation in value of their lots, makes the defendant company indebted to them for $7,605. The plaintiffs are seeking to hold the works.
The trial of the suit of Gustavus Dildine against the Lake Shore Electric, for $5,000 damages took up almost the entire day in the court of common pleas Wednesday. Dildine in bringing action alleges that he was put off an interurban car near Slate Cut, by a conductor named Harry Cole.
J.W. Gardiner fireman on the Nickel Plate was scalded quite severely at this place Monday afternoon by the bursting of a flue sleeve. He was in the act of putting coal in the furnace when the accident occurred and the hot water struck hi in the face and on the legs. Dr. Quigley was called and dressed the scalds and the man went ot Conneaut on the next train.
John Ritzenthaler, the Huron hold-up man, was formally declared insane Tuesday by a jury in the court of common pleas. The trail was held merely to comply with the law. Prosecutor Williams offered no defence, saying that he believed Ritzenthaler insane. Drs. Beatty and Parker both testified as to Ritzenthaler’s insanity and said that he was a degenerate.
Dr. H.C. Rutter of Columbus declared the Huron man afflicted with an insanity called “Paranola.”[sic] People so afflicted imagine that some one is attempting to persecute them> Ritzenthaler’s grandfather, an uncle and an aunt, all on his father’s side, died of insanity.
Ritzenthaler unquestionably was not insane when the crime was committed. This unusual condition according to Prosecutor Williams’ opinion, makes Ritzenthaler liable to prosecution, in case that he should again become sane.
The Vermilion ball team played the last game of the season Sunday. The game was hard fought and was won by Vermilion from N. Amherst by the score of 3 to 2. We received a communication relating to the game but too late for publication.
Governor Herrick will be at Vermilion Wednesday Nov. 1, ’05 at 10:40 a.m. and will stop for about fifteen minutes to address the voters. Governor Herrick will leave Cleveland at 8 a.m. and stop at all the towns on the L.S.E. between that city and Toledo which he expects to reach at 5:15.
It is expected that many men will be thrown out of work at the Ohio Company’s stone quarries by the introduction of five sandstone planers. Each machine does the work of twelve men. They were recently imported form England.
The teachers of our schools spent Monday visiting the Norwalk public schools.
McKellog’s clothing store was entered by thieves Friday night and three overcoats and two suits of clothes taken. Entrance was gained by breaking a rear window.
Rev. Black of Michigan succeeds Rev. Loose as pastor of the M.E. church.
Harry Redington is convalescing.
H. Harpster a former resident died at the home of his son F.J. Harpster last Wednesday aged 80 yrs. The remains were brought here for burial Friday.
Willie Holzhauer, aged 10, was found bleeding and unconscious under the L. S. & M. S. bridge on church street Tuesday evening. It is supposed he was running to his hoe and collided with one of the pretection [sic] fences built into the street by the ry. Co. cutting his face and knocking him down, his head striking on the stone walk and rendering him unconscious. Dr. Foster dressed the injuries.
Mrs. W.C. Heyman is quite sick.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Wideman Saturday, Oct 21.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Dalzell of Toledo are visiting relatives here.
Rev. Geo. M. Knapp preached his first sermon at the M.E. church here last Sunday.
Vernon comely broke his arm in two places Thursday while working on the docks.
Mrs. Frank Lavoo is suffering from an attack of quinsy.
[VV Ed. Note: Peritonsillar abscess (PTA), also known as a quinsy or quinsey, is a recognized complication of tonsillitis and consists of a collection of pus beside the tonsil in what is referred to as Peritonsilar space (Peri - meaning surrounding). It is a commonly encountered otorhinolarynogolocial (ENT) emergency. However, it has been shown to be safe to "wait and observe" as a mode of treatment. I thought you’d want to know all that.]
For some time past Vermilion has had a number of vacant houses, but a present the outlook is good for a house famine, as these homes are being rented by families of workmen in the Erie Wood Working co.’s factory. Let us welcome thee arrivals and make them feel at home in their new surroundings. If the factory is a successful venture, which we all hope it will be, others will also come and stay with us and make themselves a part of the community.
Ofttimes people who move to a town are made to feel that they are not welcome and this feeling is lasting and has its effects not only upon the people themselves, but gives the town the name of being inhospitable.
Let us welcome the stranger and if he is a worthy addition to the community we will not regret it; if is not we have done our duty.
The duplex Stamping works will also bring a number of strangers to town who may ultimately make their home here.
J.W. Leidheiser is on the sick list.
Chas. Horton was home for the lakes yesterday.
E.L. Coen spent several days this week at Gallipolis on business.
Myron Englebry is spending several days at home called here by the illness of his father.
A.D. Baumhart was present at a meeting of the officers and managers of the Toledo District Central Union Telephone co. at Toledo Saturday.
Farewell services were held at the M.E. church last Sunday evening. The program as announced last week was carried out. Rev. Rupert expressed his appreciation of the good feeling existing and the kind treatment he had received from the members of his own church as well as the pastors and members of the other churches and the people in general.
Wednesday the U.S. Lighthouse inspector visited the government property here.
It is reported that W.S. Bicknell of the L.S.E. will resign as president of the road Jan. 1st.
Rev. Dr. Chandler, for thirty years pastor of the First M.E. Church at tiffin died Monday.
Wm. Foreman, an aged resident of Norwalk and well know throughout this section died at his hoe there Friday night.
There is a beacon in he Arizona desert to guide travelers to a water hole. This is lighted at night, constituting a “light-house” several miles inland.
Henry T. Goebel, formerly a well-known businessman of Sandusky died Thursday at Denver, Col. The remains were brought to Sandusky for burial.
Joseph Torney, who is charged with the murder of Bert Lee at the rear of the Franklin Hotel Tuesday, was captured at Huron Wednesday. They quarreled over a bottle of whisky.
A barrel of salt is produced in the United States each your for every four inhabitants. New York is the leading salt producing State, the yield being one barrel for each inhabitant.
Mrs. Maybole of Wellington was seriously burned Friday morning and her son was considerably injured by the explosion of a lamp. Every effort was made to save the woman but she died Saturday.
A dispatch from Columbus states that with the exception of three cases in Hamilton county, the State is free from smallpox. The authorities credit vaccination with the stamping out of the disease.
Chas. Boos superintendent of the trolley lines of the Wallkill Transit Co. and a highly respected citizen of Middletown, N.Y. was arrested this week as a sneak thief and highwayman. He confessed to having led the double life for some time.
Edward Schilling of Cleveland was pronounced dead, overcome by natural gas, Sunday. He was taken to a hospital and after a few hours work and the injection of new restorative, Adrenalin, he revived and talked with his wife who had gone to the hospital to claim his body.
Capt. George Stone, aged 82, was stricken with apoplexy Saturday lies critically ill at his home on Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Capt. Stone has sailed the lakes for sixty years and enjoys the distinction of having been in charge of the boat that brought the second load of ore thought the locks of the Sault St. Marie.
Grandma Allan, as she is familiarly known in Elyria, celebrated her 104th birthday Friday. She was born in Pompton, N.J. and came to Ohio with her husband and five children when she was thirty-one years of age. She is a member of the W.R.C. of Elyria and is probably the oldest lady in the state. She is in feeble health but had a few callers on her birthday.
The 11-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Collett of Upper Sandusky picked up a signal cartridge along the Pennsylvania railroad track and desiring to see what was in it placed it on a stone and struck it with a hammer. The explosion, which followed, shook the surrounding buildings. A piece struck her in the eye blinding her and disfiguring her face and her sister had her hearing destroyed.
Frank Taylor of Axtel helped V. Leimbach with his butchering last week.
Mr. Adams has resigned as superintendent of the Ohio Quarry.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knittle called on V. Leimbach Sunday on their way to visit his brother at Russia.
A new milk cow for sale at V. Leimbach’s.
Hmmmmmm....
THEY RAN OKAGI’S: I am forever amazed by information forwarded me from various places on our planet about Vermilion and its townsfolk of yesteryear. The photo graph accompanying this piece is a beauty. It comes to me from a fellow named David Croll. Dave is a former Vermilionite who grew up in Vermilion, left in 1953, joined the U.S. Navy, made a career of it, and is now retired and living the life of a country gentleman in South Carolina. Dave is a cousin of Vermilionite Betty McMillen. She sent the picture to him, and he for warded an electronic copy to me.
The photo was taken sometime between 1946 and 1948. I take some liberty here and set forth the idea that the picture was captured in Mamarou Okagi's living room set against the south wall. I submit that this is Mr. Okagi's home because to the right there is a miniature of an oriental temple on a ornate cabinet in the background, and because of the leaded glass window on the wall behind the group. The window appears to be very much the same as one at the restaurateur’s former house on Exchange Street, I would add that during this particular time period I doubt that there were many people in town who would have had a miniature Japanese temple in their home.
Mr. Okagi owned and operated the Okagi Restaurant in downtown Vermilion for nearly 30 years. He advertised that the place was known. "from coast to coast". From my memories of the restaurant this was probably not too far from the truth. While I never ate there I have some very vivid recollections of the operation and of the lines of
people who came from afar to eat there in the summertime. My parents printed his menus at their print shop and an older brother and sister worked there, as did many of their friends. Today the restaurant building is the home of the Edward Jones Investments and the Flagstar Bank.
I really don't know what the occasion for this photo might have been but it is undoubtedly related to the operation of the restaurant. All of the people in the picture had something to do with the eatery or were close friends with Okagi. As I look at the faces and list the names a thousand untold stories cross my mind about those pictured here. Starting at the front row left to right:
Otto (Okagi Restaurant's Japanese chef); Russ Vasbinder (who eventually be came co-owner of the restaurant with Cecil Thomas), Nancy Tarrant (Emery), Paula Thomas (Cecil and Rose's young daughter), Mrs. Russell (Mary) Vasbinder, Eloise Marks (Tyren), Mrs. Paul (Eileen) Naegele, Mary Emmerick (Robinson), Cecil Thomas, Mrs. Ernest (Marie) Koppenhafer (behind Cecil).
Middle row: Philip Tarrant, Steve Martin (popular grocer; PJ 10-2-03) with his daughter Gerry, Clara Strehle Rosenkranz, Mr. Okagi, A.D. Baumhart (local druggist and entrepreneur PJ 11- 13-03), Mrs. (Francis) Baumhart, Mrs. Cecil (Rose) Thomas, Leonard and Betty Croll McMillen.
Back Row: Bob (Robert w.) Hoffman, Jim (James R.) Fitzpatrick, Russell Barr, Jim White (lived in the big house-3rd north of the Photojournal). Arnold Rosenkranz, Carl Koppenhafer, Harold Neiding (connected with fishing industry and eventually owned and operated Lake Erie Drive-in next to the bowling alley), Paul Naegele (a man of many talents).
The one person whose identity I'm not fully sure of is the young man in the mid left corner of the photo. I believe that it is Bobby (Robert) Enzor with whom numerous veterans in our community are well acquainted.
And one final note; Very few folks knew what became of Mr. Okagi after he left town. It is a mystery no longer. He settled in California and died at the age of 78 Oil Sunday, December 23, 1956 in Los Angeles, And thus did another chapter of yesterday in Vermilion comes to a close.
THE FIRE-LANDS: I found the following information re: the early inhabitants of our area to be extremely informative. Methinks you will also.
I am getting better at transcribing these passages so there are fewer mistakes. But I like to read as I go - and sometimes I fill in the blanks. So tread carefully this trail through yesteryear.
The following series will take thee to the townships south of Vermilion. Methinks you'll find this history quite fascinating.
…grew up to briars and bushes, and the fences and cabins passed into ruins.
In the spring of 1827, Coit re-surveyed the two sections, and sold the laud to the settlers, old and new, at the rate of two dollars per acre. New settlers came in, and those who had remained through the stampede began improvements in earnest, laying out roads, setting out orchards, etc., feeling assured there was no further danger of losing the product of those ten years of labor and hardship.
John Bowen, from Marion county, this State, was among these settlers. He married Christina Robinson and settled on lot twenty-three, section three, building his log house a few rods east of the site of his present comfortable home. Mr. Bowen built the second brick kiln in the township, and for many years prosecuted the business. This venerable couple have eight children, all living. Martha Jane, Agnes, John M., William K., Henry C., Sarah E., George and Melinda C.
Frederick Gorham came from Vermont, and with a wife and three children, settled on lot twenty seven, Norwich township, in 1828. This farm is now owned by David Nichols.
In 1830, the first section began to settle. Ebenezer Brown made a commencement on the lot now owned by A. F. Rulisson. Zachariah Burrell erected his log cabin on the lot afterwards owned by John Gunns. Ezra Prudeu and family, consisting of a wife and eleven children, came from the State of New York to Ohio, in 1831. He located on lot number thirty-six, where he remained until his death, in 1854. His wife had died, in 1849. Of the children, we are able to give the following: John, the eldest, married Ann Ennis, and lives in Toledo, Ohio. Silas married Sally Thompson; he lives in Michigan. Ezra, Jr., married Naomi Adaline Owen; he lives on lot thirty-four, section four. They have two children: Charles F., and Charlotte A. William married Maria Pratt, and lives in Indiana; and Jonas, who lives in Putnam county. The following children are dead: Mary, Elizabeth, Gabriel, Eugene, Benjamin and Rachel.
William Robinson, Sr., a native of Delaware, married Lytica Coleman, and in May, 1833, arrived in Norwich township. He settled on lot twenty-seven, in the second section. He lived here twenty-five years, and removed to Fitchville township, in this county, where he died August 10, 1861. Mrs. Robinson died the February following. The children of this couple are: James, Thomas, Christina, Martha, Anna, Huriah, John, Eliza, Jordon, Wesley and Aaron, who all grew to maturity. Seven are now living.
In the spring of 1833, Charles B. Niver, came from Seneca county, New York. He purchased six hundred acres of land in section one. On lot twelve of this purchase he built a log house and toward fall 1 returned east for his family, with whom he arrived in Norwich, about September 20, of the same year. His wife was Emily Moore. They have had five children: Laura Jane, who married Edward Knapp; she is not living. Marvin, who lives at home; John, who married Thalia Reed; he is also deceased. Albert E., who married Etta Green, and lives on the west part of the original homestead; and Mary who yet remains at home, Mr. Niver's first wife is deceased. His present companion was Prudence Douglass.
John Niver, a brother of the above, came to Ohio with the family. He remained about one year, and then returned to his eastern home. After two or three years he came again to Norwich, married Sarah White, and began life on the south part of the original purchase, where he still resides. He also lives with his second wife. He has seven children.
A short time after John began settlement, another brother, Dennis, came on. His wife was Marietta Parsons. They had at this time six children. He settled on the eastern portion of the tract where he still lives. The children now number nine.
Guy C. Boughton, of West Stockbridge, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, married Harriet Sprague, of Middlebury, "Addison county, Vermont. In 1815, he removed to Ohio, locating in Grafton township, Lorain county. Here the family lived some eight years, and then settled in Eaton township, same county. In 1834, they located in Norwich township, on lot thirty-eight. Three children were born prior to this date, viz: Axie, N. J. and Darwin who still lives on the old homestead, and with him the aged mother. Two children, Julia and Jefferson, were born in Norwich. The father died November 7, 1854.
In 1827, Nelson Pratt and two brothers, Parley P. and Orson (afterward prominently connected with Mormonism), came from Columbia county. New York, and located in Amherst, Lorain county. After two years. Nelson settled in Peru township, this county. In 1835 or '36, he became a resident of Norwich township, locating at, or near where is now Havana village. In the last named year, he married Finette, daughter of Frederick Delano, one of the pioneers. From this marriage one child, a son, was born, this was Edwin D., who married Elizabeth Slyer, and lives on lot thirty-four. Nelson Pratt has been three times married, as follows: Azubah Spalding, Marietta Ensign, and Mrs. Mary Ann Felton who died in 1872. Two children, daughters, were born of the second marriage.
Henry Niles married Lucretia Miner by whom he had eight children: Henry, Cyrus, Daniel, Sands, John H., Lucretia, Cyntha, Philura and David.
In 1799 or 1800, the family settled in Halifax, Vermont, where they remained until 1831. At this time they removed to Ohio, locating in Greenfield township in this county.
In the month of February 1834, they made a permanent settlement in Norwich township. This was on the farm now occupied by the widow and heirs of the son, John H. On the 20th day of the March following, while engaged in rafting logs on the millpond near his house, he fell into the water, and was drowned before assistance could reach him.
Excerpts from: The Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio; W.W. Williams - 1879 - Press of Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
LITTLE ANNIE @ THE LIBERTY THEATRE: Another flyer from the Howell and Eppler Families for the VNPSM. This one is when Mary Pickford starred as a girl of the slums in William Beaudine’s 1925 silent comedy-drama Little Annie Rooney (United Artists), set in New York's Lower East Side. Audiences found nothing unusual about 32-year-old Mary Pickford portraying a 12-year-old, and this became one of her more successful films.
Wow! I was unaware of the fact that the “silent: played at the Liberty.
• Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
• The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible,Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children,Cain, asked, “Am I my brother’s son?”
• Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.
• Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
• The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth.
• Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
• Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
• In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
• 9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
• Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: “Tee hee, Brutus.”
• Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
• Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
• In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
• Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.
• Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted “hurrah.”
• It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: After giving it much thought this link has been "put-down". During the last year most of the folks who used to use this page as a bulletin board have acquired their own and, consequently, no longer need this forum from "Views". I have, however, kept links (in the links section) to Larry Hohler's "Hope Homes" in Kenya - and to Bette Lou Higgins' Eden Valley Enterprises sites. They are historically and socially relevant projects. I suggest that you visit these sites on a regular basis to see "what's shakin'".
Persons interested in the history of the Lake Shore Electric Railway (which was the subject of a recent past podcast series) - "the greatest electaric railway system on the planet" may want to go to Amazon.com and purchase a book called "Images of Rail - Lake Shore Electric Railway". It was put together by Thomas J. Patton with the help of my friends Dennis Lamont and Albert Doane. It'd make a nice gift.
Another great book with Vermilion Roots is, "Grandmas’ Favorites: A Compilation of Recipes from Margaret Sanders Buell" by Amy O’Neal, Elizabeth Thompson and Meg Walter (May 2, 2012). This book very literally will provide one with the flavor of old Vermilion. And ye can also find it at Amazon.com. Take a look.
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